Accident to the Albury Coach
The Albury coach was upset at Germantown to-day. There were seventeen passengers in at the time. Father O'Donohoe was much hurt, but Fathers…
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Accidents, 1880
261 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 14
Serious Railway Accident
An accident occurred at Parramatta today. Guard Aitken, of the Western mail train, whilst trying to gain the brake van, struck the verandah posts, and fell…
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YESTERDAY the northward-bound mail train was delayed for about forty minutes at Greta, in consequence of a mishap that occurred to the engine. A supplementing…
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YESTERDAY morning a workman engaged at a hand circular saw in a workshop at the rear of the Royal Hotel, corner of Lake Road, mot with a nasty accident…
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YESTERDAY a painful accident happened at the Waratah Smelting Works, to a smelter named Thomas Williams. By some means he got the third finger of his left hand…
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YESTERDAY, the dead body of the second mate of the American barque Columbia, which left for Mazataban, Mexico, on the 16th inst., was discovered floating in the…
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ON Thursday last, Mr. Hardwick, manager of the Anvil Creek Colliery, narrowly escaped suffocation, owing to a portion of the brattice cloth in the tunnel…
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YESTERDAY morning, about 9 a.m., a miner, named J. Williams, had his right leg fractured by a fall of coal in the Newcastle C. M. Co.'s Pit. He was attended…
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YESTERDAY, about 4 o'clock, a young man nrmed Thomas Farrar, of Tighe's Hill, when driving a baker's cart belohging to Messrs. Hubbard and Lott, at the corner…
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WE learn that the miner, Jacob Williams, who unfortunately had his leg fractured on Tuesday, by a fall of coal in the Newcastle C. M. Company's pit, died about…
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A BUNBURY correspondent sends us the following:—A gallant rescue of a child was effected on Thursday, 1st April, by William Hislop, at Bunbury,…
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YESTERDAY forenoon, a child belonging to Mrs. Casey, residing in Toohey's Lane, Bolton-street, had a narrow escape from drowning. It appears that the child, who…
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A dreadful accident has occurred at New York. The roof of the Gilmore Gardens Theatre (a favourite place of resort and amusement) fell in during…
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A man named Ephraim Coles, 18 years of age, was drowned this morning in the Tumut River, which is flooded from the late heavy rains. Coles, it appears, went…
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ON Saturday night, at about 9.30 o'clock, a very serious accident, which certainly might have been attended by far more serious consequences, occurred to a lad…
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ON Tuesday, the 27th ult. a minor named George Orwin, aged 50, residing at Anvil Creek, sustained some severe injuries. Whilst taking but some props, the top…
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YESTERDAY, whilst Alfred Pepper, and Isaac Crocket were out in a small boat in the steamers channel, pleasure fishing, their boat accidentally capsized, and the…
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ON Saturday forenoon a serious accident to a young man named George Cowan, whilst riding towards the A.A. Company's bridge. His horse, having taken fright,…
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SHORTLY before 7 p.m. on Saturday a sad accident occurred near the Newcastle Railway-station, resulting in the loss of an arm to a porter, or…
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OUR Cooranbong correspondent telegraphed us yesterday evening, as follows:—"The ketch Sea Bird, bound to Sydney from Lake Macquarie, capsized to-day off…
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