Boat Accident
ON Sunday morning, the Ethel (dingy), the property of Mr. Robert Talbot, was being sent from the Heads, Lake Macquarie, to compete at the regatta, yesterday. The…
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Accidents, 1882
233 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 12
LOCAL & GENERAL. Chapter of Accidents
YESTERDAY'S festivities, as might have been expected, brought to light their series of mishaps. A serious, and it is feared an eventually fatal accident, happened to…
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ON Monday morning a Maitland resident, named Thomas Nott, while bathing in the breakers on the Newcastle beach, narrowly escaped drowning. Getting amongst the…
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YESTERDAY, about 9 a.m., a fatal accident happened to a miner, named William Kuhn, while working in the Ferndale Colliery. While removing a lump of coal a large fall…
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LONDON, January 3.—The roof of a building for public amusement fell in at Ohio during a festival, killing twelve and injuring one hundred persons…
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AN inquest was held yesterday morning, at Mr. Morris' Hotel, Tighe's Hill, touching the death of William Kuhn, who was killed by a fall of coal in the Ferndale Pit on the…
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DURING the holiday week the following accident occurred in this vicinity:—A child of Mr. Evan Thomas' fractured the right forearm, by falling of a cart. Mr. S. Burgess,…
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A SAD and fatal accident occurred at Kinchela Creek, Central Kempsey, on Tuesday. Two lads named Saunders, aged eleven and seven years, were out keeping redbills off…
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AT the ladies' bathing place on Friday a narrow escape from drowning occurred, whereby a young lady, Miss Kate McEtee, nearly lost her life. She fainted on a rock,…
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YESTERDAY morning a boy named Davis, aged about ten years, and residing up Tooke-street, was working at a lathe at Mr. Miller's blacksmith's shop in…
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OUR Lambton correspondent writes:—Yesterday, a fine little boy, three years of age, son of Mr. Robert Metcalfe, fell into a tank at the rear of an empty house in…
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YESTERDAY evening the youth, Davis, who had his seventh cervical vertebr dislocated by a machinery accident at Miller's black-smithy, Darby-street, died from the result…
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A SERIOUS accident was recorded yesterday evening. A son of Mr. Boyd, butcher, of Wickham, was said to have been thrown from his horse, and seriously, if not fatally,…
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ON Friday morning, at about 3 o'clock, a labourer named Hanson, a Government employee, residing in Williams-street, Hamilton, was severely injured by a trolly…
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ON Sunday last, about one o'clock, a sad and painful accident befel a fine little boy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dyer, of Bullock Island. Whilst playing about the…
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LONDON, January 14.—A terrible railway collision has occurred between Albany and New York. Twelve members of the Legislature (who had been attending…
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ALBURY, Monday.—A man named Macpherson, while intoxicated, placed one of his arms into the cage of the lions belonging to Wilson's circus, now at…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A boat accident happened yesterday afternoon, whereby a young man named Brennan, an engineer, lost his life. Neither of the bodies of the…
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ON Saturday last the son of Mr. Dudley, residing at the Bluff, met with a painful accident. He was climbing a tree when he fell, the lower portion of his abdomen…
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A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Albury on Tuesday night, resulting in the death of three sisters. Two young women, Mary Ann Pastor[?]dlla, aged 19, and Eliza…
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