Collision in Sydney Harbour. Sydney
A collision occurred in Sydney Harbour this afternoon, near Darling Island, when the tugboat Port Jackson sustained damage. The French barque Notre Dame…
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Accidents, 1907
236 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 12
District News New Lambton. Drowning Fatality
About one o'clock on Saturday a three-year-old child of Mr. Lewis Davies was accidentally drowned in an underground tank situated on an enclosed vacant…
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The District Coroner, Mr. C. Hibble, held an inquiry yesterday morning at the New Lambton police station touching the death of the child named William Davis,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boating Disaster. Twenty-two People Drowned. London
A boat capsized in the Sacramento River, California, drowning twenty-two Greek labourers…
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Sir,—Reading your leader on the Accident Relief Board's annual report, I noted that in your suggestions as to what might be the causes operating to so rapidly…
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The comment which recently appeared in the columns of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" in reference to the increase in the number of temporary disablements in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Fatality. in the Dudley Colliery
A miner named Henry Thomas Parker, aged 43, was killed at the Dudley Pit yesterday morning by a fall of coal, caused by a "greyback." The decased…
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Mr. S. W. Moore, the Minister for Mines, has expressed the opinion that the report of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund Board for the year 1906…
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Sir,—While the continued increase in the number of cases of temporary disablement by accident is to be regretted, it does not follow, nor do I believe, that this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Serious Railway Accident. Twelve Persons Killed. London
Owing to the washing away of a culvert, a train was wrecked at Alkmaar, in the Transvaal, on the Delagoa Bay, railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Parliament. Sensational Accident. London
The hall in which the Duma meets in St. Petersburg was the scene of a sensational accident. The beams suporting a new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Fatality
LONDON, Monday.—While 22 miners were descending the Saint Johann Colliery, Rhenish Prussian the chain broke, and the cage was precipitated…
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LONDON, Monday.—While manoeuvring with lights out off Ajaccio, the destroyer Spec collided, with a torpedoer, one of whose steampipes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to the Mildura. Total Loss Apprehended. Brisbane
The A.U.S.N. Co. have received a telegram from the chief officer of the steamer Mildura, who is at Onslow, in the north of West Australia, to the effect that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning Fatality. Ballarat
Percy Mawson, 17, only son of Sergeantmajor Mawson, of the local militia, was drowned at the Eastern Baths yesterday, through being caught with cramp while…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Accident. Sixty Persons Killed. London
The New Orleans-San Francisco express has been derailed at Colton, Nebraska, with disastrous results. Sixty of the passengers were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disaster on the Tamar. Ten Persons Drowned. Launceston
A disaster occurred on the River Tamar last night, involving the lose of ten lives. Yesterday being a holiday, was enjoyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carriage Accident. the Prince of Wales Helps. London
A carriage overturned on the Old Windsor-road, pinning the horses underneath. The Prince and Princess of Wales,…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—An electric tramcan, travelling from Wallington to Croydon, near London, overturned while turning a corner at an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boating Disaster. Four Persons Drowned. Auckland
A small boat capsized off Motutapu on Monday morning. The occupants were J. Pilkington and his two sons (Fred and Harry), also Lionel Skinner and W…
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