Supposed Death by Drowning
MR. LYNCH, Inspector of Police, has furnished us with the following copy of a report supplied to him by Senior-constable Shearer, of the Newcastle water-police, concerning the…
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Accidents, 1895
458 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 23
Accident to the Devonport
The barque Devonport, which parted her cable during an easterly gale at Circular Head, Tasmania, on Friday, drifted ashore. On Saturday she bumped heavily, and a wire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents to Shipping: S.S. Sydney Aground
THE Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Co.'s steamer Sydney, when coming down the river from Morpeth on Saturday night, took the ground on a mud flat and remained hard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Monday. Accident
Wm. Carter, a labourer at the Block 14 smelters, was jammed in a lift to-day, and had several ribs broken, but there are hopes of his recovery…
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MR. JOHN PORTER, mining manager at the Unicorn mine, Devonshire line of reef, Eaglehawk (Vic.), met with terrible injuries in the shaft of that mine on Friday, and now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. Railway Fatality
A boy named J. Baker, four years of age, was killed by falling through a carriage door of the express to Ballarat this afternoon. The lad was playing with a companion and…
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Last evening at about 8 o'clock individual was knocked down by a 'bus in High-street, West Maitland, while crossing the thoroughfare. One of the animals attached…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Burning Accident
THE afternoon a child named Louisa Tolly, 5 years of age, residing with her parents in Bathurst-street, was so severely burned that her life is despaired of. The little one was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Hetton Colliery
JOHN PHILLIPS, the chairman of the Hetton Miners' Lodge, met with an accident in the Hetton mine yesterday morning. He was engaged at the time drawing a sprag, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision at Sydney
On Thursday, at Sydney, a collision occurred at the entrance to Wooloomooloo Bay between the barque Trowbridge and H.M.S. Dart. The Trowbridge was being towed from Central Wharf to an…
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SOON after midnight of Friday last a seaman on beard the barque Siriaca, now lying at the ballast wharf at Carrington, whilst talking to a shipmate, fell overboard and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning of a Seaman. Magisterial Inquiry
A MAGISTERIAL inquiry into the cause of death of Samuel Smith, A.B., of the barque Serica, whose body was found in the harbour on Sunday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Bonsey Catastrophe. ABOUT 110 Persons Drowned
PARIS, Monday.—It has now been ascertained that the loss of life through the bursting of the reservoir at the town of Bonsey was more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. the Lindisfarne Accident
The Marine Court of Inquiry delivered judgment to-day in the case of the casualty to the steamer Lindisfarne, which grounded off King's Island. William Henry Norris,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Comte de Paris. Injured Whilst Hunting
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Due d'Orleans, who recently succeeded his father as Comte de Paris as head of the Bourbon Family, met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Strathford Accident
The Strathford, s, 2599 tons, of Glasgow, bound from Noum[?]a, via Lyttelton, to London, which was advised on the 8th ultimo as having put into St. Vincent with loss of three propellor blades, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Wallsend. Accident
A young man named W. Burns met with an accident on Monday which will prevent him working for a few weeks. He was engaged with a number of companions in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatality on the Railway. Sydney
SHORTLY before 6 o'clock this morning the driver of the train from Homebush to Sydney noticed the body of a man lying near the railway line between Croydon and Burwood…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Hamilton
YESTERDAY afternoon an accident of a serious nature happened to a boy named Frederick Kinder, son of Mr. Samuel Kinder, painter, of Hamilton. He, with another lad named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Thursday. Fatal Accident
A workman named Anton Hortzig, employed in a flour mill at Angaston, became entangled in the machinery to-day, and sustained such injuries that he died almost…
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