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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

309 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 16

Stockton Accident to Mr. Richardson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 3

Mr. R. Richardson, accountant to the firm of Messrs. Potor Callan and Sons, met with an accident on Monday, He was in the vicinity of the planing machine in the…

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Cycling in Melbourne. Taylor Injured. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1904 · page 5

About 20,000 spectators assembled at the Exhibition grounds to-night to see the cycling contests between Taylor and Lawson, and Taylor and M'Farland. The first…

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Boating Fatality. Two Persons Drowned. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5

A boating accident occurred in Moreton Bay on Saturday morning which resulted in the drowning of a girl named Lolia Diary, agent nine years, the…

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Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5

The Wallsend committee of the Accident Relief Fund met at Hatherington's hotel on Friday evening. The statement submitted showed that the income for the…

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Bass' Straits Collision. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 February 1904 · page 4

The Marine Court to-day resumed its investigation into the circumstances of the collision between the steamer Coogee and the ship Fortunate Figarl…

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Mining Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 February 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Seven miners have been killed in a coal pit at Rotherham, in Yorkshire, through the breaking of a rope…

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Railway Collision. Gosford

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 5

A collision occurred in the station yard early this morning between a goods train bound from Sydney to Newcastle and a stock train bound to Flemington. The…

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Barque in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 4

News has been received from Natal stating that the barque Rialto, which left there on the 1st instant for this port, put back next morning, and while, re-entering the harbour…

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Russia's Injured Battleships

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—It appears that there is a rout in the hull of the Russian battleship Retvizan, which was damaged in the first attack of the…

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Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 5

Alfred Gardiner, who was seriously injured in a collision which Look place between a fettlers' trolly and a bicycle on the Sydney railway line yesterday,…

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Accident on the Railway. Ganger and Fettler Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 4

A heavily-laden trolly, going at a fair speed down the incline from the Woy Woy tunnel to Woy Woy yesterday morning, ran into a railway, tricycle and caused…

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Collision in Suez Canal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 5

L0NDON, Friday.—A Russian torpedoer has collided with and sunk an Egyptian revenue cutter in the Suez Canal. The crew of the cutter were…

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Russian Railway Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Tokio correspondent of "The Times" reports that two kilometres (about a mile and a fifth) of the Russian railway from…

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Railway Accident. the Inquest Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 6

The circumstances leading to the death of the railway platelayer. Alfred Gardiner of Kerr's-road. Rookwood, aged about 65 years who died at the Newcastle Hospital…

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Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 5

A drowning accident, resulting in the death of a lad named Frederick Ashton, son of Mr. Paul Ashton, of Steele-street, Newcastle, occurred in the Newcastle…

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Adamstown. Sulky Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 6

While Messrs. G. Bush and D. Blakemore were driving home from Lambton on Sunday night, and were proceeding along the New Lambton-Adamstown road the sulky…

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Minmi. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 3

A meeting of the Accident Relief Fund committee of the Duckenfield Colliery who held in the ambulance shed. Mr. James Cain presided…

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Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 6

The local committee of the Accident Relief Fund met at Hotherington's Hotel on Friday evening. The fortnightly statement showed that the income for the past…

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Drowned in the Basin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 6

Mr. C. Hibble, district, coroner, held a magisterial inquiry at the Family Hotel. Newcastle, yesterday forenoon, concerning the death of the lad Frederick Ashton,…

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District News. West Wallsend. Accident Funds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 6

The Seaham Colliery Accident Relief Fund committee met at Wilson’s hotel. Mr. J. Lawson, the secretary, submitted the fortnightly statement, which showed…

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