Railway Fatalities. Collision in America. London
Reuter's correspondent at Helena, Montana, in the United States, reports that during a dense snowstorm a passenger express train and a goods train…
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Accidents, 1908
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Accident to P. H. Burge. London
P. H. Burge, the forward player of the South Sydney Club who sustained injuries in the match against Devon on Saturday, fractured two bones in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Balloon Accident. a Marvellous Escape. London
A startling accident occurred to a balloon at Dasseldorf, in Germany, the property of Captain Abecross. It had ascended to a height of 6000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning Fatality. Off Stockton Beach
A drowning accident occurred yesterday on the Stockton bench, nearly abreast of what is known as the Stockton Coal Company's No. 2 shaft, a little to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Stanford-merthyr
A fatal accident occurred at Standford-Merthyr Colliery sidings on Saturday morning to John Conn, a guard on coal trains employed by the East Greta Railway Company…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Haidarabad Fatality. Appalling Death-roll. London
A special correspondent of one of the London newspapers describes Haidarabad sea black grave. The bodies of 600 natives drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Famous Chance Inventions. Fortunes Made by Accidents
There is no romance more interesting, more fertile in surprises and strange developments, than the romance of invention and discovery (says the "Weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Blasting Accident
A serious blasting accident occurred on the North Coast railway works on the Durham side of the river, yesterday. A man named James Butchard, 60 years old,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Marine Court. Collision in Sydney Harbour. Sydney
An inquiry was held by the Marine Court (His Honor Judge Backhouse, and Captains Bracegirdle and Simpson, assessors) in No. 1 Sydney District Court…
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Mr. Charles Frederick William Stedtfield, third engineer of the German steamer Tiberius, which is berthed at Stockton, met his death while attempting…
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An inquest was held at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday by Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, into the circumstances of the death of Frederick Stedtfeldt, third…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Injured Footballers
LONDON, Monday.—P. H. Burge, of "The Wallables," who had his leg broken in the match against Devon, and P. Flanagan, who had his leg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death
The inquest upon the miner John Nichcloas Stephenson. who was fatally Injured It Burwood Colliery on Tuesday, was resumed at the Newcastle Courthouse,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sad Fatality. Girl Burned to Death
Shortly after one o'clock yesterday a fatal burning accident occurred at the Wickham Superior Public School, the viction being one of the pupils, a little girl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burwood Pit Accident
Delay which occurred in procuring medical attendance and conveying to his home Mr. John Stephenson, who was fatally injured in Burwood Colliery on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Minmi. Accident in Back Creek Pit
William Parkes, a miner employed at the Back Creek Colliery, met with a serious accident on Friday. afternoon. A quantity of the root came away without…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Minmi Fatality
An inquest wan held yesterday at the courthouse, Minmi, by Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, into the circumstances of the death of Charles Hammonds, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wickham Burning Fatality Evidence at the Inquest
The inquest concerning the death of the little girl Essic Idabell Blatchford. which occurred in the Newcastle Hospital on October 15, from burns sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wickham Burning Fatality Inquest Continued
The inquest concerning the death of the little girl Essie Idabell Blatchford, which occurred in the Newcastle Hospital on October 15, from burns sustained at Wickham, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Lambton. Drowned in a Waterhole
Harold Hopton, 4 years of age, son of Mr. Benjamin Hopton, was drowned in a waterhole yesterday morning. He was sent on a message by his mother, and was seen by a…
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