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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

309 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16

Cab Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 3

The circumstances connected with the death of James Fraser, aged 67, who died at tine Newcastle Hospital on the 3rd inst., from the effects of injuries received in…

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Miners' Accident Fund. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 5

In No. 2. Jury Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury an interesting action in connection with the Miners' Accident Relief Fund was brought by the…

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Minmi. Accident Relief

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 6

The committee of Brown's No. 2 and 4 collieries met in the ambulance shed. Mr. R. Arbuckle presided. The income was £20 11s 9d, and the expenditure for three accidents, one…

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West Wallsend. Accident Funds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 September 1904 · page 3

The Seaham Colliery Accident Fund Committee met in Watson's Hotel. Mr. J. Lawson the secretary submitted, the statement, which showed the income to be…

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The Cab Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 September 1904 · page 7

Sir,—In regard to the late cab fatality, and the differences between the witnesses' evidence as to the position of deceased, in such matters would it not have been…

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A Child Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 September 1904 · page 5

Yesterday a little girl named Ellen Nicholson, aged three years, a daughter of Mr. F. P. Nicholson, residing at Macquarie-street, Plattsburg, was drowned…

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Motor-car Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 September 1904 · page 5

A motor car accident occurred to-day at Tom Ugly's Point, near George's River, when two ladies sustained severe injuries. Mrs. Hyland, who is staying at the Hotel…

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Fatality in Hungary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 September 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—During some military manoeuvres in Hungary eight soldiers were killed, and six fatally wounded, while holding a balloon…

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Sulky Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 September 1904 · page 5

Mr. T. Aubrey, the well-known city butcher, met with a serious accident by being thrown out of a sulky at Islington last night. The accident was witnessed…

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Maitland District Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 September 1904 · page 6

A youth named Michael Farrell, employed as a jig-boy in South Greta Collery, while engaged at his work yesterday morning was struck on the head by…

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Distressing Fatality. a Child Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 September 1904 · page 5

A distressing accident, resulting in the death of a child named William Hatch Toll aged 3 years and 10 months occurred un Hannell-street, Wickham between one…

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Fishing Party's Mishap. One Man Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1904 · page 4

Further particulars have been received of the mishap which occurred to a fishing party south of Norah Head on the 13th instant, and results in a man named Robert…

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Rescued From Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 September 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—While Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, and Mr. A. Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, were golfing at…

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Warships in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 3

The English [?]s which have reached Sydney contain full particulars of the collision between the two British war vessels off Scilly, on August 13 last, and the…

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Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 September 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Randall Thomas Davidson, who it at present paying a visit to the United States,…

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Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Two passenger trains from Knoxville came into collision at Newmarket, Tennessee (U.S.), owing to the drivers mistaking a…

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Accident to the Onyx

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 4

Cable advice has been received that the barque Onyx, which met with a mishap last week, sailed again on Thursday from Kaipara for Melbourne. The Onyx, while outward…

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The Rutherford Fatality. a Jockey Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 October 1904 · page 6

A fatal accident occurred at Rutherford racecourse on Saturday afternoon, during the progress of the Maitland Hospital races. Boy Jim, ridden by Leslie Bushell,…

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Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 3

The Wallsend committee of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund met at Hetherington's Hotel on Friday evening. From a statement submitted it was shown that the income for the last…

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Minmi. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 6

On Friday evening last the committee of Brown's No. 2 and 4 collieries met in the ambulance shed. Mr. R. Arbuckle presiding. The income was shown to be £19…

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