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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 19
Quite a little sensation was created at Hamilton on Saturday afternoon by the derailing of the engine of the northern mail train. Fortunately the speed was not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday last an old and respected resident, named Robert Scott, met with a painful accident while following his occupation in the Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The barque Kylemore arrived here about 11.30 last night from Brisbane in tow of the tag Awhina. As soon as the vessel arrived it was rumoured that a casualty had occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The brig Danube, of Sunderland, was sunk in the Wear at South Hylton recently under extraordinary circumstances, and seven persons, who were on board, had a remarkable escape. The vessel, was lying in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the excitement of conveying voters to the poll at Stockton yesterday, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, two little girls, named Phillips and Lewis, were knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An answer has been received by the New Zealand Shipmasters' Association from the Welligton Marine Department in respect to the petition of Captain Kennedy praying that a low grade master's certificate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the steamer Express arrived at Forster on Saturday evening Captain Elliott reported having struck on a rock near the south head of Broken Bay during a dense fog…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Between 7 and 8 o'clock last evening a man named Richard Walmsley, a resident of Merewether, met with a serious accident in Scott-street through being knocked down by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The adjourned inquest regarding the death of Captain Arthur Forbes, master of the ketch Korunnah, which occurred on the 19th ultimo, when that vessel and the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 1 o'clock this morning a fireman on board the Boveric named Alexander Vitters, a native of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had a very narrow escape from death. While crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Moses Partridge met with an unpleasant accident a couple of days ago. Whilst attending to his horses in the yard one of them suddenly lashed out and kicked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As David Gorrick, captain of the barque Ethelbert, was returning to his vessel between 3 and 4 o'clock on Saturday morning last he walked off the end of the dyke near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Saturday.—Five lady tourists were drowned during a squall; while boating on Lake Derwentwater, Cumberland, England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—A terrible railway disaster has occurred in the Ponte Decimo Tunnel, about 12 miles from Genoa, Italy. A goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cable advices from Tasmania give particulars of the loss of the American schooner C. C. Funck, a well-known trader to, Newcastle. The story of the disaster is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The little daughter of Mr. J. Fitzpatrick met with a very severe and painful accident at her father's residence yesterday morning, about 6.15. It appears that the child, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The recent terrible railway accident in a tunnel rear Genoa shows that the mode of working the great Alpine lines of the Continent is capable of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—An excursion train from Paris was derailed at Lisieux, on the Paris to Cherbourg railway, yesterday. Ten persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—A disastrous railway disaster is reported from South Africa. Several runaway trucks dashed down an incline, and collided with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A collision occurred in Sydney harbour yesterday morning during a dense fog by which the Government steamer Kate was sunk. It appears that the Port Jackson…
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