Drowning Fatality
LONDON, Monday.—During a regatta on the Potomac River (U.S.) on Saturday a launch capsized, ten people being drowned…
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Accidents, 1904
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Alpine Fatality
LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Gurney, the principal of the Durham College of Science, has been killed while climbing the Alps…
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The Sydney Underwriters' and Salvage Association have been notified that the American four-masted ship Roanoke, bound from New York to Melbourne and Sydney, had been in…
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News has been received from Noumea that the French barque Benneveine. Captain Pommies, which left New Caledonia on January 1, came into collision, when ten miles north-west…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A fall of masonry and earth in the Yrysddu Colliery at Newport imprisoned seventeen of the miners. Ten were rescued. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Greta. Accident to a Photographer
On Wednesday morning a photographer passed through Greta with two horses and a van. Some two hours afterwards, he was found by Mr. A. Leaver, lying on the…
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Yesterday morning a minor named Alexander Falls was seriously injured in the Sea Pit by a fall of coal. He had gone on at six o'clock, and was working with his…
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The committee of Brown's Nos. 2 and 4 Collieries met in the ambulance shed. Mr. R. Arbuckle presided. The income as shown, was £20 9s 2d. and the expenditure for five…
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Mr. T. B. Warland, foreman at Messrs. T. O'Sullivan and Co.'s slip, met with an accident yesterday morning, while at work taking the schooner Bell Flower on the…
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SYDNEY.—Wednesday.—Mr. Iwasaki, the Japanese Consul-General in Sydney, has received the following message from Baron Komura, Japanese Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Wallsend. Accident Funds
The Seaham Colliery Miners' Accident Fund committee met in Wilson's hotel. Mr. J. Lawson submitted the statement, which showed the income to be £17 11s 9d, and the…
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A parity, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. S. Rees, Mrs. Spurrier and a child, had on unpleasant experience while driving along Rawson-street in a sulky. Mr. Rees was…
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The miner, Alexander Faulds, who was injured on the 19th instant by a fall of coal and stone in the pillar workings of what is known as Watt's heading in the A.A…
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A serious accident happened to a young man named George Perrixe, wheeler at the Hebburn Colliery, late on Friday afternoon. The unfortunate man was wheeling his skip, when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kurri Fatality. Accidental Death
The circumstances connected with the death of Joseph M'Closkey, aged 35, who died at the Wallsend Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, from the effects of injuries…
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The death of an old-age pensioner named Edith Hinton, aged 80 years, whose body was found in a bath at the Waratah Benevolent Asylum on Wednesday, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charlestown Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death
The District Coroner, Mr. C. Hibble, held a magisterial inquiry at the Courthouse, Charlestown, yesterday morning into the death of the little girl Alice Cameron,…
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LONDON, Saturday.—A railway collision has occurred at Indian Head, Canada, by which five persona were killed…
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LONDON, Saturday.—A collision has occurred in the Thames between the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waimate and the German…
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LONDON, Monday.—As a passenger train was going over a street crossing at St. Louis, Missouri, at a speed of 30 miles an hour, it dashed into a…
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