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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
107 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 6
YESTERDAY (Friday) another melancholy and fatal accident occurred at New Wallsend, by which a miner named David Brown, about 45 years of age, met with his death. The circumstances of the case, as told to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How little he thought iu the morning, When he rose with the early light, That his hours on earth were numbered— That he would be dead e'er night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident occurred at Minmi on Friday morning whereby a man named John Wilson was severely injured. It appears that the rope by which a train of loaded skips was being brought up the tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held before F. J. Shaw, Esq., J.P., District Coroner, at Tudor's Agricultural Hotel, Hamilton, on the 28th instant, respecting the death of a child named Ernest Carney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident occurred at this colliery on Saturday whereby a miner named James Richmond was severely injured. It appears that the unfortunate man was knocked down while at work by a mass of falling coal, which inflicted severe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another fatal boat accident happened on the River Derweut on Dec, 11th. Mr. E. J. Freeman, it appears, went out in the sailing boat Spray, accompanied by Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, December 25.—An express train on the Great Western Railway left the rails near Skipton. "The [?]arniages were precipitated into a canal, and thirty persons were killed…
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