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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 30
AN inquest touching the death of George Proctor, a miner, who was killed by a fall of earth in the Tickhole tunnel on Saturday morning, was held in Ivort's Hotel, Tighe's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Sunday morning a navvy named Joseph Fengally, while wrestling with another man named Jones at South Burwood, had his left leg smashed at the ankle Late in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two men, named James Elson and Wm. Evans, were drowned in Trial Harbour, while working in a boat getting cargo ashore. STRIKE OF SAILORS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steam launch Cadet, belonging to Mr. James Russell, met with a serious accident last night, by which she was almost wrecked. The launch was returning to town from the steamer Doddington at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Monday a very severe and painful accident occurred at Newcastle A Pit to a son of Mr. John Atkinson, of Adamstown. A number of waggons had broken away, and the lad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Kelloe, s, 500 tons, bound from Sunderland to Sydney, has proceeded on her voyage, as it was found that she had not received any damage through stranding on the Goodwin Sands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TERRIBLE explosion occurred shortly after eleven o'clock this morning, at the Fresh Food and Ice Company's works, Darling Harbour, by which six men were injured,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, May 5.—The Mamari, s, 2349 tons, of Sunderland, which left Auckland for London on March 19, went ashore on the A[?]rolhos Banks, off the Brazilian coastland, after jettisoning a portion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY before 1 o'clock this morning a collision, which might have been attended with terribly disastrous results, occurred at Culcairn railway station, about 40 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN accident of a very serious nature occurred yesterday at Hudson Bros.' works, Pyrmont. Some girders were being handled, when one of the heavy pieces of iron fell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LAD named David Ince, employed at Messrs. James Russell and Co.'s foundry, whilst working at some machinery yesterday, had his leg caught and badly hurt. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE vessel reported ashore on the Victorian coast off Springy Greek, has turned out to be the American ship Joseph H. Scammel, bound from New York to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The B.I. steamship Dorunda, 2033 tons, of Glasgow, which left Brisbane for London on March 14, has arrived at Naples with damage to her machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A surveyor's cadet named Charles F. Weston was killed by a falling tree, under which he was resting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CAPTAIN PAGE, of the steamer Taramung, has telegraphed from Newcastle that the collision with the schooner Doran in Melbourne harbour on Friday last was due to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused yesterday morning at Wallsend, when it became known that Mrs. Greenwell, wife of Mr. Nichols Greenwell, of Murnain-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A YOUNG man named Angus M'Pherson was to-day instantly killed at Sale through his horse falling on him and crushing in his skull. He was riding along quietly in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The steamer Stura, wich 900 emigrants aboard, bound to Now York, collided with the steamer Buccaneer at Gibraltar. The Stura was seriously damaged,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Friday night, as the steamer Duckenfield was steaming along the coast, Captain Tait had occasion to go forward. On returning aft, owing to one of the bunker lids being off,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHORTLY after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Robert Lindsay, master of the ketch S. A. Hayward, met his death in an awfully sudden manner. The ketch was sailing out of…
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