Accident to Too Too
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The racehorse Too Too while galloping yesterday, at Caulfield, fell and broke his thigh, and had to be destroyed. The horse was heavily backed for…
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Accidents, 1887
229 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 12
Alarming Railway Collision
A SERIOUS collision occurred on the line at Parramatta a few minutes before 8 o'clock on Sunday night, between a special goods train and a…
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ABOUT 6 o'clock yesterday evening Mr. George Hall, second son of Mr. Richard Hall, was severely injured by a cart. A horse and dray, loaded with chaff, was being driven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WASHINGTON, Tuesday. Another Railway Accident in America
A terrible railway collision occurred in Indiana to-day. An express train ran into a luggage train Four carriages, including a sleeping car,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. the Gabo-flora Collision
THE Marine Board has held a meeting to consider Captain Pain's certificate re collision between the Gabo and Flora steamers. After hearing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Steamship Cheviot. Great Loss of Life. Forty Persons Believed to be Drowned. Heavy Weather
ABOUT 9.30 o'clock yesterday morning, great consternation was caused in Newcastle by the receipt of a brief telegram announcing that Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Accident at Maitland
Catherine M'Namara was killed at West Maitland on Tuesday, through being thrown from a buggy into a creek. THE LAND Act.—A mooting of squatters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident to a Boy
EARLY yesterday morning, as a boy named Ernest Edward Fletcher, employed at Arnott's Biscuit Factory, was proceeding to his work, he swung…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident to a Russian War Ship
The flagship of the Russian squadron in the Pacific the Vladimir Monomach, has gene ashore at Vladivostock…
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ONE of the most shocking occurrences that have occurred in Newcastle for some considerable time, took place in Railway-street, near Darby-street, yesterday morning,…
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THE mutual friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dobree were divided in opinion as to which of the pair was most to, blame for the fact that they got on so…
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He will probably come and see me, said Wakeford. And Wakeford was right. On the following morning Captain Wynne came down to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident in Burwood Mine. Inquest at the Junction
MR. GEORGE C. MARTIN, J.P., District Coroner, held an inquest yesterday morning on the body of a miner who was fatally injured in the Burwood mine the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Train Near Gosford
ON the return of the last train for Newcastle from the land sale of Narrara township, Hogan's Brush, near Gosford, on Saturday last, the locomotive attached to the train,…
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A MOST shocking accident, which it is hoped will prove to be without blame to anyone, occurred about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon on the tram-line near the A.A. Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Tram Fatality. The Inquest
MR. G. C. MARTIN, J.P., District Coroner, held an inquest at the Naval Brigade Hotel, Watt-street, yesterday, into the cause of the death of William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Battle of Trafalgar Square. The Police Victorious. Seventy-five Persons Injured—Four Hundred Arrests. LONDON, Sunday Night
FOUR hundred arrests were made this afternoon and evening in connection with the disturbances which occurred in Trafalgar Square, including R. C…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramway Fatality. The Adjourned Inquest
MR. G. C. MARTIN, J.P., continued the inquiry into the cause of the death of William Beecham, who was killed on the tram-line on Saturday last, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatality at Morpeth. Plucky Attempt at Rescue
YESTERDAY morning a lad, named Harold Maynard, aged about twelve years, was drowned in a waterhole at Morpeth under th6 following circumstances:—The deceased,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Burnt—four Hundred Passengers Drowned
The British steamer Wah Young has been burnt at Canton, and 400 passengers are supposed to have been drowned…
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