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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
458 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 23
AN inquest was held on Saturday, before Mr. G. C. Martin, district coroner, at the Red Lion Hotel, Murnain-street, Wallsend, touching the death of John Gilbert, who met…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANOTHER Of those awful pit accidents which make the lives of miners more precarious than those of soldiers, is reported from North Somerset. At…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The well-known ship River Falloch, from Liverpool 27th November, arrived in Watson's Bay on Tuesday night. She had line weather and fair winds for three days, and on the 8th December encountered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Sydney-Melbourne express train, when about four miles from Wagga and about one mile from Bomen, this morning dashed into a mob of cattle which had strayed on to the line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LITTLE girl named Nellie Campbell, about 4 years of age, met with a peculiar accident at Greta on Thursday evening. She was playing on the verandah of a house near her parents'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN elderly miner named Teasdale, a resident of Tighe's Hill, met with a serious accident on Friday afternoon while working at the Hetton Colliery, by which his collarbane was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN explosion of gas occurred here on Sunday night at the Theatre Royal Hotel. Messrs. Pollard and Burkhill, while engaged in the bar, noticed a strong smell of gas in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. J. P. Stow, wife of the special magistrate at Fort Pirie, was killed by a buggy accident on Sunday. RAILWAY ACCIDENT…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ordinary train collided at Oamaru with a Sunday-school excursion train. The engine was slowing down at the time, and the force of the impact was considerably moderated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. E. A. ALDERTON, a grazier at Crystal Vale, eight miles from Bendeemer, on the Upper Moore Creek, was shot dead while out shooting this morning. From what can be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon two young men who were walking along Elgin-street, West Maitland, observed a little boy lying in a yard in which there were a couple…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The R.M.S. Australia left Sydney on Saturday for London, via ports. At 1.30 p.m. she was observed from the South Head signal station to have dropped her anchor off South Reef. Signals were hoisted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A PECULIARLY-DISTRESSING fatality was reported from Lake Macquarie last evening. A number of Newcastle gentlemen have been in the habit of spending their spare time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—A serious railway accident has occurred at Bodmin, in Cornwall. A heavily laden excursion train ran off the rails…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE operations of the Spottiswoode sewer, where the six men were entombed on Friday, was pushed on with vigour this morning When the tarpaulia and bags of clay were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. G. C. MARTIN, the Newcastle district coroner, held a magisterial inquiry yesterday at Swansea, into the ciroumstances attending the death of Kenneth Robert Jacob, the late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Geutie races yesterday a lad named Evans, of Ponto, while riding his horse ran off the course, and threw Evans against a tree. He died to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Harbour Trust officials to-day intended examining the bed of the river where the Spottiswoode disaster occurred, but owing to the unfavourable weather postponed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Information was received in West Maitland yesterday to the effect that a youth named Thomas Nicholls, residing at Bishop's Bridge, had sustained a fracture of the leg owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BEFORE leaving Dover for Ramsgate one afternoon recently, the crew of a Ramsgate lifeboat, which had a fearful experience by the Goodwin…
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