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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1880

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A Ketch Capsized off Lake Macquarie. A Man Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1880 · page 2

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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The Recent Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1880 · page 2

IN reference to the late accidents recorded in our last issue, it may be stated that the injury to the youth Cowan consisted of a compound fracture of both bones of the…

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Fatal Mine Accident. DENVER, Col., March 8, 1880

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1880 · page 4

A DISTRESSING accident occurred in the Bent County mine, near Central City, Gilpin county, at noon to-day, whereby two men lost their lives and several…

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Remarkable Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 May 1880 · page 2

WHILE a young lady in Arthur-street was working a sewing machine yesterday morning (says the Wellington Times, of April 27th), the needle suddenly broke off…

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Accident to Earl Belmore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 May 1880 · page 2

THE Fermanagh Farmer's Journal of February 26th states:—"On Friday morning Earl Belmore felt himself unwell, and went to his family medicine chest…

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Terrible Accident at a School Exhibition. Two Hundred Persons Precipitated to the Story Below

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 May 1880 · page 4

THE little village of Lincoln, about two miles from this town, situated in Lancaster county, Pa., was thrown into a terrible state of excitement…

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The Late Accident at Raspberry Gully. Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 May 1880 · page 2

THE district coroner (C. B. Ranclaud, Esq.) concluded an inquest yesterday at the Lambton Court House, on the body of Thomas Campbell, who died through…

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The Late Fatal Accident at Raspberry Gully

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 May 1880 · page 2

IN the leading columns of this journal on the 21st August, 1879, we pointed out the necessity there was on the part of the Government, for preventing, as…

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TELEGRAMS. Extraordinary Escape from Drowning SYDNEY, Wednesday, 10.30 a.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1880 · page 2

MR. KING, well known in Newcastle, as second mate of the steamer Kembla, met with an almost unprecedented escape from drowning early this morning…

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Sad Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1880 · page 2

A SAD accident, which has since been attended with fatal consequences, happened near Largs, three miles from East Maitland, on Tuesday last. A fine lad, named…

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The Late Accident at Noufreugh

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 May 1880 · page 2

MR. LACKEY informed Mr. W. C. Browne, on Wednesday night, in the Assembly, that inquiry was being made in order to ascertain whether the case of Geo. Gore,…

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Accident at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 May 1880 · page 2

WE are informed of a painful accident that recently occurred at Hamilton to a child named Matilda Jones, aged five years, daughter of Mr. George Jones, of…

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Accident with a Dynamite Cap

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 May 1880 · page 8

ON Tuesday last (states the Southern Argus) a young man named Charles Bates met with an accident at Lakeside, near Milang, by which he has…

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Another Narrow Escape from Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1880 · page 2

ABOUT one o'clock a.m. yesterday, whilst senior-constable Finnegan was on duty in Hunter-street, two men named John Howden and John Boyd, who were in an…

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Terrible Accident at Maitland. West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1880 · page 2

A frightful accident happened to a young lad, named Warbrook, at East Maitland to-day. He was riding on a dray loaded with two tons of stone, when…

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Sad Accident at Wellington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1880 · page 2

WELLINGTON, 9.30 p.m.—A sad accident has occurred hero to mar the pleasure of the railway opening. A railway porter named Eveningham, a married man,…

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LOCAL & GEN[?] Fatal Accident at Na[?]

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1880 · page 2

A LAD, named Henry Clinton [?] from his horse near Narrab[?] and was so frightfully about the head that he die[?]…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1880 · page 2

A TELEGRAM in yesterday's S. M. Herald states: A frightful accident took place on the railway line at Lithgow, on Wednesday afternoon. A shunter named Richard…

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Another Fatal Accident on the Tramway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1880 · page 2

ABOUT a quarter-past 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon a young lad, 12 years of age, named William Davis, whose parents reside at Surry Hills, lost his life at the…

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Accident to the Wotonga

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1880 · page 3

ON the arrival of the Kembla, yesterday morning, Captain Skinner promptly allayed any anxiety being felt, as to the non-arrival of the Coonanbara steamer at…

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