Fatal Accident
SHORTLY after 11 o'clock on Sunday night, a man named James M'Guinness was conveyed to the Newcastle Hospital in an unconscious condition…
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Accidents, 1888
256 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 13
A Collision Case
The Board of Trade has held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision which occurred in the Red Sea some months ago, off Perim,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Tuesday. Disastrous Collision in the English Channel
The English ship Saxmundham, from Tyneside, came into collision with a Norwegian barque name unknown, off the Isle of Wight. The…
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THE Czar of Russia should now be fully able to enter heartily into the sentiment "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!" Wherever he goes,…
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News has been received of a terrible catastrophe at Calcutta, where a ferry steamer was sunk and 600 persons drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Fatal Accident
A BOAT, with two men and one woman in it, was run down to-day by the steam launch Essex, off the Abattoirs. The two men were drowned, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Saturday Night. Fatality in a Prison Cell
THE magisterial inquiry on the body of the man Henry Rooney, who died in the hospital from the effects of a fall in a police cell, disclosed that the…
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A PECULIAR accident on Friday morning befel a young man named Albert Bruce, fireman on the up express train (says the Goulburn Herald). When…
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A RE-CONSTRUCTION gang were engaged removing some massive iron girders which span one of the bridges on the railway near Warwick, by means of a…
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ADVICES received at Plymouth state that an inquest on the bodies of the ten men who lost their lives through fire on board Sir D. Currie's steamer…
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Further particulars are to hand concerning the collision which took place in the Channel between the Theodore Rüger, of Hamburg, bound…
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EARLY yesterday morning whilst John Johnson, a carter in the employ of Ireland, Newcastle, was engaged in driving a large four-wheeled trolly,…
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CAPTAIN JAMES M'GEE, Of the well-known coasting brig Amy, met with a serious accident at Hexham on Saturday. Iron rails were being…
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THE district coroner (Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P.) held an inquest on Saturday night at the Clarendon Hotel, Blane-street, touching the death of a jockey…
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ABOUT half-past 10 o'clock yesterday morning a serious accident befel a man named Hampton. He was driving a horse and buggy, and…
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AN accident, attended with a very serious result, occurred in Newcomen-street yesterday afternoon. A young man, named William Lumbrick, who…
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A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Lehigh Valley Railway between 8 and 9 o'clock of the evening of October 10th midway between Whitehaven and Pennahaven…
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A Austrian tourist met with a shocking death on the Cimon Della Pala, one of the Alpine peaks in Southern Tyrol, standing over eleven thousand…
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AN alarming railway accident happened at Richmond station. An empty South-Western train was being shunted on to one of the sidings…
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A TELEGRAM from Halifax states that the captain of the National Line steamer the Queen, which arrived there on October 10 from England,…
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