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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Attempt on Alfonso. Twenty Persons Injured. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

King Alfonso was perfectly cool after the attempted assassination, and smilingly saluted the cheering crowds in the street…

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Accident to Clara Butt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Mrs. Kennerley Rumford, better known as Clara Butt, the famous contralto singer, and her husband were beating on the Thames…

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Sulky Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 7

Robert Boyd sued William Sansom for £50, for damages to a horse and carriage, alleged to have been caused by the negligent and unskilful driving…

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Mining Fatality. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred to-day at the Virginia Mine, Eaglehawk. Last night there was a mis-fire in one of the boreholes, and men were warned…

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Marine Court Inquiry. Peterborough-jessie Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 5

The circumstances attending the collision which took place on May 19, off Sydney Heads, between the steamer Peterborough and the ketch Jessie, in which the latter…

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West Wallsend. Accident Funds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 2

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

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Collision at Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company's express mail steamer Isis coldided with, and sank the Turkish…

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The Euryalus in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1905 · page 4

The steamer Euryalus was in collision in Colombo Harbour recently. A report dated Colombo, May 23, says:—"The Euryalus, which was anchored on the Kochehikadde side of the…

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Junction. Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1905 · page 6

Mr. Thomas Blatchford, a miner employed at the Sea Pit, met with a painful accident yesterday. He was engaged working a top band, and had not been at…

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Mining Fatality. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 5

Two men were killed to-day in the South Mine, at Broken Hill. Their names are W. Noble, miner, and H. Edwards, 30, filler. Both were married, and had…

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Railway Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 11

A railway accident afford fine chances to the unscrupulos to make a modest little bit of money without much trouple, provided always it is possible to…

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Fatality at East Greta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 5

Mr. John Tiedeman, a well-known miner, was fatally injured by a fall lot coal in East Greta Colliery, on Saturday morning, and died before his comrades bad reached…

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Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—A collision occurred yesterday between a passenger and a coal train at Westminster, Maryland (U.S.). Twenty-three…

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Accident Epidemic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 7

An unusual number of accidents, some slight and some fatal, occurred in Brisbane last week. In the first place an elderly man named J…

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Seaman Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 June 1905 · page 5

At about midnight on Saturday a German seaman named Max, belonging to the barque Bankleigh, was drowned in the harbour. It appears that the deceased…

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Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 June 1905 · page 6

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

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Collision of Troops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 June 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Two squadrons of Dragoons and Cuirassiers manocuvring at the camp at Valdonne, near Lyons, France, came into collision…

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Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, June 24. Accident to Lady Plunket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 7

The first anniversary of the landing of our Governor and his wife in this colony was mode memorable to Lady Plunket by an unpleasant accident that might easily…

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Miners' Accident Fund. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 4

It is understood that an actuarial examination of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund has recently been made. Although no information of the nature of the report…

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Fatal Burning Accident. Greta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 July 1905 · page 5

An accident occurred yesterday morning by which a bright little girl named Jessie Elizabeth Riley, aged nine years, was burned to death. It appears that the child…

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