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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
233 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 12
SIR,—I noticed a paragraph in your Saturday's issue referring to the death of Mr. J. H. Hubbard's horse. Your informant could not have witnessed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRAIDWOOD, Saturday.—The over-loading of a mail coach (a frequent evil hereabouts) has resulted [?] a serious mishap. The wheel of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A serious accident has happened the racehorses Wheatear and Sir Oliver, which will prevent them filling their race…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—During the inquest on the body of a man killed in Pitt-street, the flooring of the room in which the jury were sitting gave way, and the corpse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Miss Black, a school teacher at Orange, has been severely burnt, through her clothes igniting whilst passing the school fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday afternoon, his Lordship the Bishop of Newcastle, Mrs. Pearson, and the groom were driving from Tomago towards Hexham, and while taking a sharp turn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR Wallsend correspondent writes:—"I request to chronicle another fatal accident yesterday morning, to an unfortunate miner William Peacock, who, while at work in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. RANCLAUD, District Coroner, concluded an inquest yesterday morning at James' Hotel, Onebygamba, on the body of Henry Parkinson, aged 13, that had been found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SHOCKING accident recently befel Mrs. John Bulmer, residing at Elderslie, near Branxton, the patient having since been under the care of Dr. Williams, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man, named Jas. Heron, while getting out of a Botany tramcar whilst in motion, fell and had both legs crushed. Two others, also getting out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT length there seems to be a reasonable chance that the lamentable and ever increasing number of fatal accidents in coal mines occurring not only in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON arrival from Sydney yesterday morning of the steamer Morpeth, a sad and fatal occurrence was made known; viz., that one of her passengers, Mr. Alfred Thomas, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A serious tram collision occurred this morning. While the tram cars from Randwick were standing at the corner of Liverpool and Elizabeth streets a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—This morning John Sheedy, an engine-driver, employed on the tram-lines by the Government, was brought upon custody,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A collision occurred at 9 o'clock last night between the steam collier Woonoona, inward bound, and coal-laden steamer Saxonia, outward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sad and fatal accident occurred at Parkes last Monday evening. Mr. W. K. Barrell Wright, a railway surveyor, was returning alone to his camp about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Saturday. — The case against John Sheedy, the engine-driver, was concluded at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. RANCLAUD, District Coroner, held an inquest yesterday on the body of a child named James Henry Glass, who had been drowned at North Waratah on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE truthful adage that coroner's inquests never come singly in Newcastle was once more borne out yesterday afternoon. At a quarter to 3 p.m. the police were informed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ABOUT 11 o'clock yesterday morning a terrible accident happened to a workman, named Alfred Betty, employed in the Harbours and Rivers Department, Bullock…
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