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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
105 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 6
A man, named Gilbert Ridley, had a narrow escape from death at the Wallsend Pit, on Monday, through a fall of coal, but, luckily, got off with a severe confusion of the left side and a wound on the palm of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The correspondent of the Argus telegraphs from Mary borough on the 14th instant:—An accident occurred to-day at the Duke and Timor mine, Chinaman's flat, by which two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest was held here yesterday on the bodies of the two men, John Lyons and Henry Kemp, who lost their lives through being run over by the No. 19 down passenger train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Tis hard to bear, With all one care; Poor Louie, she is gone To God on high,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT occurred at New Wallsend on Saturday last, by which a young woman named Miss Boyd lost her life. It appears that Miss Boyd, in company with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two boys, sons of Mr. W. Perry, baker, of this town, were engaged on Thursday afternoon in unloading some goods from a railway truck where it was necessary to unloose the door, which is formed of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Friday morning last occurred another of [?]es ap[?]lling accidents which have been of such frequent occurence at the Borehole Colliery within the last few years, whereby a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held in the Court House, West Maitland, on Monday, on the bodies of two boys, sons of Mr. Chas. Bowden, of Bolwarra. From the evidence taken at the inquest, it appears that the boys went into a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SEVEN men wore killed on December 3 at one of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company's pits. They were descending the shaft in the cage, which caught the ascending one. The whole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another of those accidents through careless driving, and one which endangered the life of the Rev. James Coutts, M.A., Presbyterian minister of Newcastle, occurred at the corner of King and Pitt streets shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An elderly man, named George Kirkpatrick, was very near being killed on Saturday last, at the Wallsend Company's new tunnel ground. A bank of earth, in a cutting, fell on him before he could get out,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday a lad was riding down a hill near the English Church, when the horse fell and rolled over the youngster, who received a great shaking, but was not hurt. This locality abounds with timber stumps,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young lad named Bul ner, aged 16 years, got his ankle severely injured at Minmi last Monday evening, through being caught between two skips. Dis Tarbolton and Nash were soon in attendance, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident happened to a young named Bulmer this week by which is ankle was put out through pushing some skips. Dr. Tarbalton was sent for and quickly relieved the sufferer, who is now doing as well as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident happened to a wheeler named John Banfield, yesterday afternoon, at the Co-operative Colliery, by which he received a rather [?] to one of his f[?]t…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Braidwood Dispatch regrets to hear that Mr. Robert Lowes, of Bell's Creek, has met with an accident near Eurobodalla which has terminated fatally. He with others was engaged feiling timber,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Saturdays issue we reported an accident to a boy named Edwin Moses, through being thrown from a horse and dragged by the stirrup in Dixon street, Lambton, on Friday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident occurred on Saturday at this colliery whereby a miner named George Peel as severely hurt. It appears that Peel and his brother John were working together in what is knows as a "narrow place." A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MELANCHOLY and fatal boat accident occurred in the Newcastle harbor on Saturday last, which culminated in the death by drowning, of a young man named John Chrichton,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PAPERS received by the Durham contain full particulars of the double collision on the Great Northern Railway at Abbots-Ripton station, midway between Huntingdon and Holme,…
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