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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
211 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 11
YASS, Friday.—An unfortunate dispute over some selections, resulting in a desperate shooting affray, took place yesterday at Beremangra, Bookham, near Yass. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON SATURDAY morning last, says the Wide Bay and Burnett News, the miner named Hickey fell down the shaft at No. 6 Lady Mary. He was brought up alive and conscious, and upon being informed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONSIDERING the frequency of serious accidents of late, and the many casualties that are almost daily reported; considering, also, that the facilities for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An elderly woman named Mrs. Harman, feeling uneasy on account of her son's absence, ventured out last evening on to the wharf in quest of him. It appears young Harman lights the lamps on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD and fatal accident happened at the Duckenfield Colliery yesterday, the unfortunate victim being the underground overseer, Mr. James Cook. It appears that Mir. Cook was on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the inquest held on the deceased (James Cook) before the District Coroner, F. J. Shaw, Esq., at the Minmi Inn, it seems that the accident, which resulted so fatally, took place in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SYDNEY contemporary says:—A man named Murdoch was broken to pieces on some shafting at Mort's Dock and Engineering Association Works on Wednesday morning. It appears the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EARLY this week (reports the Tamworth News of Friday last) a man was jammed between the buffors of some of the trucks employed on the line near Currabubula, and had sundry ribs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This afternoon, the Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Hargrave, and Mr. Justice Manning, unanimously refused to grant the defendants a new trial in the action…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Murrurundi Times relates the following shocking occurrence:—"At Messrs. Murphy and Boyd's premises a powerful chaff cutting machine was being worked at a high rate of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the seamen of this vessel, whilst engaged in reeving a rope through the ring of the buoy to which the ship is moored in the Horseshoe, got his left leg jammed between the ship's cable,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cooktown, June 17.—On the evening of May 23, the steamer Khedive was approaching Penang lighthouse, when she collided with the Dutch steamer Coorwarts, bound from Batavia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A STREET accident (says the Frening News) occurred in the city this afternoon. A horse about to be harnessed to a vehicle bolted from the neighbourhood of the horse bazaars, opposite…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY, morning, while Mrs. Sexton, of King-street, was walking across her yard, she stepped on to a slab, which caused her foot to slip, and she fell and fractured both…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have received a letter from the mother of the boy who tell down the hold of the Ardencraig on Wednesday last, stating that the boy is 13 years old, and not 10, as stated, and that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday night last an accident befel Capt. P. Campbell, of the coasting brig Marie, under the following circumstances:—He had been on board the barque Fanny Fisher, which vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SAD accident happened in one of the drives at the Bulli coal mine yesterday morning, whereby a man named William Jones lost his life. It would appear that Jones, who was working in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A WOMAN named Margaret D[?] drunken state fell over the [?] yesterday afternoon. Water Police [?] Smith, on duty in the vici[?]ity at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY, at about 12 o'clock, whilst a party of "young gentlemen" were enjoying their usual quiet Sunday morning's stroll along the Southern Breakwater, one of them—a smoker—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MAN named Robert Oonsworth, whilst engaged in coal-trimming a vessel at the whar last Saturday, by some means fell over the combings of the hatch, striking himself on the side of the…
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