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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

288 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 15

Tramway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—An electric tramcar rushed down a hill at Halifax, Yorkshire, yesterday, and was wrecked. Two people were killed,…

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Colliery Disaster. Three Men Drowned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 5

Owing to a food, six men were imprisoned in the Caradoc Vale Colliery, Glamorganshire. Three of the men were drowned…

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Tramway Fatality. a Miscreant's Work. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 5

A miscreant released a car on the mountain tramway between the mining towns of Puritan and Portage, Pennsylvania, and it dashed down at…

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Salisbury Railway Accident. Sympathy of the Queen. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 5

Queen Alexandra, through Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambassador in London, has expressed her heartfelt sorrow at the terrible…

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The Accident on the S.s. Hawk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1906 · page 5

Robert Alfred Farrell, who was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital on the 18th of June, suffering from a severe fracture of the leg, caused by the limb being caught…

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Accident on the S.s. Hawk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 5

The inquest concerning the death of Robert Alfred Farrell was resumed by the Coroner, Mr. Hibble, at the courthouse yesterday afternoon…

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Minmi. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 6

On Thursday, at midday, an accident happened to Mr. A. P. Megin whilst engaged in the construction of a building at Brown's workshops. Part of the…

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Motor Omnibus Accident. Ten Persons Killed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 5

A motor omnibus going from London to Brighton overturned on Hand-cross Hill. The omnibus carried 36 persons,…

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Blasting Fatality. Rockhampton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 5

A blasting accident happend at the Mount Chalmers Copper Mine this afternoon, resulting in the death of a young man named Ernest Neale, aged 24…

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Silver Cloud in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 4

The barquentine Silver Cloud, well known at Newcastle no a trader between this port and New Zealand, was in collision in Auckland Harbour on the 5th instant with the…

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Miner Blown to Pieces. Broken Hill Fatality. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 5

A shocking fatality occurred at Block 14 Mine this morning, which resulted in the death of one man, and the injury of another, the former being literally blown…

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Quarter Sessions. Monday, July 16. (Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.) West Wallsend Omnibus Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 3

Harold Robert Wicks, who had been found guilty of manslaughter in connection with a coaching accident at the Court of Quarter Sessions held at…

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The Port Jackson Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 4

Advices by the English mail state that the damage sustained by the four-masted barque Port Jackson, outward bound from London for Sydney, proved to be extensive, though it…

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Tram Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A serious collision has occurred between two electric trams on the line from Rome to Frascati. Two persons were killed…

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Buninyong-criffel Collision. Evidence Closed. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 5

The hearing was continued in the Vice-admiralty Court to-day, before Sir William Owen, Deputy Judge Commissary, of the action in which Messrs. Greenshields…

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Electra-energy Collision. Energy Held to Blame. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 4

Sir William Owen, Deputy Judge Commissary in Vice-admiralty, delivered his reserved judgment to-day in the cross actions for damages respecting a collision…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 6

Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, into the circumstances of the death of Irene Verney, five years and…

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Buninyong-criffel Collision. Judgment Reserved. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 4

In the Vice-admiralty Court to-day, before Sir William Owen, Deputy Judge Commissary, the action was continued in which Messrs. Greenshields and others, owners…

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Greta. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 3

A youth named Robert Galloway, son of Mr. James Galloway, of Greta, who has the mail contract from Allandale to Rothbury, met with an accident on Thursday…

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Motor Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Mr. St. John Harmsworth, brother of Lord Northcliff, the chief proprietor of several London newspapers, has been…

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