Drowning Fatality at Minmi
Early yesterday afternoon a child named William Henry Thomas, aged 2 years and 8 months, was drowned in the Minmi Creek. Two other children—Ruby Turner,…
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Accidents, 1899
318 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
A Mining Fatality
An inquest touching the death of Walter Wilks, a shiftman, who died in the Newcastle Hospital yesterday morning from injuries received while working in Brown's colliery…
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LONDON, Thursday.—While the Manchester express was passing at full speed through Greetland Station to-day one of the large driving wheels became detached, and…
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On Friday, about noon, at little boy of 2½ years, the son, of Mr. Thomas, Mr. Welsh's storekeeper, met his death by drowning. It appears that the little follow, accompanied…
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Mr. James Horder, the well-known Maitland carrier, met with a painful accident at South Greta on Saturday afternoon, and had a narrow escape of being killed. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident to the Katoomba
The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Katoomba, while leaving Sydney on Saturday for Brisbane, met with an accident. Shortly after leaving the wharf at darling Harbour the vessel was observed to take a…
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LONDON, Sunday.—Two trains came into collision near Paris yesterday, through in-attention to the signals. Ten persons were killed and ten injured…
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LONDON, Sunday.—While marching from Limerick to Thumles yesterday, nine of the men of the 2nd Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment were injured by…
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LONDON, Monday.—A disastrous accident on an electric railway has happened at Bridgeport. A passenger car running on the line at Skelton Heights left the rails,…
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LONDON, Monday.—Later details state that the accident to Mr. Bergne and his guides, while climbing the Shreckhorn, in the Bernese Oberland, near Grindelwald,…
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A colliery accident, which it was at first feared would be attended with considerable loss of life, recently occurred in a coal pit In Ayrshire, Scotland. Water broke into…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hurricane in the West Indies. Terrible Destruction at Puertorico. Two Hundred Persons Drowned. Other Islands Affected
LONDON, Friday.—The hurricane which was recently reported to have done much damage at Antigua and St. Christopher, in the Leeward Islands, has also visited other…
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A sensational coach accident occurred on Thursday to the Tenterfield-Lismore mail coach. The passengers comprised Mr. B. Brown, a member of the Dapto Smelting…
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LONDON, Friday.—Miss Christina Bridge, a sister of Vice-Admiral Bridge; late Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Station, while touring in the Alps, near Zural,…
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Yesterday afternoon Senior-constable Robinson. stationed at the Glebe, was informed by some boys that they had seen a man struggling in the sea near the Merewether…
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A man named Anthony Bambach, an employee at Mr. James Wolstenholme's sawmills, narrowly escaped being crushed by a log, weighing five hundredweight,…
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The Marino Court inquiry in connection with the Edina-Excelsior collision has been delivered. The Court found—"That both masters were on the bridge of their vessels,…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Disastrous floods have occurred at Santiago, the capital or Chill. A train while crossing a bridge, the supports of which the floods had weakened,…
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LONDON, Friday.—A collision has occurred off a lighthouse in the Red Sea between the steamers Clan Mackay, of the Clan line, and the Orizaba, bound for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pl[?]attsburg. Accident
A rather serious accident occurred yesterday to a bricklayer named Adam Kerr, of Lambton. It would seem that Kerr was engaged on a scaffold scaffold some 15ft from the…
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