Elermore Vale Fatality Inquest Concluded
The inquest into the death of Thomas Aspinall, who died in the Wallsend Hospital on Thursday from the result of injuries received by a tall of coal in the…
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Accidents, 1906
288 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 15
Fatality at Sea. Wellington
As the scow Oban was being towed into Wellington, the tug noticing that the vessel was steering badly dropped back and was shocked to find that the scow's crew,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to Mr. T. M. O'neill
On Sunday morning, while Mr. T. M. O'Neill, manager of the Australian Joint Stock Bank in Newcastle, was descending the steps of St. Mary's Cathedral, after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner in Collision
News has been received by the steamer Moerakl that the schooner Jap had collided with the scow Rambler, while the latter was at anchor in Cloudy Bay. The Rambler…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. Merewether. Miners' Accident Fund
The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Newcastle Coal Company's branch of the Miners' Accident Fund was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. M. Watson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thornton Railway Fatality. Inquest Resumed
The inquest on the engine-driver, James Pead, who died as the result of scalds received on an engine on the 4th December, near Thornton, was resumed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident to a Barque
The Norwegian barque Sara, which arrived at the Semaphore on the 27th ult. from Algoa Bay in ballast, touched on the Mar[?]on Reef, near Troubridge Lighthouse, on the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Other Drowning Fatalities
The season already has been productive of a crop of drowning cases, schoolboys, assisted by Christmas holidays and convenient waterholes, providing much…
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Another of these mournful accidents which of late years appear to have become closely, associated with the holiday season, occurred in Redland Bay, a short…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund
The Wallsend committee of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund met on Friday evening. A statement submitted showed that the income for the past pay amounted to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatality at Coolgardie. Coolgardie
A terrible fatality occurred this morning at the Vale of Coolgardie Mine, Coolgardie, resulting in three men, named Hansen, Gillrey, and Christenson, losing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Omnibus Accident. Resumption of the Inquest
The inquest concerning the death of Philip James Carter, who was finally injured in the omnibus accident at West Wallsend on the 3rd of November, Was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta. Accident to Mrs. Walker
Mrs. Dr. Walker, who was thrown out of the Rev. C. F. Withey's sulky, through the horse stumbling, and falling down, on Sunday evening, 10th December last, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fortunes Made by Accident
In connection with the diamond discoveries in South Africa, and the fabulous wealth Which the mines have since produced, the wide region of fiction offers no…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Waratah. Accident
A girl named Olive Harrison, daughter of Mr. Thomas Harrison, whilst playing with her brother on Sunday slipped and fell backwards againts the wall of their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Barques in Collision
The capitan of the barque Zinita, which arrived at Wallaroo on Saturday from Capetown, reports that at 2 o'clock on Christmas morning, when he was 207 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Fatality. Death of a Boy. Sydney
Mr. J.W. Fletcher to-day opened an inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Henry William Chick, who met with an accident at the Belmore railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Omnibus Accident. Both Drivers Committed
The inquest concerning the death of Philip James Carter, who was fatally injured in the omnibus accident at West Wallsend, on the 3rd of November, 1905,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Serious Accident
A Young man named Walter O'Hearn, sun of Mr. M. O'Hearn, of Holmeville, and employed at East Greta Colliery, sustained dreadful injuries in an accident at East…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coimbatore-zinita Collision. Adelaide
Captain F. H. Macdonald, master of the barque Zinita, has sent to the Marino Department and absent from the official log concerning the collision between his…
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