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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
475 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 24
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the West Wallsend railway line on Thursday morning. While Miss Brooks, the well-known lady evangelist, Mr. Turnbull, manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SCHOOLBOY named William Brannon while climbing a tree in the Domain yesterday afternoon fell and received serious injuries. On being admitted to the Sydney Hospital it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A State school child named Richard Grogan, who has been in the employ of Mr. M. Tierney, of Stanhope, for some time, was drowned while fishing on Friday. An…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TAILOR named Thomas Dalson, was taken to the Sydney Hospital last evening suffering from gunshot wounds on his body. While out shooting at Marulan he was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SERIOUS buggy accident occurred at Lilydale yesterday, when 12 or 13 occupants wore injured. Mr. R. T. King took a number of personal friends for a drive. When…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANOTHER touching fatality from the frost has occurred in a village near Warsaw. A peasant and his wife had gone to attend a wedding party at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOSEPH BOYCE, a recent arrival at Adelong from Broken Hill, was yesterday using dynamite to split a log for building a house. He was seriously hurt by an explosion, both eyes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY afternoon a boy 7 years, son of Mr. Samuel Harcroft, of Merewether, had his hand taken off by a coal waggon on the Burwood Company's line. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY morning as a dray containing bricks was being driven along Regent-street, New Lambton, at a smart pace by two young men, named A. Quinn and C. Jeffries, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CONSTANTINOPLE, Wednesday.—A casualty involving a large loss of life, took place in the harbour to-day. A pleasure steamer attached to the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREAT sympathy is felt for the well-known and popular Captain Joseph Weston, now of the s.s. Bowral, who used for some times to reside at Stockton, and for Mrs. Weston in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →INFORMATION was received in this city yesterday of a railway accident by which Mr. David D. M'Gill, son of Mr. M'Gill, the well-known contractor, and a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT 2 o'clock a terrible accident occurred at the Squitable Insurance Company's now promises, Collins and Elizabeth streets, one man having his head knocked off. The accident…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Saturday evening, at about half-pastseven, a serious accident occurred at the corner of Crown and Church street, through the bolting of a horse which was harnessed to a grocery…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A little girl named Moore, the daughter of the landlord of the Exeter Hotel, was knocked down in the street by the Glanville tram, and her arm was cut off above the wrist…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN inquest on the two men who were killed in the railway accident ant Goulburn on Sunday morning was held at that town on Monday. The names of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A collision in Hobson's Bay between the steamship Flinders, outward bound for Launceston, and the lighter Albyn's Isle, resulted in the instant sinking of the lighter and the narrow escape of a woman and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ABOUT half-past 2 o'clock yesterday after-noon a sailor named James M'Donald, aged 25 years, fell from the dyke into the waters of the harbour and was drowned. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the steamer Star of Hope was proceeding up the Herbert River yesternight she track a sunken punt. She had a hole knocked in her bottom. There are 5ft of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN inquest touching the death of James M' Donald, a sailor, who fell from the dyke on the previous afternoon and was drowned, was held in…
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