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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
267 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 14
There are various new plague items Most important is the meeting of the City Council on Friday, when in consequence of the scare got up by Alderman Norton, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Just about knock-off time on Wednesday a miner named Percy Moore met with a severe accident. It appears that while Moore was engaged shoveling coal in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., District Coroner, held a magisterial inquiry at Blake's Hotel, Largs, yesterday, concerning the circumstances attending…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Private P. Murray, of Carrington, writing from Durban, Natal, under date February 16, to Color-Sergeant Hart, of "A" Company 4th Regiment, says:—"No doubt you…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A trial of the Laffas system of preventing railway accidents by applying the brakes automatically was made recently at Barry, says the "Engineer and Iron Trades'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wm. Barkley and Alfred May were killed by an explosion at the 800ft level in the South Mine. Barklay, who was shockingly mutilated, was killed instantly. May was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON: Thursday.—A terrible railway accident has occurred at Glasgow. A workman's train, following another came into collision with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Justice Owen, sitting as Deputy-Judge Commissary in Vice-Admiralty to-day, delivered judgment in the actions arising out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A five-year-old daughter of Mr. James Horder, of Oakhampton, met with a painful accident yesterday morning, while playing with a younger sister near a large gate,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The quarterly meeting of the East Greta Accident Relief Society was hold at the Oddfellows Hall, Smith-street, on Saturday evening, under the presidency of Mr. M…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A painful accident befel Mr. C. Turnbull, of Victoria-street, Adamstown, yesterday, at Messrs. Bush and Sons' slaughter-yard. He was standing on a scaffold watching the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A young man named George Carroll, aged 20 years, died in Maitland Hospital on Sunday afternoon, two hours after admission. The deceased was thrown from his horse on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The lifting chain attached to No. 15 crane broke about twenty minutes to nine last night, with the result that a waggon of coal which was being swung over the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious accident took place on the road beyond Parley on Thursday evening, when a man named John Smith, a well known resident of Ellalong, sustained painful…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A serious accident occurred at Burwood Colliery on Thursday to Mr. Edwin Williams, who is employed firing the shots in the gasy section of the mine. Williams…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The transport Winkfield, when near Capetown, rammed the Union liner Mexican during a fog. Everybody was landed safely,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The bursting of a dam at Austin, in Texas, released miles of water sixty feet deep. Forty persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The accident that happened to Mr. James Ashman, while following his usual employment in the Burwood Colliery last Thursday, turned out to be more serious than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad ease of drowning occurred at West Walleand on Monday evening, when a little boy named William John Pallister, aged five years and eleven months, son of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The inquiry into the loss of the Union Company's Royal Mail steamer Mexican, which sank after having been in collision with…
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