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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

267 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 14

Carrington. Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 6

An accident happened to a lad named George Robinson, son of Mr. Thomas Robinson, which has turned out to be far more serious than at first imagined. Whilst…

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Maitland District the East Greta Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 June 1900 · page 8

Mr. G. F Scott, P.M., District Coroner, held a magisterial inquiry at the courthouse on Saturday afternoon concerning the death by drowning of…

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A Hull Mate and Four Seamen Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 June 1900 · page 4

Information has been received regarding a sad disaster which overtook the chief officer and four of the crew of the Wilson liner Vasco. On the…

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Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1900 · page 5

Early this morning a report was received from Carrington stating that a man, whose name is unknown, fell over Carrington Bridge shortly…

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Loss of Cattle by Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1900 · page 8

Mr. J. K. Mackay, of Dungog, sustained a heavy loss of fat cattle by drowning yesterday morning in the Hunter River near Melville Bridge. Mr. Penfold, Mr. Mackay's…

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The Supposed Drowning Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1900 · page 5

It has transpired that the drawing case reported as having occurred at about 10 o'clock yesterday morning is not of such a serious nature as it was thought to be…

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International News. Disastrous Railway Accident. a Train Falls Into a River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Heavy rains damaged the line at MacDonough, Hlinois (U.S), and a train fell into a river. Some of the cars went on fire,…

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Accident to General Ian Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—General Ian Hamilton has had a collarbone broken by a fall from his horse…

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A Horse Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 June 1900 · page 8

Mr. Patrick Markham had the misfortune to lose a fine horse by drowning in the river near Melville Bridge on Tuesday. A man named Henry…

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Jesmond. Fatal Shooting Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 June 1900 · page 7

A fatal shooting accident occurred at. Pratten's slaughteryard about noon yesterday, when a boy named David Stokes, aged 13 years and 9 months,…

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The Jesmond Fatality. Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 7

Mr. G. C. Martin, district coreaer, held an inquest yesterday morning at Sneddon's Hotel touching the death of the boy David. Stokes, who died from the effects of a…

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District News. New Lambton. the Shooting Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 7

Deep regret is expressed for Mr. John Dent and family over the circumstances in which their son is connected with the recent shooting fatality at…

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District News. Carrington. Burning Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 7

A little girl, about 4 years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O'Neil, of Smart-street, was seriously burnt yesterday morning. Mrs. O'Niel was out in the yard at the time…

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Maitland District Accident at East Greta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 8

A lad named Robert Burns, son of Mr. James Burns, butcher, of East Greta, met with a painful accident on Thursday afternoon, while playing in…

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The Oratava in Collision. Sinks a German Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 July 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The Oratava, with 1200 troops on board for South Africa, in a fog collided with and sank the German steamer Bremen off…

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Compulsory Arbitration Bill. Miners' Accident Fund Bill. Meeting at Merewether

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 5

Mr. Edden, M.P. addressed a public meeting in the Merewether School of Arts last evening on the provisions of the Compulsory Arbitration Bill. The meeting…

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Accident at Morpeth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 8

On Wednesday last a youth named Edward Newton met with a serious accident at Morpeth. It appears that Newton, who is employed at D. Sim and…

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Miners' Accident Relief Bill SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 5

Mr. Arthur Griffith has given notice that ho will move the following amendmeats in the above bill:— Clause 14: The board may—(a) Invest any…

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District News. Greta. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1900 · page 7

Mr. F. Southwell, letter-carrier here, and who was only married last week, met with a rather severe accident en Friday afternoon. On returning from the delivery of the…

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Greta. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 8

Mr. F. Berg, masters' weighman at the mine, caused a severe sprain to one of his ankles by jumping over a creek when coming home from work on Friday afternoon…

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