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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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AN inquest was held yesterday at Hutchinson's Boat-rowers' Hotel, before Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P., the district coroner, regarding the sad drowning fatality the day before, whereby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DISASTROUS fire broke out at 4 o'clock this morning at the Mutual Store, Flinder-street, a four-storied building, crammed with goods of various kinds. The building, crammed with goods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning an accident occurred at the old Blakey Shaft, New Lambton, by which a young man named Hubert Thomas Brown lost his life. It appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PAINFUL gunshot accident occurred on Wednesday at Gosford to a youth named Walter Pickett, whilst out wallaby shooting at Kincumber. Pickett stationed himself on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the ship Scottish Minstrel was being towed to sea, yesterday morning, a boat towed alongside capsized, and the two occupants narrowly escaped a watery grave. The boat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN inquiry into the cause of the death of Hubert Thomas Brown, who was killed at East Lambton Colliery on Friday, the 2nd inst., was held at the courthouse, Lambton,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GEORGE RICE, a signalman, was tried at Taunton Assizes on November 22, for causing the recent railway collision at Norton Fitzwarren, by which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named Garland had the mistune to break his leg at Auckett's brickyard, in East Maitland, on New Year's Eve. It appears he slipped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Sunday.—Eight children have died from the effects of the burning accident at Wortley…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE engine of a special train, in which Capt. W. E. Malcolm, of the Scots Greys, and a a servant (the only passengers) were travelling from Carlisle to Dumfries, Scotland, ran…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE climbing season of 1890 was more fertile of accidents (says the new number of the Alpine Journal) than any since the fatal year 1882. Only one Englishman, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ship Mangalore, of Liverpool, Shields, for Valparaiso, with a cargo of coal, coke, and bricks, arrived at Gravesend November 21, with jib-boom, foreyard, and foretopsail yards carried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Goldberg, of Melbourne, was drowned to-day, while bathing in M'Alister's River. TO TAKE THEIR TRIAL. Lilian May Adams and her father have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY afternoon a serious accident befell two seamen on board the barque Verulam, by which their legs were broken. It appears the vessel left the dyke about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A CASE of drowning in the Murrumbidgee River happened at Wagga on Sunday. A harvester, named Davidson, was bathing in the river, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Monday.—The ice on the Danube at Buda Pesth broke yesterday while, covered with crowds of people. Many of them are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SERIOUS accident recently occurred at the Arley mine of the Atherton Collieries, Lancashire, England, belonging to Messrs. Fletcher, Burrows,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alexander Roy, son of Mr. James Roy, of Adamstown, met with an accident in New Lambton pit yesterday, by which his left thigh was broken. He was coming out of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ABOUT 6 o'clock yesterday morning the residents of Tighe's Hill were alarmed by hearing a rumour that a serious accident had happened at the Pride of Ferndale Pit, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE flooding of a small colliery at Tighe's Hill yesterday, by which one man was engulfed, shows once more how history repeats itself. On the morning of the 18th March,…
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