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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Balloon Accident. a Woman's Bravery. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 5

An extraordinary balloon accident has occurred at Middleton, New York. As Miss Daly, an aeronaut, was ascending, a rope hanging from the…

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A Vancouver Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 September 1906 · page 4

An accident of a nature, which is, happily rare in the history of Vancouver took pace this afternoon (says the Vancouver "World" of July 30. The steamer Cheballs, owned by…

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A Sydney Letter. Mr. Ashton Strikes a Note—no Time!—the Way We Weight Ourselves with Detail.—mr. Fitzgerald and Municipalism.—that Sailing Fatality and Its Lesson.—the Norwegian Strain.—the Use of Trade Names That Mislead. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 7

Mr. Ashton has said something which is likely to be much debated—"It is beyond the power of man for a Minister for Lands to give anything like close…

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Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 3

Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the circumstances of the death of James Tollhurst, who was…

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Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 September 1906 · page 3

Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, held an inquiry yesterday morning, at the courthouse, Lambton, into the death of Herbert Andrew Kennedy, aged 7, who…

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Motor Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A fatal motor accident occurred on Saturday at Hounslow, near London. A car in which the Duchess of Connaught and…

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Waratah Junction Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 7

An inquest wan hold yesterday at the residence of Mr. Henry Crowther, Waratah, by the District Coroner, Mr. C. Hibble, concerning the death of the boy Alfred…

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Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A train has been precipitated into the Cimarron River, at Dover, Oklabama, in the United States, owing to the track…

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Oklahama Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The fatalities occasioned in Oklahama by a train falling down an embankment into the Cimarron River number 20. The…

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Schooner in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 4

The American schooner King Cryus arrived at San Francisco last month badly damaged by collision. The collision occurred on August 5, about 21 miles south-west of…

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Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The mail train for Wabash, in Indiana, while travelling at the rate of 70 miles on hour, collided with a goods train at…

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Burning Fatality. Mother and Children Die. Auckland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 5

A cottage, occupied by Mr. H. H. Hutt, creamery manager, and belonging to the New Zealand Dairy Association, situated at Te Awamutu, was destroyed by fire last…

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Salisbury Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 October 1906 · page 5

LONDN, Sunday—Major Pringle, one of the Board of Trade officials, who was appointed to inquire into the cause of the derailing of the…

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New Lambton. Fatal Gun Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 October 1906 · page 5

About half-past four on Saturday afternoon a young man named William Marsh met with a gun accident, the effects of which proved fatal. It appears that, in…

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Lambton. Buggy Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 October 1906 · page 5

While Mrs. Buckley, of Waratah, and her two daughters were driving over to Lambton yesterday afternoon, and when near the corner of…

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District News Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 October 1906 · page 5

The Wallsend committee of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund met it Housten's Hotel on Friday evening. The income for the fortnight amounted to £33 12s 4½d,…

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The New Lambton Fatality. the Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 3

Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest at New Lambton Police Station yesterday into the circumstances of the death of William Marsh, who died on…

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The Balloon Race. Santos Dumont Injured. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 5

One of the balloons which started from Paris on Sunday in the competition for the Gordon Bennett Cup was the Britannia, piloted by the Hon. C…

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East Greta. Accident Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 6

A meeting of the miners' accident relief fund was held in the colliery office, East Greta, on Monday afternoon, Mr. J. Rees, the manager, being in the chair. The…

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Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 4

At the police station, Merewether, yesterday, Mr. G. T. Edwards, deputy coroner, hold an inquest into the death of Andrew Summers, aged 2 years and 3 months, who…

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