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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

236 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 12

Accident in a Colliery. a Shiftman Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 5

The Wallsend Mining Company's C pit was yesterday morning the scene of a shocking accident, by which Martin Horgan, a shiftman, 29 years of age, lost…

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Wallsend C Pit Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 6

At the Wallsend Courthouse, yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, concluded an inquiry into the death of Martin Horgn, who had been killed at the Wallsend Company's [?]…

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Collision on the Clyde. Maori Sinks a Steamer. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 5

While engaged in trials on the Clyde, the new steamer Maori, built for the New Zealand trade, collided with the steamer Kintyre…

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Accident or Murder?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—During the army manoeuvres at Karlowitz, Hungary, two corporals were killed with ball cartridges…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. ACCIDENTS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 6

Considerable excitement was ,caused at Morpeth and East Maitland yesterday afternoon by a runaway horse attacked to an sulky. The horse is a fine chestnut stallion that Mr. J. D…

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Fatal Shunting Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 5

Joseph Richardson, an employee of the Railway Commissioners, was fatally injured at about 9.30 last night, while engaged in shunting operations at…

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Mining Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 September 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—A cage containing 17 miners was being hauled up a shaft at a mine attached to Jones and M'Laughlin's steelworks, at…

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Carrington Shunting Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 September 1907 · page 5

An inquest who held at the Newcastle courthouse on Saturday afternoon by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. G. T. Edwards, touching upon the death of Joseph Richardson, who…

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Railway Collision. Great Loss of Life. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 September 1907 · page 5

Great loss of life was caused by a railway collision in Mexico yesterday. Two trains, one laden with passengers and the other with goods, collided…

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Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 September 1907 · page 5

At about three o'clock on Saturday morning George Player, employed as a horsedriver by the Carrington Co-operative Coal Shipping Company, was knocked…

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Accident Relief Fund. Conference of Delegates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 September 1907 · page 5

The conference of delegates upon matters in connection with the operation of the miners' accident relief fund was resumed at the Newcastle Hotel on…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1907 · page 5

Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning a boy named Alfred Wallace Arnold, aged 16, who lived in Railway-parade, Kogarah, caught a train at the Kogarah…

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Motor Race Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—During a motor race at New York one of the competitors, while travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour lost control of his…

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Fatality on a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1907 · page 5

Early yesterday morning a seaman named Karl E. Sellquist, employed on the steamer Oceano, then lying at the Dyke, fell down the hold of the vessel, and was…

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Tramway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—An electric tramcar in Birmingham was overturned through the failure of the brakes to act while on an incline…

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Carrington Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 6

The inquest into the circumstances of the death of George Player, who was fatally injured through being run over by an empty coal-waggon at Carrington early…

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Fatality in Melbourne. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 October 1907 · page 5

Miss Mary M'Mahon and Miss Katie Kiernan were driving in a buggy along Keller-road yesterday, when the horse took fright at a passing motor, and…

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Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1907 · page 6

A travelling hawker, Thomas Corsan Bridges, 53, was killed on the Aberglasslyn-road, Rutherford, yesterday afternoon. Deceased was walking along the road…

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Fatality on a Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 October 1907 · page 4

Precautions taken aboard steamers for the safety of ships and their crews are never more stringent than on vessels carrying inflammable cargoes. Accidents occur rarely,…

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Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Sad Fatality. Death of Mr. A. FITZPATRICK

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 6

Mr. Austin Fitzpatrick, proprietor of Bloomfield Colliery, and a well-known and esteemed resident of Maitland district, was killed in William-street, East…

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