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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

288 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 15

Accident on Northern Breakwater

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 5

At a late hour last night Mr. E. M'Grath, coxswain of the Navigation Department's launch Mabel, was advised from Signal Hill teat cries had boon heard emanating…

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Boating Fatality. Melbourne

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

Owing to a drowning accident the Victorian Rowing Association yesterday indefinitely postponed its pair-oared championship…

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Teralba Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1906 · page 7

The inquest concerning the death of George Hugh Linton Cottel, the young man who was killed in the air-shaft now being sunk on the Borehole Colliery…

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Fatality at Lambton. a Miner Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1906 · page 5

A man named William Jacobson was killed by a fall of roof at Lambton Colliery yesterday afternoon, and one of his working mates, named John Avery,…

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Lambton Fatality. Inquest Commenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 3

At the Lambton Courthouse yesterday, before Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, and a jury of six, an inquest was hold on the body of Peter William Jacobson, who…

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Floods in Arizona. Fifty People Drowned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 5

Disastrous floods have occurred in Arizona, in the United States. A dam was destroyed, and wrecked the Copper Queen Hotel and the…

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Lambton Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 7

The inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Peter William Jacobson, a miner, who was killed in Lambton Colliery on Wednesday, was continued at…

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Railway Accident. Several Persons Injured. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 December 1906 · page 5

An unusual railway accident is reported from France. A bar of iron which was protruding from a goods train struck the Peninsular express…

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Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 4

At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, hold an inquest into the circumstances of the death of Frederick Rasmussen, seaman,…

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Japanese Sailors Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—During a squall at Shunghai, sampans which were conveying 95 Japanese bluejackets to the cruiser Shitose were swamped,…

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Miners' Accident Relief Act. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 December 1906 · page 5

George Laurence Smith, William Thomas Fraser, J. T. Memory, T. Hilder, David Blunt, George Coulson, and Hooke appealed to the High Court to-day…

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Marine Court Inquiry. Macleay-tarshaw Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 5

Judge Backhouse (with Captain Carpenter and Captain Fell as asessors) held an inquiry to-day into the Macleay-Tarshaw collision, at Newcastle…

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Grantham Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Board of Trade inquiry into the recent terrible railway accident at Grantham shows that it was due to the driver's…

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Shooting Fatality. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 December 1906 · page 5

James Price, aged 40, an attendant at the Callen Park Hospital for insane, was accidentally shot on Saturday night by the medical superintendant, Dr. Davidson…

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Fatality at Pelaw-main

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 December 1906 · page 6

A fatal accident occurred on Friday evening at the Pelaw-Main Colliery to a lad named John Henry Hallum, a set-rider, 16 years of age, living with his…

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Drowning Fatality

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

A boy named Alvin Cecil Kelly, 10 years of age, a son of Mr. Daniel Kelly, a carter, residing at Hannell-street, Wickham, was drowned in Throsby…

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Wickham Drowning Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1906 · page 5

At the Wickham police station yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest into the circumstances of the death of the lad Alvin Cecil Kelly, who…

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Steamship Accidents. a Captain Shoots Himself. London

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

The Hamburg American tourist liner Prinzessin Victoria Luise steaming without a pilot, was stranded pear Port Royal, Jamaica…

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Killed by a Winch. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1906 · page 4

An inquiry into the death of Gustav Forgenson, which occurred on board the steamer Thode Fagelund on Tuesday, was held at the courthouse Newcastle,…

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Tarshaw-macleay Collision. Sydney

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

As the outcome of the Tarshaw-Macleay collision in Newcastle Harbour on November 13, Edwin Balfour, master of the steamer Tarshaw, appeared before the…

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