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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

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The Accident to the Fernmount

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 4

W[?]teamer Fernmount, which recently sustained [?] ile crossing out of the Macleay River, has leaving to Mor's Dock. Her rudder post was liberate and the surveyors state that Captain…

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Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 8

Yesterday morning a little lad named Leslie M'Glynn had his arm broken in a fall over some gravel in Victoria-street, West Maitland…

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Fatal Railway Accident in West Australia. One Man Killed. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1896 · page 5

A SERIOUS accident occurred to-day on the Eastern railway, resulting in the death of a passenger and the serious injury of others. It appears a mixed train was shunted on the…

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Collision at Lane Cove

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 4

A collision occurred on the Lane Cove Ferry on Wednesday night between the rival ferry steamers Pearl and Neutral Bay. It appears that the Neutral Bay was approaching the Woolwich wharf on her…

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The Cook of the Tug Irresistible Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 5

BETWEEN 11 and 12 o'clock on Wednesday night the Sydney water police were advised that Leviston Le Bran, cook of the P.J.S.S. Company's steamer Irresistible, was missing,…

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Greta. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 6

A young man named John Henderson met with a nasty accident on Wednesday. He was driving home in a cart from Branxton, when one of…

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Fearful Disaster at Sea. Sinking of a Steamer. 178 Persons Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—News has been received of a fearful shipping disaster off the Japanese coast. Two Japanese steamers collided, and one of them,…

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Lady Mary Bligh Drowned. a Love Affair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 July 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The body of Lady Mary Rose Florence Bligh, fourth daughter of the Earl of Darnley, was found to-day in the…

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District News. Lambton. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 July 1896 · page 3

ON Monday, while driving towards home on the Lambton and Charlestown road, Mrs. Oliver Bedford met with a serious accident. It appears that…

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Accident to the Allowrie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1896 · page 4

The I.S.N. Company's steamer Allowrie met which a mishap on her arrival at the Wollongong Wharf on Monday night. Owing to her bow line parting, the strong wind blowing carried her against the wall…

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A Collision Narrowly Averted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 July 1896 · page 4

Captain T. D. Lewis master of the barque Yale of Doon, which recently arrived at Port Adelaide, reports having had an unpleasant experience when his vessel was coming through Investigator Strait. H…

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District News. Waratah. a Scalding Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 July 1896 · page 3

On Tuesday a baby five weeks old, the child of Mr. Alex. Jones, Ingall-street, died from the effects of scalds received on the previous Wednesday…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Thursday. Severe Accident to the Bishop's Chaplain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 July 1896 · page 8

A horse ridden by the Rev. L P. Crawferd, Bishop's chaplain, bolted down King William-street this afternoon and collided with a dray. The rider was picked up…

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A Painful Accident. Boy's Arm Taken Off

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1896 · page 8

A VERY painful accident happened at Arnott's Steam Biscuit Factory shortly after breakfast yesterday morning whereby a young man named Walter Jas. Gregory, a resident of…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Another Burning Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1896 · page 5

A GIRL named Bedilie Caffrey, 14, residing with her uncle, in Abercrombie-street, Golden Grove, was admitted to Sydney Hospital this morning by Dr. Menzies,…

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Horse Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 July 1896 · page 8

On Saturday afternoon the owners of two horses named respectively Freetrade and Doddy proceeded to Rutherford with a number of friends, to test the Speed of the…

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Greta. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 July 1896 · page 7

Mr. William Anderson, an old and well-known miner employed at the Greta Colliery, met with a nasty accident on Saturday whilst engaged at…

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Double Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 8

Yesterday forenoon the police at West Maitland received telegraphic information from the Tea Gardens to the effect that a double drowning fatality occurred at Tahlee…

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Collision at Westport

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 4

AT Westport (N.Z.), on Saturday last, the steamer Brunner, whilst dropping down to the wharf, collided with the American barquentine Mary Winkleman, and considerably damaged the vessel…

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The Woolloomooloo in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 8

A SERIOUS collision took place on July 12 in the English Channel between the steamer Woolloomooloo, homeward bound from Sydney, and the steam collier Emerald. The…

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