Accident
A PAINFUL accident happened on Saturday night to a boy named Box, employed at Mr. Jesse Ireland's, Hunter-street. The lad had occasion to get a bag of flour,…
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Accidents, 1880
261 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 14
The Sophia R. Luhrs Accident
In reference to this casualty we publish the following extract from our New Zealand files:—Discovery and survey of the rock. Captain Edwin, R.N., and Captain Fairchild…
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In another column will be found a report of an inquest held on Friday, March 5th, on the body of HENRY WHITTON, who lost his life in the Bulli…
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AN inquest touching the death of Henry Whitton, at the Bulli Colliery, on Tuesday last, was instituted on the following day by the Coroner for the district (Mr. E. F…
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DURING the course of a discussion at the Borough Council on Monday evening, a matter of some importance was briefly alluded to by Mr. Alderman Thorn, when…
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A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the night of the 3rd February, when a special train crashed into an ordinary one near Clichy, killing 22 persons and severely…
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As the mail train last night was approaching Newcastle, and was in the vicinity of the A.A. Company's bridge, the engine came into contact with a straying horse…
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A lumper, named Garland had his leg fearfully crushed to-day, whilst discharging a portion of a locomotive from the ship Duntrune…
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A SAD occurrence took place at Port M'Donnell on the night of March 15 (says the South Australian Register) by which the masters of the schooners Lily and Windward lost their lives…
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ON Sunday evening last, George Craddock, a miner belonging to the Anvil Creek Colliery, was riding home, and when in the neighbourhood of Greta he…
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LAST evening, previous to the steamers leaving for Sydney, a man named John M'Cormick, through some cause or other, fell overboard at the steamer wharf. It…
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The inquest on the jockey, Clarke, is to be held to-morrow…
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THE friends of Mr. William Breckenridge will learn with regret, that he was thrown from a horse at Clarence Town, on Thursday last, and received injuries of…
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THE City Coroner held an inquest on Wednesday morning, at his offices in Hyde Park on the body of James Clarke. Deceased was about 18 years…
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THE inquest on the remains of the jockey, James Clarke, was continued by the City Coroner, at his office, on Thursday morning. Constable Smith…
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ON Saturday afternoon a case of drowning, seldom exceeded in painful details, occurred at Catherine Hill Bay, at the Lake Macquarie Heads, whereby a youth,…
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Launcelot Watson, of the Prince Charlie No. 1 claim, was accidentally shot by a friend named Ritchie yesterday morning. The shot lodged in the lower part of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident at Adelaide. ADELAIDE
There was great excitement at Adelaide this afternoon on receipt of the news of a railway accidents, which happily proved less serious than was expected. The…
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A fatal accident has occurred on the railway line at Riverston. James Butler, aged between sixty and seventy, and residing at Webb's Creek, Hawkesbury, was…
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ON Saturday last, a boy named Thomas Palmer, whose parents reside at Hamilton, met with a serious accident. He had climbed up behind a cart,…
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