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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

344 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 18

H.m.s. Hood in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—H.M.S. Hood, fouled a French mail steamer at Malta, losing two boats. A smart evolution of the ironclad averted a…

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Warships in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—H.M.S. Centurion, the British Flagship, while at Woosung, dragged her anchors during the night and fouled H.M.S. Glory…

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Fatality on the Railway. a Shunter Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1901 · page 5

Shortly after 10 o'clock on Saturday morning a young man named Ernest Sara, employed on the Government railways at Newcastle as a shunter, met his…

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Miners Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1901 · page 8

Sir,—Mr. James Curley, secretary[?] the C.E.F., wrote in your issue of 16[?] March, in reply to mine of the 14th March but as the elections' meetings were the…

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District News. Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1901 · page 5

The fortnightly meeting of the local board connected with this fund was held on Friday evening last. The income from all sources was £25 17s 1½d. and…

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The Investigator Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 4

The Adelaide Marine Board has decided that the steamer Incest gates was solely responsible for the recent collision with the schooner May Webster for Large Bay. It consured the master, Charles…

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Tragic Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 3

The mistake of the girl who in shooting at M. Descbanel in Paris shot her own friend was as tragle and terrible as it could be. It recalls says a writer the once at…

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Turkish Transport Wrecked. Two Hundred Soldiers Drowned

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

LONDON, Wednesday.—A Turkish transport was wrecked in the Red Sea. Two thousand five hundred troops and 100 pilgrims were aboard. The…

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Miners' Accident Fund. the Payment of Committees

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

Mr. J. L. Fegan wrote the following letter on the 3rd March, while the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, to the officers of the Colliery Employees' Federation:—…

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The Dovedale-silver Cloud Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 5

David Morgan, mute of the steamer Dovedale, appeared before the Marine Court this afternoon to show cause why his certificate should not be…

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Hexham. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 5

An accident which might have proved total occurred at Ironbark Hill Yesterday morning to Mr. A. Green, it appears that Mr. E. Maher was going up the hill…

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Lambton. Fire Accident

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

Gwladys Oldham, aged 4 years, the daughter of Mr. W. Oldham, of Kendall-street was severely burnt about the head and body yesterday morning. The child…

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Railway Fatality Another Shunter Killed Crushed by a Buffer. An Extraordinary Coincidence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 5

A few minutes before 7 o'clock last evening the Newcastle goods yards was the scene of another fatality, by which Shunter Martin P. Kane lost his…

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The Railway Fatality. Inquest and Verdict. How the Accident Happened

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 6

An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Martin Kane, the railway shunter who was killed on Wednesday evening, was held…

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The Railway Fatality. Funeral of the Victim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 6

The sincere sorrow felt for Mrs. Kane by the death of her son Martin Kane, the shunter who was killed on the railway near the Newcastle Station on Wednesday…

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The Hetton Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1901 · page 5

The district officers next brought under notice the accident to a miner named David Hamilton at the Hetton Colliery by a fall of coal. The accident occurred at…

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Sydenham Railway Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 4

The City Coroner resumed his inquest to-day into the death of Herbert Henry Darnley, who was killed in the railway accident near Sydenham station on February…

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Collision with an Iceberg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 4

A few days before the steamer Australian left Kobe for Sydney the Canadian-Pacific liner Tartar arrived from Tacoma Wash in a badly-damaged condition. Her intended destination was…

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A Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 8

A lad named Norman Moore, aged about 14 years, son of Mr. George Moore, the well-known Maitland confectioner, had a marrow escape from…

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The Recent Accident at Hetton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 May 1901 · page 7

Sir,—I notice in your issue of to-day that statements are made ill refrence to the above accident. Having made inquiry into the above as to the…

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