Minmi an Accident
A miner named James Fergus met with a nasty accident on Saturday afternoon in No. 10 heading of the Back Creek Colliery. It appears that while Fergus was working…
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Accidents, 1899
318 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 16
Extraordinary Mining Accident
The Clunes correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus" states that a remarkable escape from fatal injury was experienced on Saturday by a young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to Mrs. Joseph Wood a Child's Leg Broken
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wood, who left Newcastle last Saturday to spend a month at Blackheath on the Blue Mountains, have, we regret to say, had a very unpleasant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Catherine Hill Bay. Accident
The Rev Mr. Penman met with a slight accident on his visit to the By last week. It appears the horse took fright at something when crossing the Swansea Bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Collision in Sydney
Shortly before 8 o'clock on Saturday evening a collision occurred between the steamer Greyhound and the North Shore Ferry Company's steamer Waringa at Circular Quay, which fortunately was attended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Accident in Colorado. Swept by an Avalanche. a Holocaust of Miners
LONDON, Monday. — Twenty-six miners were overtaken by an avalanche in Cherokee Gulch, Colerado. The majority were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coach Fatality
At the Coroner's inquest touching the death of George M. Pattison told Robert Louis, the jury found a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, and added…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend. the Late Accident
We regret to announce that the accident that befell the lad Gibson, while assisting in shunting operations at the Wallsend Tunnel on Monday last, is of a much more serious…
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Early on Saturday morning a boy named Lindsay Humphries noticed the body of a man floating in Throsby's Creek, at the rear of Warner's-terrace, Smedmore. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Railway Collision. Twenty-one Killed. One Hundred Injured
LONDON, Sunday.—An express train from Mons to Brussels yesterday during a fog ran into and telescoped a train at the Forest Station, near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Lambton. Accident
On Monday a rather painful accident happened to Mr. John Marshall, while following his occupation as a miner in the Lambton Colliery. He was engaged holing, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hostile Demonstration. Many Persons Injured. Wholesale Arrests
LONDON, Monday.—The street demonstrations in Paris against President Lonbet were the result of preconcerted rowdyism. In the tumult…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chingtu-arawatta Collision
In the Practice Court yesterday the presiding judge granted an order nisi for a writ of prohibition to restrain the Court of Marine Inquiry from enforcing judgment in the recent case of Captain Lee, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accidents Prevention Bill
LONDON, Tuesday.—In the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Rit[?]e, President of the Board of Trade, introduced the Railway Accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Colliery Accident in Natal. Seven Men Killed
A most disastrous accident recently occurred red at the St. George's Colliery, Natal, South Africa, five kafirs losing their lives, while a Europeans named Stevenson and another white…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Battleship in Collision
An alarming incident occurred recently in Devonport Harbour, when the battleship Collinsgwood collided with the training cruiser Curacoa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Catastrophe near Toulon. Explosion of a Naval Magazine. Forty Killed; 110 INJURED
LONDON, Monday.—A terrible explosion is reported from Lagouban, near Toulon, the French naval station on the Medite[?]rancan. The naval…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Torrens Accident
The Adelaide Marine Board on Friday was occupied taking evidence concerning the collision of the ship Torrens with an iceberg in the vicinity of the Crozet Islands on January 11, when on a voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prevention of Railway Accidents
The new legislation for the prevention of railway accidents in the United Kingdom does not come a moment too soon. Notwithstanding the enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Railway Collision. Christchurch, N.Z.
When strain conveying homewards a large number of the employees connected with the Islington Freezing Works, who had been holding a picnic at Ashbuton, it ran into…
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