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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

267 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14

The Miners' Accident Fund Bill. Conference at the Trades Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1900 · page 4

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture, the Hon. J. L. Fogan, the Under-Secretary. for the Mines Department, Mr. D.C.' M'Lachian, and Mr. Trevit, actuary to the…

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Fatality Near Morpeth. a Fearful Accident. Man Gored to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 August 1900 · page 8

Mr. William Larkin Foreman, of Raworth near Morpeth, met with a terrible death yesterday morning from being gored by a bull, his own proporty. It appears…

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The Fatality Near Morpeth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 August 1900 · page 8

A magisterial inquiry w-as held at the courthouse, Morpeth, yesterday morning, concerning the circumstances attending the death of William Larkin Foreman,…

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A Railway Tampered With. Serious Disaster. Heavy List of Killed and Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The enemy removed the rails near Frederickstad. A supply train was in consequence derailed, and the driver and 12 of the…

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The Prevention of Raiway Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 9

Experiments have been made at Vershbolovo Station, on the St. Petersburg and Warsaw-read, with an invention of Mr. Nikolaleff, designed both to give warning…

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Drowning Fatality at West Wallsend. Body Unidentified

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 August 1900 · page 5

Between 9 and 10 o'clock yesterday morning a man named John Allen reported to Constable Duffield, stationed at Cockle Creek, that he had found…

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Adamstown. Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1900 · page 8

Mr. Thomas Roisor, a young man, son of Miss Roison, a widow, a Narana-road met with a serious accident yesterday morning while following his occupation as…

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Collision in Sydney Harbour. the Brighton Beached

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1900 · page 7

Later details of the collision which occurred in Sydney on Tuesday night between the Manly ferry steamer Brighton and the collier Brunner show…

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A Sydney Letter the Harbour Collision.—general Baden-powell's Present.—the Sailing of the Salamis.—incidents in the Naval Procession.—a Strange Case of Poisoning.—those Native Names.—another Street Murder. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 August 1900 · page 3

The big harbour collision so long expected has occurred at last, though without the expected loss of life, though latter is the result of two things—the cairnness of…

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Drowned in Cockle Creek

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1900 · page 5

Information was received by the Newcastle police yesterday to the effect that a married woman named Margaret Lewis was drowned early in…

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Greta. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1900 · page 5

A little boy, four years of age, con of Mr. John Walker, contractor, Anvil Creek, whilst playing with some more children near his father’s residence, fell off a log and fractured…

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Fatality at Carrington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 August 1900 · page 5

A seaman named George Olsen met his death in rather a peculiar manner last evening. He was walking along the inner basin with a shipmate named…

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The Brighton-brunner Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 August 1900 · page 4

The work of floating the steamer Brighten is proceeding satisfactorily. The contractors, Messrs. scott and Goodsir, have a large staff of men employed, and expect to place the steamer in dock…

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Drowning Fatality at West Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1900 · page 4

Constable Duffell, stationed at West Wallsend, in a report to Inspector Lynch, states that about 6.30 a.m. yesterday the body of a woman named Sarah Ann…

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The Brighton-brunner Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1900 · page 5

The Marine Court inquiry into the collision which occurred in Sydney harbour between the steamers Brunner and Brighton oil August 7th was…

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Miners' Accident Fund. the Hewing Rate. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 5

A conference between the Premier, the Minister for Mines, and the colliery proprietors of the northern district was held in Sydney this afternoon, at which the…

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A Painful Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1900 · page 8

A man named Michael M' Mahon met with a painful accident near flour Mile Creak on Monday afternoon. He was on the top of a load, of wood, when the horse stumbled…

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A Sad Boating Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 2

A disastrous boating accident, whereby sixteen Maori children and two adults lost their lives, occurred the other day on the east coast of Auckland, near a small town…

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Jesmond. Fatality on the Football Ground

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 7

A young man named Robert Clement, ago 21 years, died suddenly in Croudace's Paddock on Saturday afternoon, while engaged in friendly game of football. He was seen…

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Miners' Accident Relief Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 August 1900 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly this morning, Mr. Fegan, Minister for Mines, in committee, moved the expediency of bringing in a bill to provide for allowances to…

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