The Prevention of Accidents on Railways
"Engineering" says that one of the most useful Acts placed upon the statute book in the session which has just come to an end is the measure which confers upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
Accidents, 1900
267 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 14
The Fatality at the Sea Pit. Inquest and Verdict
Mr. G. C. Martin, the district coroner, held an inquest at the Clarendon Hotel on Saturday into the circumstances surrounding the death of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Earthquake at Caracas. Twenty-five Killed and Many Injured
LONDON, Tuesday.—An earthquake has destroyed the British Legation at Caracas. The Minister had a wonderful escape. During the excitement the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Stockton. Accident at the Colliery
Yesterday morning an elderly miner named George Watt met with a severe accident owing to a all of coal. The injured man was brought out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cardiff. Sad Fatality
About three weeks ago a little boy, about, three years old, son of Mr. Albert Lucas, playing around his residence, put a small stick in his mouth, and while running…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Six Persons Drowned
In connection with the race meeting held on the North Slob course, under the auspices of the Wexford Hunt, a terrible accident occurred, resuiting in the loss of at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatality at the Dyke. Inquest and Verdict
Early yesterday morning, while the four-masted barque Cap Horn, which arrived here on the 20th July last, was engaged loading coal at the No. 11…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stockton. Accident at the Colliery
A timberer named Levi Hodgson, employed at the Stockton Colliery, met with a painful accident yesterday. He was endeavouring to move a prop out of the way of an approaching…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lambton. Accident
An old resident of the town named issac Hutchinson met with a serious accident while it his work yesterday afternoon. He was employed sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Glebe Mining Accident. How Samuel Dawson Was Treated
The death of the miner Samuel Dawson, of Merewether, who succumbed at the Newcastle Hospital on 2nd September last, following upon injuries received by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sydney Letter. Lord Beauchamp and the Injured Child.—the Commonwealth Celebrations.—backward Arrangements.—a Million People in Sydney.—where Are They to Go?—jimmy Governor's Arrival.—criminal Notoriety.—mr. Reid and the Commonwealth Premiership.—the Yorks' Reception. Sydney
Mr. Norton denies having called Lord Beauchamp "a thief." He says that what he did say was this—"He is a snob and a thing." Since being removed from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Tramway Accident
A shocking accident caused by the bolting of a cable car took place in Dunedin. The tram line runs down a steep hill, and, the rails being greasy owing to rain, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drowned at Sea
During the voyage of the barque Pass of Leny from Hamburg to Brisbane, the son of Captain Ball was drowned. The unfortunate lad, who was only 16 years of age, fell from the yardarm into the sea,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Mortality by Accidents
The annual report of the chief officers of the Public Control. Department of the London County Council gives some interesting information…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drowning Fatality
A boy named William Collins, aged 11, was drowned while battling in Tighe's Creek, Georgeville, yesterday. It appears the lad, in company with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dreadful Accident at East Greta Colliery. a Miner Falls Over 400 Feet
A dreadful accident happened the No. 1 tunnel, East Greta Colliery, yesterday morning, in which a miner named John Hunter received injuries of such a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Wallsend. 'Bus Collision
On Monday night the 'buses of Messrs. James and Ackroyd, while attempting to pass in Young Wallsend, crashed into one another, making ruin of harness and badly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →International News. Frightful Railway Disaster Thirteen Persons Killed. Thirty Injured
LONDON, Friday.—A subsidence of the permanent way derailed the Paris to Madrid express, which fell over an embankment near Dax, France…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District the East Greta Colliery Accident
The man John Hunter, who, on Wednesday last fell from the middle level to the bottom of the No. 1 tunnel in East Greta Colliery, a distance of 420 feet, died in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Dax Railway Accident. Great Loss of Jewellery
LONDON, Monday.—The Duchess Canevaro lost jewellery to the value of £40,000 in the recent disastrous railway accident at Dax…
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