The Accident at Maitland. a Fatal Termination
A DREADFUL accident, resulting in the death of a young woman named Annie Stanton, occurred at the Elgin-street railway station on Monday evening. It seems the unfortunate…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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A DREADFUL accident, resulting in the death of a young woman named Annie Stanton, occurred at the Elgin-street railway station on Monday evening. It seems the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A stray horse owned by Mr. J. Edwards, butcher, while wandering along the street yesterday was approached too closely by a child, the son of Mr. William Ward, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What came very near being a serious accident to Mr. Thomas Thorn, residing about three miles from West Wallsend, happened today. He was coming in to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The many friends hero of Captain Planck, of the British ship West Lothian, will regret to hear that he met with a serious accident at an Francisco through falling down the main hatchway and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon a very painful accident occurred to a little child named Parsons, living in Holland-street, Wickham. It appears that the child was running outside with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT was reported yesterday morning that an elderly resident named Edward Atkinson was missing, and supposed to be drowned in Yates' paddock, between Adamstown and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JAS, STEPHENS, aged 56, a labourer, while working on one of the ships in the harbour yesterday, was struck in the face by one of the windlass bars and severely injured. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A COLLISION occured between a 'bus and a cab opposite the Town Hall, George-street, on Saturday evening. The cab, driven by a man named Bernard Congathy, was upturned,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man was drowned on the 16th at Abi Creek, Blackall Barges, whilst prospecting for gold, being washed away by a sudden rise of the water. The body has not yet been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whilst a lighter was swinging round from the Market Wharf yesterday afternoon, on of the Government tugs accidentally struck her on the stern, doing seine slight damage. A boat attached…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY morning the ship Strathearn, lying at No. 1 buoy in the harbour, loaded and ready for sea, had some damage done forward through being bumped against by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A miner named Thomas Cummick got terribly crushed by a fall of coal on Wednesday, in the Back Creek tunnel, No. 10 section. It appears he was engaged at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday night to Mary Gerard, a young woman, who was married in Auckland in the morning, and left with her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ONE of the saddest boating accidents that has ever happened on the Hunter River occurred yesterday afternoon, when two lives were sacrificed within eight of hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE water-police were engaged all day yesterday searching for the bodies of the unfortunate men Spiers and Thomas, who were drowned in the harbour on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME ten days ago a paragraph appeared in the columns of this journal drawing attention to the dangerous position of No. 1 mooring buoy, which is anchored just inside the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LITTLE boy named Joseph Sturgeon, son of Mr. Sturgeon, licensee of the Globe Hotel, met with an accident last evening, which resulted in the fracture of his leg a little…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAST evening Inspector Brennan received information that the unfortunate miner, Thomas Cummack, who got hurt in the pit at Minmi on Wednesday last, died from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE search for the bodies of Speirs and Thomas, the victims in the drowning fatality of Thursday last, was continued all yesterday without success. The work has been carried…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The repairing of the damage caused to the barque Strathearn by the steamer Federal bumping against her last week was commenced yesterday…
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