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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
475 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 24
AN alarming mining accident occurred at Ballarat this morning at the Sir Henry Loch mind. Shifts were being changed, when a steam-pipe connected with the engine burst,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT about 7 o'clock yesterday morning an empty coal train met with an accident when proceeding to the Burwood Extended Colliery. Upon reaching the first points near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHORTLY before 7 o'clock this morning a gas explosion occurred at the head office of the Australian Joint Stock Bank, at the corner of King and George street. At that time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RAILWAY accident of a terrible nature happened this morning at the old Newtown railway, station, whereby a wood and coal merchant, named William Jones, who carried on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN inquest was held to-day on the body of the man William Jones, who was killed on the railway line at Newtown yesterday. Constable Henry Mitchell gave evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very sad case of death by drowning occurred at East Maitland on Thursday afternoon. The unfortunate victim in this case was a youth named Stanley Compton, some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A MAN named Barney O'Hea, 45 years of age, wars killed this morning by being run over by a coal cart at the old A.S.N. Company's wharf. He was driving the cart along the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A YOUNG man named Lewis Walters, who has for some time been employed as a ganger on the permanent way, met with a very serious accident at about 20 minutes past 10…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CASE was heard to-day at the Water Police Court, before Captain Fisher, upon an information filed by direction of the Marine Board by Captain Baldwin, master of the Lady…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN accident of a painful nature happened to Dr. V. Ludlow yesterday evening, about 7 p.m., while he was going to see a patient near Tighe's Hill. It appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On board Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Company's steamer Santon, a fire broke out at Cardiff, on the 6th ultimo. A report from there, dated Cardiff, Jan. 7, says :—"A fire occurred last night on board steamship…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The four-masted American schooner W. H. Talbot arrived at Sydney on Wednesday from Carmon island, California. The schooner made a capital voyage, though a rough one ; and she reports the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon Thomas Bannister, an on setter in the Stockton pit, had his foot very badly crushed by the colliery cage. He was unable to extricate himself, and, although…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inrush of water which followed the small fall of roof in the Stockton Colliery on Friday morning had not ceased yesterday, but it was greatly reduced in volume. Fortunately,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EARLY this morning a railway accident happened near the Come Railway Station, on the Illawarra line. It seems that a goods train left Sydney for Wollongong late last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the barque Dolly was proceeding up to the Kauri Timber Company's, Blackwattle Bay, Sydney, on Monday, she came in collision with the Glebe Island bridge, and sustained some damage. Her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The flood boat from Southgate, which came to town yesterday, brought word that in that rich district the destruction of crops was worse than in 1890, inasmuch as that in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ABOUT 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon news was brought to the city by the steamer Tomago, to the effect that Captain Williams' steamer Berlinda was aground at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report to hand states that the steamer Darwin struck on the Angelica Shoal to the north of Floris Island on her last voyage from Singapore to Batavia, but got of without assistance, after jettisoning 13,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon a cart heavily laden with sand passed over the heel of a man while he was watching the construction of the new bridge at Tighe's Hill. The poor…
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