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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
465 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 24
WHILE blasting operations were being conducted at the reservoir works, Centennial Park, two charges of dynamite prematurely exploded. Two men, Thomas Noble and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrible accident occurred on the railway, near Brunswick, this evening Rebecca M'Dermott, 60 years old, employed as a gate-keeper, was run over by a train and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—H.M.S. Dido, the new cruiser which met with a mishap while being launched at the Govan Shipyards on the Clyde, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the Hauroto from Dunedin was steaming slowly up the Derwent at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning she collided with H.M.S. Dart, which was moored right in the fairway. The Dart's jibboom and fore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquest was held to-day touching the, death of W. Vaughan Jenkins, who was burned to death at Delander's Courthouse Hotel. The evidence showed that an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning a wheeler from the East Greta Colliery, named Gustan Zouchsener, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital suffering from injured to the hip and lower…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MOST brutal and violent attack was made by a man named Thomas Synott at Cookie Creek yesterday on Mr. Thomas Ashton, the foreman of the men engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →STANLEY GORDON SHEPHERD, aged 11 years, son of Mr. P L C Shepherd, M L O, met with a serious guns hot accident at his parents' residence, Colo Vale, last evening. The lad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A REMARKABLY narrow escape from a terrible accident occurred on the Wodonga-Tallangatta line at noon yesterday, at a crossing a mile beyond Wodonga. A man named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquest touching the death of Richard Vickers, a cabdriver, the victim of the Bandwick tram accident, was concluded this afternoon. Charles Joseph Hart, a watchmaker…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FATAL accident occurred in the Wallsend Colliery yesterday morning owing to a fall of the roof, a minor named Job Sheldon, jun., being killed. The unfortunate man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TERRIBLE mining accident is reported by cable from New Zealand to-day, by which it is feared no loss than 70 miners have perished. The colliery in which the accident…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named Lightfoot, who was employed by Mr. W. King, contractor, of Large, met with a painful accident yesterday. He was employed on Mr. Vircce's now building…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY morning a young named John Rippon was badly injured at Burwood Colliery. It appears that Rippon, who is a double harness driver, was taking along a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A NARROW escape from what might have been a very serious accident occurred in Hunter, yesterday to Dr. Hepworth and his groom. The doctor was driving towards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquest concerning the death of Job Sheldon, a miner, who was killed by an accident in the Wallsend Colliery on Thursday, was continued in the Australian Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following list comprises the injuries received, trivial or otherwise, in the Wallsend. Colliery, during the fortnight ending March 24th. In addition to this list, there are a,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The mine whore the accident occured was formerly known in the Grey Valley Coal Company, but in October of 1[?]95 was purchased by a wealthy English syndicate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The tug-boat Cyclone met with an accident Wollongong harbour on Friday afternoon. She had not long made fast alongside the wharf when a donkey pump was put in motion for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT about 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon a boy named Parsons jumped up behind a timber dray, which was passing his parents' residence in the New Lambton-road, New…
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