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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Kingston Again Shaken Several Persons Injured. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 5

Another earthquake has occurred in lamaica. It travelled from the south-west and its effects were chiefly, confined…

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Collision at Sea. Steamers Medic and Turbo. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 June 1907 · page 5

The s.s. Medic, of the Oceanic Steamship Company's line, while off the South Foreland, on the coast of Kent, on her voyage to England, came…

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Industrial Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 4

Both in Great Britain and the United States there is at present an agitation for the reduction of the hours worked by railway servants, and in Belgium…

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Accident to a Railway Guard. Singleton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 5

On the arrival of the North-western mail train from Sydney shortly after midnight on Wednesday, James Ryan, the guard, was found lying unconscious in a…

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Fatality at Pelaw-main

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 6

Frederick Turner, an assistant on a machine coalcutter in Pelaw-Main Colliery, was engaged at his usual work, shovelling back coal from a machine…

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Railway Accident. on the East Greta Line. Cars Derail and Telescope. Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 5

A sensational railway accident occurred near Weston to-day at about one o'clock, when a number of passengers on the 12.35 p.m. train from Cessnock narrowly escaped…

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Fatality at Stanford-merthyr

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 6

William Montgomery, a miner, was killed by a fall of coal in the Stanford-Merthyr colliery yesterday. The deceased entered the mine at 7 a.m., for the…

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Aberdare Railway Accident. Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 5

Traffic was resumed on the Aberdare railway line on Wednesday night, but men are still engaged along the line clearing away debris…

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Accident at Gas Works. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 5

Several pupils of the University High School had a thrilling experience to-day while making an inspection of the Fitzroy Gasworks, to get a practical…

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Outbreak of Fire. Child Fatally Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 July 1907 · page 4

A fire, which was attended with fatal results, broke out shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morning at the residence of Mr. Charles C. Ramsay, of Zara-street,…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 July 1907 · page 5

An inquest was held at the Newcastle Courthouse on Saturday morning, by Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, into the circumstances of the death of the infant…

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Wallsend Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1907 · page 4

An inquest was hold by Mr. C. Hibbie, district coroner, at the Wallsend Courthouse yesterday, touching the death of James Baker, who met with an accident…

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Railway Collision. Colliery Train Derailed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1907 · page 5

Two coal trains, drawn by Government engines, collided in the railway yard at East Greta Junction yesterday morning, at about 4 o'clock…

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Collision Off Brisbane. Tinana and Platypus. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 5

A serious collision occurred shortly after 6 o'clock last night about one mile inside of Cape Moreton, between the A.U.S.N. Company's cargo steamer Tinana,…

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A Fatal Mining Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 13

Another fatal mining accident is recorded. Last week two young miner named Skinner and Donohue, were working in the sink in the Great Australian mine at…

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Fatal Burning Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 4

Mr. William James Merriman, residing at St. Elmo, Lower Fort-street, met with a fatal burning accident to-day. Doing paralysed, he was sitting in bed…

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A Boating Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 13

A very sad boating fatality occurred last week on the coast, near Dunedin. In February last the French barque Marguerite Mirabaud was wrecked on the east…

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The Nightcaps Mine Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 13

An inquest on the death of those miners who recently lost their lives in the Nightcaps mine has been held, and resulted in a verdict to the effect that they met their…

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Collision at Sea. Hundred Persons Drowned London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 5

A collision resulting if the wreck of a large passenger steamer and many deaths, has occurred off Eureka, on Humboldt Bay, in Canada…

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Found Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 7

While plying his avocation in the harbour yesterday morning, William Trelevan, licensed waterman, found the body of a man floating in the water. The water…

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