Frightful Mining Accident
A TERRIBLE accident is reported by the Pleasant Creek News:—A most serious accident occurred on Wednesday morning, about 1 o'clock, at the No. 5 level…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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A TERRIBLE accident is reported by the Pleasant Creek News:—A most serious accident occurred on Wednesday morning, about 1 o'clock, at the No. 5 level…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A traveller, used in constructing the new Murray bridge, fell, fearfully crushing seven men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DREADFUL accident occurred at Echuca on Monday, at the works in connection with the new Murray bridge. One of the travellers on the Moama side of the river,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Sunday afternoon, two young men, whilst walking down the waterside below Bolisburn, Rookshope, observed the body of a man in the bed of the stream. On…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named John Neill died from injuries received through falling over a quarry at Pyrmont…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE inquiry held by the Local Maybe Board into the late fatal collision between the Maitland (s.), and the Champion, higher, was concluded at late her on Thursday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During a rowing contest on Saturday, Robert Bell, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Prince, Ogg, and Co., was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five men have died from the effects of the accident at the Echuca railway bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS morning Mr. Shiell, the City Coroner, held an inquest at the White Bay Hotel, Balmain, relative to the death of a child named William Alston Hutchinson, aged two years,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Robson, master lightship Bramble, of Sydney harbour, walked overboard this morning, and was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Local Marine Board was held yesterday to institute enquiries into the collision between the Newcastle Lighter Company's steam tug Pluto and the barque…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Hawkins, a wine and spirit merchant, was fined £50 and costs, at the Water Police Court, to-day, for selling a smaller quantity of liquor than is allowed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT the time the people were coming out of the various places of worship, yesterday, they were startled upon hearing that the dead body of Mr. Patrick Monahan (late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE deputation from Newcastle, consisting of the Mayor, Alderman Creer, Brooks, and Chapman, interviewed Mr. Parkes to-day respecting the site for a public cemetery, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST evening, at about seven o'clock, a g[?]st[?] gale came up from the south-west. At the tim[?] it struck the tent there were about 100[?] persons inside. As soon as Mr. Bailey ha[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident occurred at the South [?]lunes tribute mine on Thursday last. A man named Thomas Bonds was loading cage to send down the shaft, and stepped into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident of a painful nature, resulting in loss of life, occurred at the Cinnabar Mines, near Rylestone, last week. If appears that Allen B[?]zen, aged eight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident occurred on the Great Northern Railway line, yesterday, but which, we are pleased to state, was not attended with results fatal to human or other life. A dray,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MAN named Richard Cross, in the employment of to A. A. Company, met will a very serious accident yesterday, at about noon. It appears that he and a man named Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday last a young man named John Kelly, a miner at Little Rliver, who had been for some time subject to fits, was found by his brother lying in the fire at…
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