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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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On Friday at the Victorian Marine Court, Captain Patrick, of the excursion steamer Hygeia, was found guilty of misconduct in connection with the collision between the Hygeia and the Sprightly. The Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday last a youth named Reynolds, son of Mr. Frank Reynolds, of Glendara, near Paterson, sustained very painful injuries through an explosion of gunpowder. He…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Marine Board this afternoon delivered their reserved decision in the inquiry concluded last week concerning the collision in Sydney Harbour between the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Hubbuck, which arrived at Duukirk on the 14th instant from Sydney, it appears, has been in collision, and is slightly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon a young man named James Mulheron, who was widely-known and respected in the Newcastle district, met with injuries which resulted in his death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BETWEEN 2 and 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a miner named Thomas Watson, employed in the Newcastle Company's B pit, was so severely injured by a fall of coal that he died…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sad accident occurred on board the Dunottar Castle two days before her arrival in Capetown. The vessel was experiencing very severe weather at the time, and was shipping heavy seas. One of these…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A report to hand dated East London, December 18, says :—Captain Carlsen of the barque P. Wirkstroom, from the Baltic, got foul of the anchor chain and windlass whilst casting anchor and fractured his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. G. C MARTIN, District Coroner, with a jury of 12, yesterday initiated an inquest into the cause of death of Thomas Watson, a miner, who died on Thursday evening at his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—The vessel which collided with and sunk the North German Lloyd liner Elbe in the North Sea was the steamer Crathie,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A QUEER story comes from that land of strange tales, America. A miner named John Quincy Adams was prospecting somewhere in the mountains…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Wednesday morning last, Mr. James D. Wilson, licensee of the Northumberland Hotel, West Wallsend, had a leg broken by falling from his cart. Wilson was driving a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A YOUNG man named Henry Thomas, a carter, met with a serious accident on Thursday last. It seems that he was sitting on top of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A report from Hobart says:—"An accident happened to the steamer Herbert on Friday. The vessel was bound from Devonport to Melbourne with 1400 bags of oats when she collided with the breakwater…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PARIS, Tuesday.—Intelligence has been received of a dreadful colliery disaster at Montceau-les-Mines in the department of the Saoaone-et-Loire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A son of D. D. Moon, colliery clerk at Seaham, was seriously injured on Saturday by a kick from a pony he is in the habit of riding. The lad was in the act of placing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY morning a minor was badly injured in the Lambton Colliery. The unfortunate miner is named John Dent, and resides at New Lambton. It appears that a large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. G. C. MARTIN, District Coroner, and a jury of 12, yesterday afternoon, at the Terminus Hotel, Merewether, resumed the inquest into the circumstances attending the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EARLY yesterday morning a crane employee named William Harvey met with an accident at the dyke which at first, it was feared, would prove a very serious one. Harvey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the steamer Craiglee was coming into port yesterday her steam steering gear went wrong and would not act. Whilst the alteration to the hand gear was being made the whistle was blown for a tug…
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