The Accident to the Glanworth
A passenger by the Glanworth, who was on board at the time of the recent accident near Bowen, states as follows.—"The steamer struck at 4.30 p.m. on the 18th instant. Captain Buttrey was…
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Accidents, 1885
511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 26
Deaths by Drowning
BOURKE, Wednesday.—A child 15 months old, the daughter of W. Holmes, locally known as "Billy the Fisherman," was found drowned in a well in a…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A man, name unknown has been drowned at Concord. A man named Peter Hogan, aged twenty. six, was drowned while bathing at Bronte,…
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Part of the crew of the steamer Magdeburg, of West Hartlepool, were landed at Salcombe, Devon, on Nov. 14, the vessel having been sunk after collision with another ship off Portland. About…
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A SERIOUS accident happened on Wednesday to a well-known official at the Central Police Court, Sydney, Mr. Henry G. H Hutington. He went into the court in the…
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A MARRIED woman named Isabella Lyons living at 4 Gresvenor terrace, off Phelps-street, Sydney, was taken to the Hospital suffering from a terrible accident which…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A young man named John Blake, a son of the late Judge Blake, fell off the steamer Spirit of the Dawn, and received a terrible…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—A carter named Thomas Russell, twenty years of age, while driving a load of bricks in Redfern this afternoon, fell under the…
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MINMI, Tuesday.—A boy named Ramsay met with an accident at Minmi to-day. A horse kicked him. He was hanging on by the animal's tail coming…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Huntingdon, who recently met with a serious accident at the Central Police Court, is recovering, but he will not be able to…
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MINMI, Wednesday.—Another boy was kicked by a horse at the Minmi pits to-day. His upper jaw was badly smashed…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The brother of Mr. Paterson, a coal merchant of Melbourne, has been killed by a number of trucks going over him at Spencer-street…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man named Andrew Connell, who was working at the new Graving Dock, Cockatoo Island, yesterday, was seriously injured by a large…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Howard, a railway porter at Mulgrave, was killed yesterday whilst spragging a truck…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The man, Andrew Connell, who was injured by a fall of stone at the new Grating Dock, died in the hospital yesterday. The jury returned a…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Captain Gark, of the barque Mary Ogilvie, had one of his legs broken at the Grafton wharf yesterday, by a case of galvanised iron falling on it…
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PARRAMATTA, Monday.—Mr. Hugh Taylor, M.P. for Parramatta, has been kicked in the abdomen by a horse. His injuries are considered serious…
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SYDNEY, Monday,—A number of visitors to the s.s. Austral had a narrow escape from accident. A gangway from the shore to the vessel broke, whilst crammed with…
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YESTERDAY morning between 11 and 12 o'clock, a lad, the son of the master of the s.s. Express, was passing from that vessel to the shore, when by some means his foot…
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WE have to record the tragic and sad end of poor James Solway, of Tighe's Hill, better known as Jimmy the dealer. On Monday morning, about half-past 3 o'clock,…
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