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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 19
SIR,—It's an awful thing to die, and of all the forms in which death appears, it is scarcely possible to imagine one more appalling that that of the man who, falling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The body of a young man named John Carrington, much mutilated has been found on the railway line near Goulburn. He is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamer Sorata met with severe weather on the passage to Melbourne. She lost her bowsprit and foretopgallant mast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The attention now given to the case of the non-recovery of the passenger lost overboard from the steamer Maitland on the 1st instant, reminds me that the merit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Joseph Donnelly, fireman, on board the steamer Eclipse, has been drowned while trying to board the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT about 4.30 p.m., on Saturday, a serious accident happened on the tramway line at the junction of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets, Sydney. It seems that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Another tram-car accident has occurred. Mr. Leeder, of North Shore, has been injured at the back of his head and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Christopher Clarke, of Sydney, late of Cambewarra, has been drowned whilst bathing at Nowra…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday, shortly after midnight, a very serious if not fatal accident occurred on the railway line at the Abbot-street crossing, by which Mrs. Watson, the caretaker of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN old and respected settler named Thos. Mitchell was drowned close to his farm at Cameron's Creek, ten miles from Armidale, on Saturday afternoon. Mitchell had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man named Robert Hayes, aged 60, has been found drowned in a tank at Homebush. A lad aged six, named Frederick Monks,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle on-Tyne Chronicle of Dec. 28 says:—"On Thursday night great excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Pontypridd by an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Hunter, storekeeper, Tomora, has been missing some days. A storekeeper at Shellharbour has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The missing man, Hunter, from Temora, is not found. Webster, who was injured by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—William Tanner, a storekeeper, late of Carcoar, has boon committed for trial for fraudulent insolvency. The defendant failed in May, 1881, and had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The inquest on the body of Robert Hayes, found drowned in a tank near Homebush, was further adjourned for a week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—At the Central Criminal Court, James Moore, aged 24, has been sentenced to death for rape on a girl, aged 14, at Ashfield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious accident, the result it is feared of that spirit of recklessness for which miners are proverbial, and which has led to the loss of three lives, occurred on January…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred at Bradford on the morning of December 23, by the fall of a mill chimney, whereby nearly 30 work people were killed and about 40…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Ernest Holdsworth (son of Mr. R. Holdsworth of the firm Holdsworth and Evans, solicitors, whilst bathing at Manly,…
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