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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Drowning Fatality. Paterson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 5

A drowning fatality occurred on Friday at the Queen's Wharf, Paterson. Hugh Gillies Graham, aged 17, eldest son of Mr. Hugh Graham, of Paterson, and lately a…

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Minmi. Accident Relief Funds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 6

On Friday evening the accident committee of Brown's No. 2 and No. 4 collieries met in the ambulance shed. Mr. R. Arbuckle presided. The income for the…

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Killed by a Train. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 February 1906 · page 5

An inquest was held at the courthouse West Wallsend yesterday, by Mr. C. Hibble, coroner into the circumstanced of the death of a young man named…

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Wreck of the Speke. a Sailor Drowned. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 5

The ship Speke, of 2875 tons, Captain Tilotson, has gone ashore at Nobbys, near Cowes, in Westernport Bay She is a total wreck, but her crew, who…

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Wallsend Racing Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 7

Sir,—That part of the report of the Wallsend race meeting published in your journal referring to the accident that happened to the jockey M'Kenzie,…

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Lake Collision. Marine Court Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 7

At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday a Court of Marine Inquiry was held concerning a collision between the steamer Garnet and the sailing boat Womba,…

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An Abermain Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 February 1906 · page 6

An inquest concerning the death of a child Andrew Miller, who died on the 7th January of injuries caused by scalding, at Abermain, on the 5th January, was…

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Jockey Injured. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 February 1906 · page 3

When running in the Stanley Steeple chase, at Caulfield, on Saturday the horse Find Out fell at the last fence, and the Jockey, A. D. Hughes, was injured. An…

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Catherine Hill Bay. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 February 1906 · page 3

The fortnightly meeting of the Wallarah committee of the Accident Relief Fund was held at the mine, Mr. A. H. Parton presiding. It was shown that the…

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Tramcars in Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1906 · page 5

At an early hour to-day two trams collided in Pitt-street, near the railway station, as a result of which four persons were injured, one seriously. The accident is…

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Motor Car Accident. W. K. Vanderbilt Mobbed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1906 · page 5

While motoring with his wife near Pisa, Italy, Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire, knocked down a little girl. The townsfolk mobbed…

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Alpine Climbing. Crossing Mount Cook. No. V. On the Summit of Aorangi—We Commence the Descent—An Ice-glazed Rock Arete—Suspended over a Precipice—We Gain Green's Saddle—A Two-thousand-feet "Couloir"—Cutting steps in a Frozen Slope—Falling Stones—An Accident—The Final Bergschurnd—The Hooker Glacier and Safety—Our Second Sunrise—Return to the Hermitage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 13

"The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars and the cold lunar beams;…

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Wallsend. Accident Relief Fund

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

The ordinary meeting of the Wallsend committee of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund was held at Houston's hotel on Friday evening, when it was shown that…

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Terrific Hurricane. Tahiti Water Swept. Ten Thousand Drowned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 5

A terrific hurricane occurred on the night of the 7th February, which devastated the Islands of Tahiti and Tyomotu, in mid-Pacific…

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Minmi. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 3

On Friday evening the committee of Brown's No. 2 and 4 collieries mot in the ambulance shed, Mr. R. Arbuokic presiding, The income as shown was £20 15s…

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Lambton. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 3

A youth named Andrew Hay, employed by Mr. J. R. Bell, of Lambton, met with an accident yesterday. He was driving down the Reservoir Hill towards Wallsend…

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Catherine Hill Bay. Accident Relief Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 6

The fortnightly meeting of the Wallarah committee of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund was held at the mine. Mr. A. H. Parton presided. It was shown that the…

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Warrimoo-squirrel Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 5

Judge Backhouse sat in the Marine Court to-day with Captains John Mackenzie and Henry Witherspoon as assessore, and delivered judgment in the…

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Found Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 5

An inquest was hold at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday by the Coroner, Mr. Charles Hibble, into the circumstances surrounding the death of an old man…

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Man-o'-warsmen Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Four of the crew of the battleship Duncan have been drowned by the capsizing of a boat in Bantry Bay…

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