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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 30
AN inquest was held on Saturday last at Carcoar on the body of John M'Kee, who met his death at the cobalt quarries on Friday. Dr. Hawthorne examined the body, and gave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Culgoa, s, 2135 tons, of London, which was reported on the 16th April as having put back after collision in the Channel, has now completed repairs, and after re-shipping the sound portion of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MOST extraordinary and startling atrocity was perpetrated in the suburb of West Brunswick to-day. A widow named Mary Ryckman attempted to murder a whole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Port Pirie, s, 2040 tons, of London, which put into Monte Video with loss of propeller on the 21st April, is now discharging her cargo in that port in order to ship a new propeller…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Apropos of your remark in to-day's paper that Saturday's sad accident here, resulting in the death of Mr. Robert Kyle, makes the third for the year, I may state…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LATER news with reference to the coach accident at Hinton, full particulars of which appeared in yesterday's issue, state that 11 mail bags sank to the bottom of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident, unfortunately resulting in the death of two persons, happened at Hinton punt about 9 o'clock on Monday night. The mail coach from Dungog had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A YOUNG labourer named George Smith, who resides in Hargreave-street, Carrington, met with a very serious accident at the dyke yesterday afternoon. He was engaged, with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →English papers just to hand report a serious steamship loss—the result of a collision between the British steamer Indra, changing port from Hamburg to Cardiff, and the German steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE slaughter of people in the vicinity of Teralba by passing trains has become so awfully common that public attention should be drawn to it in order that, if possible, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident of a serious nature happened this morning to a wheeler in the Hetton pit, by name of Jackerman, living at Tighe's Hill. The lad was performing his work,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Friday.—Intelligence was received at a late hour last night reporting a terrible railway disaster, which occurred in the State of Missouri. The Pacific express,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A boy named Arthur Clarke, aged eight years, son of Mr. James Clarke, of Council-street, Cook's Hill, while fishing off the Queen's Wharf, yesterday, from some cause…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The two patients in Bathurst Hospital— Gilmore and Symonds—injured in the late Tarana railway accident, are progressing favourably. Symonds was most seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A young girl, aged 12, daughter of a man named Grivell, a market gardener, of Campbelltown, met with a bad accident on Sunday. She ran down a steep hill, and fell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ship Soukar, lying in the stream at Lyttelten, broke from her mooring during a N.W. squall on 24th ult., and came into collision with the barque Cockermouth, damaging the latter's port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A CHINESE store at North Lismore was the scene of a terrible outrage. It appears six Chinese were engaged gambling, when one accused another of cheating. The one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT will be remembered that at the inquest on the victim of the railway catastrophe to one of the special trains conveying Sells' Circus from the Northern border to Armidale,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An elderly man name Henry Bollan, residing at Fast Melbourne, was thrown out of a buggy, and died on the way to the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A YOUNG man named David Livingstone, eldest son of Mr. Adam Livingstone, of Berlang, met with a frightful accident whilst working in a tunnel at Surface Hill. It…
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