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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
267 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 14
Some very interesting experiments were made at the Rand wick range on Friday to test the feasibility of detecting smokeless powder. The disadvantages of not being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As the ferry boat from Newcastle was approaching the Stockton wharf just after midday yesterday, the master, Mr. Robert Boyce, observed a child in the water near the river…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon a miner named Charles Brown met with an accident which, according to report, nearly proved fatal. It appears that Brown was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two miners, Mr. J. Reid and Mr. Jos. Henderson, met with an accident in the mine yesterday morning about 10 o'clock. It appears that they were working together in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A carter named Sidney Pritchard, in the employ of Mr. W. C. Hawkins, had a narrow escape from drowning in the breakers at the rear of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Edward Cato, while competing in the bicycle race at Richmond yesterday, was hurled against a fence, and fractured his skull. His recovery is doubtful…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—Seventy-six British were wounded at Klipkraal on the 16th, including private Clive Flint, of New South Wales Mounted Rifles,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatal accident occurred at the No. 1 shaft of the Victorian Gold Estates, Moolort, Vic., about 8 o'clock on Saturday morning. Two miners, named Thos…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday a boy named Hitchcock ,(son of Mr. Thomas Hitchcock) met with a rather severe accident, through the careless handling of blasting powder. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The death is anounced at Jerry's Plains of Miss Atkinson, only daughter of Mrs. E. Atkinson, postmistress at that centre. It appears that the deceased young lady…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A little girl named Willis, eight years of age, reported to the police yesterday that when on the beach between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning she saw a little boy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious accident occurred to a boy named Lee, about eight years of age, son of Mr. A. Lee, of this town, on Wednesday afternoon. It appears that the little fellow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday night last as the steamer Lubra lay at the N. and H.R.S.S. Coy.'s wharf taking in cargo, a youth named William Phillips was drowned. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An inquest was held by the district coroner (Mr. G. C. Martin) at the Glasson Hotel, Stockton, on Saturday, touching the death of James Roach, who was killed by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The secretary of the Marine Board has received a report from Captain Creer, master of the pilot steamer Captain Cook, giving particulars of a collision which occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A man named Charles Parnell was killed at the Sulphide Works on Saturday morning, through a weigh-lift striking him on the head. At the time of the accident the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At about 9 o'clock on Saturday morning a miner named James Roach, an old and well-known resident of Strand-street, Stockton, was almost instantaneously killed by a fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At. Jones' Commercial Hotel, Boolaroo, yesterday, Mr. G. C. Martin, Coroner, conducted an inquest touching the death of Charles Parnell, who met with a fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a very serious nature occurred yesterday morning at the Co-operative Colliery, to a youth named Thomas Smurth waite, 16 years of age. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The accident which occurred at the Sydney Harbour Collieries Co.'s shaft at Balmain this afternoon was a direful one, as five men lost their lives in am…
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