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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 30
FURTHER particulars as to the death of Miss Dutton at Port Victor show that when her brother and younger sister, and the unfortunate young lady herself were climbing about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A VERY serious railway accident occurred at Adamstown yesterday afternoon, but fortunately no lives were sacrificed. Between 2 and 3 o'clock a train, consisting of an engine,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—A terrible accident is reported from Bucharest. The sleeping carriage attached to the express train caught fire between Bucharest and Braila, 18 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In connection with the sinking in January of the Danish schooner Fylla in the English Channel by the R.M.S. Oroya, the following particulars are to hand:—"As the Oroya was steaming down the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon a little girl, aged about 2 years, daughter of Mr. John Baxendale, Jesmond, fell into an underground tank of water and was drowned. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large gang of men were at work yesterday removing the wreckage of the railway accident. The junctions of the New Lambton and South Burwood line are not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. G. O. MARTIN, J. P., the District Coroner, proceeded to Jesmond yesterday' morning, and, with a jury of twelve, held on inquest in the Marquis of Midlothian Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A GENTLEMAN, under the influence of liquor, mistook the Brighton, which was lying alongside the Manly Wharf, for the steamer leaving for Sydney. There being no…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BETWEEN 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon three young men named John Hower, William Ferrer, and Richard Corrigan, engaged a boat from William Treleven at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SERIOUS accident happened on the Agricultural Society's Grounds yesterday morning, whereby the well-known pony Sophie and another named Windsor Lass met their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The secretary of the Brisbane Marine Board, Mr. S. A. Pethebridge, has been called upon to attend the Supreme Court at Sydney in the matter of the action which is being brought by the owners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday evening about 6 p.m., whilst a buggy was being driven at a fast pace along Nelson-street by Alderman St[?]l, the other occupants of the buggy being Mr. Peters,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALTHOUGH the police boat was launched almost immediately after the boating accident by which the young man Richard Corrigan was drowned, all efforts to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two men named T. C Lightfoot and Herbert Hymen, aged 22 and 32 respectively, want for a row on the river in a canvas canoe. One side of the canoe collapsed when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE warnings given in the press against the danger of reckless sailing of boats are frequently emphasised by mortally calamitous results. Unfortunately, many people seem to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body of a man found drowned in a pond near Geelong has been identified through a photograph taken before his death as that of George Leary, 31, a well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Saturday morning last, a boy named Thomas Garbutt, aged 8 years, was, at his own request, allowed a ride on a baker's cart While crossing the Waratah line at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHARLES PRESLAND, a hotelkeeper of West Wallsend, whilst riding to West Wallsend from Old Wallsend was stuck up, and robbed to-day, by two men whose descriptions have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. G. C. MARTIN, district coroner, held an inquest, at the Royal Standard Hotel, Adamstown, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, on the body of a little girl named…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBTLE accident occurred at T[?]r[?]awingee to-day. A man named John M'Mahon was engaged in putting in a charge of rackarock, when, by some unexplained…
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