To-day's Accidents
Wheeler Hurt.—While at work at Maitland Main Colliery to-day, Lester Howard, a wheeler, of Millfield, was struck by a fall of coal and was…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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Wheeler Hurt.—While at work at Maitland Main Colliery to-day, Lester Howard, a wheeler, of Millfield, was struck by a fall of coal and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lester Howard, a wheeler employed at Maitland Main colliery, and residing at Millfield, was admitted to hospital yesterday with injuries to his head, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When a motor car fell over an embankment at Cowan Creek to-day, the occupants of the car—a man and his wife, and two children—were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Knocked down by a cycle in Hunter-street yesterday afternoon, Ruby Sneddon, 7, of 30 Fern-street, Islington, had her skull injured. Newcastle Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arising out of a collision between a motor-cycle and a motor car, at Bellevue tersen by his next friend, Theodore Paterson, by his next friend, Theodore…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With bullet wounds in her chest and back, Jessie Robertson, aged 10, of Woodstock-street, Mayfield, was admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Denys Dens, 40, a miner, living it Dudley-road, Charlestown, was at work in John Darling colliery yesterday, when he was struck by a fall from the roof…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After having fallen about 40ft. from the roof of the Maxwell Flats, Roslyn-street, Darlinghurst, this morning, Joseph McConnell, 27, salesman, was admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A shocking tragedy occurred shortly after 9 o'clock to-night, when a father and son were drowned in the Fitzroy River, the man's wife and three younger…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Valentine Smith, 23, of Tebutt-street, Leichhardt, escaped serious injury in a remarkable manner this afternoon. While working on a scaffolding inside a wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William Jenkins, aged 8, living at 48 Perkin-street, City, was running across the road at the corner of Perkin and King Streets, yesterday, when he dropped…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jessie Robertson, 16, was admitted to the General Hospital yesterday with a bullet-wound in her chest, caused by the accidental explosion of a pea-rifle at her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After dragging all night and throughout the day, police recovered the body of Hans Kellett, 53, from the river near Lismore Gas Works this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Frederick Thomas Rennox, a clipper engaged in Richmond Main colliery, was admitted to the Kurri Kurri District hospital yesterday, suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Falling on a heap of ashes yesterday, Jack Clark, aged 18 months, of 7 Pearson-street, Lambton, had his left foot burned. Newcastle Ambulance conveyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When a motor-car and a motor-cycle and sidecar collided yesterday William Hunter, 20, of Avondale-road, New Lambton, who had been riding the bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When Jack Ryder, the Victorian captain, was batting in the Shield match against Queensland to-day he hit a ball hard to square leg. Umpire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Before Judge Sheridan, at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday, Richard William Cunningham was charged with having, at North Stockton, on September 14,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. W. H. Byrnes, an auctioneer at Temora, was standing with his hand on a fence, watching horses being yarded, when a horse crashed into the fence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stumbling and falling on a pick at Stockton Borehole Colliery yesterday, a miner, W. Hogg, 50, of Carrington-street, West Wallsend, had his chest wounded…
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