Horrible Burning Accident Near Morpeth
A YOUNG married woman, named Wright, living at Phœnix Park, near Morpeth, met with a dreadful accident on Wednesday, through her clothes…
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Accidents, 1888
256 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 13
Accident on Board the Alhambra
ABOUT 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon a seaman belonging to the steam-collier Alhambra, whoso Christian name is Hans, but whose surname we hare been unable to ascertain,…
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THE Balarat Courier states: A sad and fatal accident occurred at the No. s shaft of the sulieman Pasha Company, Main-street a fine on Saturday…
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News from America states that a terrible railway accident occurred on Saturday at Blackshear. Near the town there is a trestle bridge, and as…
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A SHOCKING accident, which fortunately has not proved fatal, took place in the West Wallsend mine yesterday forenoon. Some five or six miners were…
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AT Dr. John Harris's surgery in Watt-street' last night, when the Salvage Corps Ambulance Class was assembled, Mr. S. L. Holt, the secretary, handed to each member an…
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ON Saturday afternoon, at the Corporation Baths, Newcomen-street, a very serious occurence took place, which in all probability would have resulted in the drowning of two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Saturday evening. ACCIDENTS
MICHAEL MILES, 39 years, was working on the North Shore railway, when he was crushed by a fall of earth. Upon being admitted to the Prince…
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ON Saturday afternoon, at the Naval Brigade Hotel, an inquest was held by Mr. G. C. Martin, district coroner, into the circumstances attending the death of Edward…
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SIR,—Reading in yesterday's paper "A Narrow Escape of Drowning in the Corporation Baths," I thought it very hard indeed that all the praise…
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SIR,—Will you kindly oblige by inserting the following letter in your valuable paper. While perusing Friday's issue I noticed a report of a sad accident at West Wallsend,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Correspondence Fatal Accident at West Wallsend. to the Editor
SIR,—I notice under the heading of your Wallsend correspondent a statement that Mr. Melville requested the owner of a van to take the…
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SIR,—I would like to know the name of the kind person who thought fit to write the paragraph in Monday's issue re the above heading. I had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria. Melbourne, Friday. Fatal Accident
Thomas Crouch Campman has been killed at Flemington by attempting to leave a moving train. MELBOURNE, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Correspondence the Late Accident at the Corporation Baths. to the Editor
SIR,—It gives me very great pleasure to thus publicly thank those young ladies who went (all of them) so willingly to the rescue of my…
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AN inquest was held recently at the Harrington Arms, on Lord Harrington's estate, Macclesfield, touching the death of Samuel Stubbs, aged fifty…
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CORPORAL BISHOP, of the Goulburn Corps, 1st Regiment, V.A., is in hospital dangerously ill from the effects of a fall received whilst taking part in the…
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ABOUT midday yesterday two miners were brought out of the New Tunnel, laving received severe injuries through a fall of coal. It appears that the men, Thomas Griffin…
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MR. G. C. MARTIN, J.P., district coronel, held an inquest at the Coffee Palace Hotel, Blane-street, on Saturday, into the cause of the death of…
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A CORRESPONDENT writes: Amongst the many ways of saving persons at sea from drowning, the following may be considered an almost incredible incident, i.e., without…
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