The Terrible Accident at Bourke
A TERRIBLE accident happened at Bourke on Wednesday morning. The day was set apart as a public holiday for a children's picnic. Nearly every…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
Accidents, 1888
256 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 13
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saturday. Awful Collision.—one Hundred Persons Drowned
News has been received of a terrible collision between two coasting steamers near Sable Island, ninety miles south-east of Nova Scotia. One…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Saturday. Serious Accident
Mr. Johnson, owner of the racehorse Hubert, while riding in the recent Queensland Driving Park Club race meeting in the Hurdle Race, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cablegrams. London, Sunday. the Thingvalla-geiser Collision
NEWS has reached London to the effect that a terrible disaster has occurred between two passenger steamers off the coast of Nova Scotia,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Drowned in the Harbour
IT was reported to the police yesterday morning that the body of a man named Thomas M'Govern, cook on board the barque J. L. Hall, had been found floating in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Revolver Accident
A YOUNG man named E. Taylor, son of Mr. J. Taylor, J.P., of Parramatta, was practising in the yard with a seven-chambered toy revolver at a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alarming Dynamite Accident
A SERIOUS dynamite accident occurred recently at the Wynbone Silver-mining Company's works, situated 30 miles from Braidwood. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Monday. Fatal Marine Collision
A sad collision occurred in the bay of San Francisco between the steamers Oceanic (2440 tons register) and the Chester (1872 tons). The latter sank,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Lambton
AN accident occurred yesterday to Mr. W. Grierson, our Waratah agent, and Inspector of Nuisances for Lambton ton municipality. While going…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twenty French Sailors Drowned
THE Germanic brought details of the collision between the North German steamer Fulda, off the banks of Newfoundland, with a French schooner,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatal Accident
A YOUNG man named Benjamin Bridge, employed by Mr. Abel, butcher, of Canterbury-road, Petersham, has been killed by a fall from a horse. He…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PARIS, Wednesday. Terrible Railway Accident at Dijon
The train which ran into another while being derailed near Dijon was an express mail train. The smash was terrific, several carriages being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident at the Wallsend Colliery
THIS morning (Friday), about 9 o'clock, an unfortunate accident occurred at the Wallsend Colliery, whereby Joseph Willis lost his life, and John Gilbert and James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dijon Railway Accident
In the terrible collision between two express trains near Dijon, France, Lady Bowen, wife of Sir George Bowen, at one time Governor of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Men Drowned
A SHOCKING accident occurred off Dover, by which two watermen, named Bartholomew, father and son, were drowned. The men had gone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident at Raymond Terrace
THE Maitland Mercury's correspondent at Raymond Terrace writes as follows:—The Hon. J. H. Young, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Brothers Drowned
AN accident occurred on Keswick Lake, England, through which two brothers named Walker, of Scotby, near Carlisle, lost their lives. Three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Thursday. Collision and Terrible Loss of Life
News has been received of a disastrous collision off Port Luz, in the Canary Islands. A large French steamer collided with and sank an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dreadful Maritime Collision
Intelligence has reached here to the effect that a French steamer came into collision with the Italian steamer Sud America, off the Canary Islands. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident in Zara-street
DURING the past week workmen have been employed by the Council in laying drain pipes in Zara-street, and as it is necessary that the pipes should be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →