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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
668 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 34
At 6 o'clock last evening news was received from Narrabri that the the Namoi River had overflowed its banks, and flooded the town. Captain Weatherill, secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DISASTROUS railway accident was occasioned on the southern line yesterday afternoon by the prevailing floods. A goods train, consisting of 12 sheep trucks and 16…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars are to hand concerning the collision in the river Tamar between the steamer Newcastle and the cutter Margaret, which resulted in the sinking of the latter vessel. The Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT often happens that when persons are apparently drowned, life is not quite extinct, and may be preserved by prompt and persevering exertions. As soon as the body is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WINDSOR, Thursday.—Two young men named W. Armour and W. Dunstan were out on the swollen waters of the South Creek in a flat-bottomed boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named London was trying to cross the Kangaroo Creek, Quirindi, last night. The creek being flooded, he was was washed off his horse and drowned. The body has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHILST a cab proprietor named Thomas Morris was driving along Oxford-street this afternoon the horse stumbled on the tramline, throwing the driver to the ground and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PLUCKY rescue from drowning was effected on Wednesday night in Darling Harbour (says the Telegraph) by Mr. J. Ellis, son of Mr. J. C. Ellis, the well-known shipowner,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Thursday.—News has been received that Sir Howard Elphinstone, Baronet, who was passenger for Teneriffe on board the steamship Tongariro, has been swept…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the seaman, Frederick Taylor, who was drowned on the afternoon of the 1st instant, through a collision in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE inquest on the body of David Heron, the engine-driver who was killed by the Belt railway accident, was concluded at Mount Victoria to-day. The evidence was to the same…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning a shunter named Edgar Collingwood, aged 42 years, while uncoupling amongst an empty set of waggons at the Waratah siding, got his foot caught in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cablegram from London states the Star of England; s, 2298 tons, of Belfast, bound from London to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney has put back to repair damage caused by collision in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JOHN CARR, of Adamstown, a miner employed in the Newcastle pit, got his arm broken last week. It appears that a fall of coal took place, which struck a prop, knocking it out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the seaman, Frederick Taylor, who was drowned on the afternoon of that 1st instant, through a collision in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DURING the fog this morning a slight collision occurred in Darling Harbour between the Balmain ferry steamer Me Mel and the Government steamer Dayspring. The Me…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY afternoon a number of men were warmly engaged in a dispute, at Adamstown, when one, a miner named John Richardson, met with an unfortunate accident. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquest on the body of Frederick Taylor, the seaman who lost his life on March 8 by the collision in the harbour between the steamer Adelaide and the schooner Colonist,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE inquest on the body of Frederick Taylor, the seaman who lost his life on March 1 by the collision in the harbour between the steamer Adelaide and the schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The four-masted ship Province, Captain H. R. Jones, arrived at Melbourne on Tuesday from London. The voyages made by this ship have been of a very uniform nature, her first trip having…
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