Ferry Boats in Collision. Sydney
A Marine Court, consisting of Judge Backhouse, with Captains Bracegirdle and Witherspoon as nautical assessors, held an inquiry to-day into the circumstances…
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Accidents, 1905
274 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 14
Railway Fatality
LONDON, Saturday.—A train that was conveying recruits to Genoa collided with a goods trains at Ronco, with the result that seven persons…
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The barque Kirkdale, which for some time has been berthed at Webster's wharf, near the Victoria Bridge, Completed loading, and on Tuesday was…
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A meeting of the committee of Brown's Nos. 2 and 4 collieries was held in the Ambulance Shed. Mr. R. Arbuckle presided The income as shown was £22 7s…
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Mr. William Shephard, in miner employed at Hebburn Colliery, and formerly a resident of Merewether, was killed in the No. 1 pit on Monday night, at about half-past…
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Mr. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., District Coroner, resumed the inquest at Kurri Kurri Court House, yesterday morning, into the circumstances connected with the…
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Mr. John E. Teideman, who is employed as a wheeler in East Greta Colliery, had his right hand crushed by a falling lump of coal at the colliery yesterday morning…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Whilst shunting at Huddersfield yesterday an engine came into collision with a train from Bradford…
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The postmaster and storekeeper, Mr. B. Thomas, when driving between Barnsley and Holmesville on Thursday sustained a serious accident. His cart…
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Mr. George Wilson, of Gipp-street, met with an accident on Saturday morning which resulted in severe injuries to his right thigh. Mr. Wilson,…
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The bill to enable action against shipowners upon whose vessels accidents might occur to workmen loading or discharging cargo or doing other work, has been introduced in the House…
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LONDON, Saturday.—An explosion occurred yesterday at the Rochester Pittsburg Coal Co.'s mined, at Du Bois, in the United States, by which 10…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District ("Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland.) Stanford-merthyr Fatality
The adjourned Inquest on the body of Thomas Tate, who was killed Stanford Merthyh Colliery on the 31st March, was resumed before Mr. Sharp, District Coroner…
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At the Cessnock races on Saturday, Melville Logue, a well-known Newcastle jockey, was seriously injured by a fall from the mare Lady Stockwell, in the…
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An inquest was held yesterday at Dora Creek by the district coroner, Mr. C. Hibble, regarding the death of a youth named David James Gardiner, who was…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—While unpacking oxygen cylinder's for a lantern lecture at a school at Winterthur, in Switzerland, an explosion killed an…
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The last fortnightly meeting of the Wallsend committee of the Accident Relief Fund showed that the income for the past period amounted to £24 17s 3d, and…
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A boating accident occurred in the river shortly after midday on Saturday, and was attended by fatal results, a man named Francis Thomas Wilson and a…
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On Saturday morning the eight o'clock tram from Rose Bay got out of control. On reaching Darling Point, a regular stopping place, the driver attempted to pull up, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District ("Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland.) the Hebburn Colliery Fatality
The adjourned inquest concerning the death of the late William Shephard who was killed in Hebburn Colliery on the 17th April, was concluded at the Kurri…
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