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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

344 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 18

Toronto. a Painful Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 July 1901 · page 3

Mr. B[?]rt Pickles, of Lorne township, met with a painful accident on Wednesday last. He was engaged carting material for the improvement of his property when he…

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A Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1901 · page 4

At an early hour on Saturday morning the steamer St. Ronald, of the Howard Smith line, which had left with a full cargo of produce for Sydney and Newcastle, collided with a dredge engaged in…

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Disastrous Collision. the Caesar Beached

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Weimar, a vessel of 5318 tons, while bound for Australia, and the German steamer…

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Fatality at Cockle Creek

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1901 · page 5

An Austrian named Thomas Vidoserich, employed by the Sulphide Works, at Cockle Creek, died yesterday from the result of injuries received at the works on the previous…

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The State Parliament. Thursday, July 25. Legislative Assembly. the Address-in-reply. Miners' Accident Relief Fund. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1901 · page 5

The Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock. Mr. Burgess, member for Young, took the oath of allegiance and subscribed the…

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Accident to the Willyama

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 July 1901 · page 4

The Adelaide S.S. Co's steamer Marloo, which left Albay on the 22nd inst, fell in with the steamer Willyama (another of the Adelaide S.S. Co's vessels). The Wiilyama, which had lost her…

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Another Alpine Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 July 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Mr. Davis, a Croydon shipowner, was killed on the Diberg Alps by falling a distance of 300 feet…

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A Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1901 · page 5

The island steamer Mambare, which arrived at Sydney yesterday afternoon, brought details of a fatal accident which occurred through the capsizing of a boat. Two…

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A Sydney Letter. Is It Plague?—that Shooting Case.—the Gentleman Who Was Wanted From N. Zealand.—"another Tram Accident—also a Jury's Recommendation.—john Chinaman Disappearing in New South Wales.—was the Duke Ducked by Neptune. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 August 1901 · page 3

You should have seen the face of Sydney yesterday morning. By "face" I mean the composite expression of the community. It was dismalness itself intermingled…

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New Lambton. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 August 1901 · page 7

On Wednesday a youth named Marsh met with a painful accident, whereby he received a broken thigh, while working as a driver in the Hetton pit…

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A Sensational Accident. a Verandah Fell. Twenty Persons Injured. Quirindi in Gloom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 August 1901 · page 5

The annual polo carnival at Quirinidi, which always attracts a large gathering of the surrounding pastoralists, together with metropolitan visitors, and has hitherto…

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Collision in the Irish Channel Seven Lives Lost

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 August 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Friday:—The White Star Liner, Oceanic, ran down the steamer Kincora in the Irish Channel during a thick fog. Seven of the Kincora's crew…

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Collapse of a Race Stand Many Persons Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 August 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Forty persons were injured, many seriously, by the collapse of a stand at a race meeting at Paisley, Scotland…

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District News. Wallsend Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 August 1901 · page 5

The fortnightly meeting of the local board was held at Hetherington's Hotel on Friday evening last. The income from all sources was shown to be £25 9s 7½d, while…

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Fatal Fall of Earth. One Man Killed. Two Seriously Injured. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1901 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred last night in the Proprietary mine, resulting in the death of one man, and serious injury to two others. John Harvey Thomas. Charles…

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The "Manly" Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1901 · page 5

The Marine Court, comprising his Honor Judge Backhouse and assessors (Captain D. Dakin and C. Taylor and William Lodder, engineer), commenced an inquiry this…

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The Herga-lady Mabel Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 5

The Court of Marine Inquiry, consisting of his Honor Judge Backhouse add Captains Mark Breach and H. Witherspoon yesterday continued its…

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The Fullerton Cove Case. Death Caused by Drowning. the Body Identified

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 5

Mr. G. C. Martin, the district coroner, held a magisterial inquiry at the Claren don Hotel, Hunter-street West, yesterday afternoon, concerning the finding of the…

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Morpeth. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1901 · page 8

Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Thos. Cradick, licensee of the Royal Hotel, slipped whilst passing along a passage in the house and sustained severe injuries…

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Strange Poisoning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1901 · page 5

A sad poisoning case is reported from West Australia. At the home of John Barnard Rudkin, a settler near King River, east of Albany, resulting…

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