Death by Drowning at Hexham
JOSEPH BATTY, a boiler-maer in the employ of Messrs, J. and A. Bown, yesterday met with his death by rowning at Hexham, about 3 o'clock yesterday…
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Accidents, 1882
233 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 12
Disastrous Dance.—Ten Persons Killed and Sixty Injured
ACCORDING to advices just received in Liverpool from Cleveland United States, it appears that a frightful accident occurred at Shanesvill, in Ohio…
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GRAFTON, Friday.—A man named Jac Hannah, a cane-cutter, was on the corporation wharf when, without the slightest notice, he took hold of a little boy, son of…
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THE body of the man found floating in the town reach of the Brisbane River on Saturday afternoon, 18th inst., is supposed to be that of a man named Lucas, who…
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SYDNEY Monday.—A pilot boat upset at Port Macquarie. Pilot Kingsford was rescued, but a boatman named Page was drowned…
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AN accident which might have resulted more seriously than what it did, occurred on Tuesday afternoon last, to a carter named John Croft, in the employ of Messrs…
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IN reference to the above paragraph, which appeared in our issue of yesterday, we beg to state, in justice to Mr Croft, that we were wrongly informed, and at the same…
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NEWS was received by the Port Jackson authorities on Wednesday night of the wreck of the well-known creating schooner Prima Donna, and the loss of all hands except the…
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A PAINFUL mishap befel a man named Patrick Russell, employed on the Fortification Works, Allan's Hill, yesterday morning. He was struck by a sudden fall of…
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ON Wednesday a serious accident occurred to two little boys named David McKellar and Frederick Siefort, aged respective 8 and 6 years, at the corner of Montague and…
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On Thursday last (writes our Lambton correspondent) a valuable horse fell into an open tank on Mrs. Lunn's premises. Constable Robinson, Mr. J. Henderson, and…
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LONDON, April 8.—A fatal collision has occurred off Capo Finistere, between the mail steamer Douro and a Spanish steamer. Both vessels foundered, and…
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A SHOCKING accident, resulting in the loss of throe lives, occurred on the New River, near Invercargill, New Zealand, on the 19th March, The otago Daily Times reports that…
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A DISTRESSING accident happened in Hobson's Bay (Victoria), on Sunday, by which two men, James Newton, a guard on the St. Kilda railway, residing at Sandridge,…
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ON Thursday afternoon an accident happened to a young man named Drills, employed on the pit top at the Co-operative Colliery. Drills was engaged in filling one…
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A FATAL boat acccident occurred at Black wall on Friday. It appears that a fishing boat containing two men, named William Vaughan and Joseph Madene (the latter…
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A WALLSEND miner, named William Rodenbury, met with a sad accident on Saturday night. He and some of his mates were on a boating and shooting excursion…
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A SLIGHT collision happened yesterday morning off the port, between the steamer Kembla and the tug Goolwa. The Kembla's bow by some means struck the Goolwa's…
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SIYDNY, Tuesday.—At the Volunteer Encampment in Melbourne, a shell from a sixty-eight-pounder exploded, and two men were nearly killed…
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THE Bendigo Independent furnishes the following particulars of fatal railway accident on Good Friday:—" A shocking railway accident occurred on the railway line…
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