Sad Case of Drowning at Sea
THE passage of the screw collier Phœbe, Captain Sutherland, which left Newcastle for Sydney on Friday night, was marked by a sad accident, resulting in the death…
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Accidents, 1881
214 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 11
Serious Mining Accident
A SERIOUS mining accident occurred on Saturday at the Ellenborough claim, Eaglehawk, Bendigo. A miner named Thomas A'Beckett had charged a blast,…
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WE (Tonterfield Star) learn from a correspondent that a shocking accident took place at Summerhill, near Maidenhead, last week. It appears that a man named…
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A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Messrs. Vickers Sons, and Co.'s Riverden Steel Works, Sheffield. At 3 o'clock thirty labourers were dragging a large…
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YESTERDAY afternoon a young man, named Frederick Bruce, was brought to the Hospital suffering from a severe lascerated wound in the triceps of his right…
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ON Thursday a miner named Gilchrist, met with a nasty accident at the Hamilton pit. A fall of coal struck him on the thighs, inflicting painful, but not serious…
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LAST week (says the Bonalla Standard) a frightful accident happened to a little girl, five years of age, named Thompson, living at Bundalong. The mother of the…
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A BUGGY accident, which might have ended with serious results, occurred at Islington the other afternoon. It appears two young ladies, who reside at Tighe's…
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YESTERDAY morning an accident happened to a labourer, named Charles Gardner, employed at the Railway Workshops, Honeysuckle Point. He was…
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AN inquest was held on Wednesday morning on the body of Aaron Solly, who was run over by the Holdfast Bay train on Tuesday morning. The unfortunate man…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—A serious accident occurred in Clarence-street on Saturday morning, about 8 o'clock. A constable named James Hawkins, of No. 1 station,…
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ON Saturday evening an accident occurred at Wolfe-street crossing, which, although not fatal, resulted in an old man, named Charles Wilson, losing the…
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ON inquiry at the hospital yesterday we learned that the patient, Charles Wilson, who had his leg out off by a railway engine at Wolfe-street, on Saturday night,…
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SHORTLY before midnight yesterday Henry Shearston, a stonemason was brought to the hospital, suffering from a severe crushing of one of his legs from the…
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YESTERDAY a young man named Joseph Rowe, residing at Hamilton, met with a nasty mishap whilst out shooting parrots. By some means he was unfortunate…
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ON Wednesday a painful accident occurred to a young child of Mr. Henry Sullivan, of upper Newcomen-street. By some means, whilst at play, one of its little…
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IT was currently reported in town late last night that Mr. Richard Mayo had been thrown from his horse in Maitland and killed. We give the rumour for what it is…
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ON Saturday a fine little boy aged three years, son of Charles Outram, a miner, was drowned in a water-tank. He was supposed by his mother to have been…
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A VERY sad accident, which, it is feared, cannot but end fatally, happened to a stalwart miner named John Somerville, aged thirty-three years, unmarried, and a…
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A SERIOUS mishap befel Mr. Walter Fennell, last evening, through his horse falling whilst proceeding from Wallsend to Cooranbong. Mr. Fennell was rendered…
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