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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
233 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 12
SIR,—In your issue of the 2nd inst., appears two letters having reference to the above subject. The request made by Mr. Price, the Wallsend miners secretary,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRAFTON, Monday. — An accident of a serious nature has just been reported from Copmanhurst. Three men, named Lobb, Corcoran, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MOTHERS of families, or those who have charge of young children, are often taken aback and unnerved by a cut or a fall or some misadventure…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, September 4.—News has been received of a terrible railway accident, which took place on Saturday in the Grand Duchy of Baden. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man named Sylvia Roderick was killed yesterday at a building in course of erection in Kent-street. It appears the deceased was working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR Gunnedah correspondent informs us that a shocking and fatal accident happened at the deviation, about four miles from Boggabri, on Monday last, about 1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A married couple have been burnt to death in a hut on Statham's farm, near Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, September 18.— The passenger steamer Asia has foundered on Lake Ontaria, America. A hundred lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Arthur Phillips, day clerk, Darling Harbour Railway Station, on leaving for home at 9 o'clock on Friday night, with the day's takings,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following beautiful ballad of the drowned girl on the Cheshire sands was written by the Rev. Charles Kingsley, the author of "Alton Locke," "Yeast," "Amyas Leigh," etc.:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Walter Falls, passenger to Sydney, per Coonanbara, fell overboard when off Lake Macquarie. It is supposed that he slipped from the paddle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TELEGRAM to the Evening News, dated Cootamundra, Monday, states that a very sad and fatal accident occurred on the railway line on Friday evening. As four fitters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A BOAT accident occurred in the Yarra on Sunday afternoon, which resulted in the loss of two lives. Three young men, named respectively George Woods, 24 years, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UPON further inquiry we have been enabled to gain some additional particulars in connection with the gallant rescue from drowning which took place off the rocks on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A YOUTH named Sydney Matthews, 17 years old, in the employment of Mr. J. Savage, plumber, of Singleton, was accidentally drowned, on Saturday morning in the river,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The barque Iris has arrived at Adelaide from Newcastle, in charge of her chief officer, Captain John McDonald having been washed overboard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM our telegrams the painful news will be gleaned of the death by drowning, of Captain John M'Donald, of the barque Iris. The vessel left Newcastle for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD case of drowning occurred in the river about a mile and a half from Gunnedah on Tuesday (says the Advertiser). A man named Grigg, a produce and fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The chief officer of the barque Star of the Mersey, Mr. John Carolan, while returning to the ship at Rountree's Dock, fell between the, d[?]ck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — James Murray seward of the steamer Victoria, fell down the bold twenty-three feet, and fractured both his legs…
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