Lake Ice Breaks. Fifty Gipsies Drowned. London
While a gipsy caravan was crossing Lake Cheremenetzki, in Russia, from Duga cattle fair, the ice broke. Fifty of the party were drowned…
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Accidents, 1910
409 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 21
Railway Collision. Near Cologne. Twenty Soldiers Killed. London
A passenger train yesterday collided with a military train at Mulheim on the Rhine, three miles from Cologne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned by a Swan. a Six-year-old Boy. London
A vicious swan, which has lately attacked several men lit the Trent at Nottingham, assailed and drowned a boy, aged six…
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A navvy, Luke Ryan, was found drowned in Telarah Swamp, at the foot or the North Coast railway embankment, yesterday. Deceased had been employed is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electric Wire Accident. Newcastle Council Sued. Claim for Damages. Sydney
In No 1 Jury Court to-day. Mr. Justice Conen and a jury heard an action in which William Henry Holmes sued the Newcastle Municipal, Council to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Sea. Barque Kate Thomas Sunk. Only One Survivor. London
The four-masted barque Kate Thomas from Antwerp to Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, sank off Land's End after collision with another vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Electric Wire Accident. Newcastle Council Sued. Verdict for Plaintiff. Damages £1275. SYDNEY
In No. 1 Jury Court to-day, Mr. Justice Cohen and a jury, continued the hearing of on action in which William Henry Holmes sued the Newcastle Municipal Council to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Distressing Fatality. Perth (W.a.)
A burning fatality occurred last night at the residence of Thomas Walsh on the Federal-road, between Kalgorlie and Boulder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Mt. Vesuvius. a Runaway Car. Kills a Lady Passenger. London
A fatal accident has occurred on the funicular railway, which is really a cable tramway, running from the foot of Mount Vesuvius to near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rule of the Air Needed. Collision Narrowly Averted. Aeroplane and Monoplane. London
Captain Dickson, an army officer, while aeroplaning with a passenger at Chalons, in France, met a monoplane on mid-air, and averted a catastrophe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blasting Fatality. Signal Misunderstood. Fourteen Men Killed. London
A blasting accident has occurred in a railway cutting at Novite, in Texas, in the United States. A number of workmen were engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minmi Fatality
Mr. C. Hibble, the coroner, opened an inquest yesterday, at the Minmi Courthouse, into the death of Robert Newton, locomotive engine-driver, in the employ of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Fatality
James Outram 19 years, a flatter, employed in Abermain Colliery, was fatally injured in the colliery at about 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening. He was found by his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drowned in the Harbour
Andrew Brooke, 27 years of age, single, was fishing from the wharf, near the Newcastle Councill’s boat harbour, yesterday afternoon, when he fell into the harbour,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pilot-boat Capsizes. Off St. Malo. Ten Men Drowned. London
A French pilot boat capsized off Cape Frehel, thirteen miles from St. Malo. Ten of the men on board the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Minmi. Colliery Labourer's Death
William Joshua Rayfield, aged 25 years, employed as a labourer at Duckenfleld Colliery, Minmi, was fatally injured as a result of an accident that occurred while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kurri. Mining Fatality
A fatal accident occurred at Pelaw-Main Colliery on Saturday, shortly afternoon, when a man named John M'Lean, a native of Elgin, N.B., 42 years of…
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An inquest was held by Mr. C. Hibble district coroner, at the Newcastle Court house or Saturday, into the death of the young man, Andrew Brook, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Racing Fatality. Death of a Jockey. Adelaide
Soon after the start or the Trial Stakes at the Morphetville races on Saturday, in which a field of 25 horses started, a disaster occurred. Steelbone, Sonata…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton. Rescue From Drowning
Mr. T. Davidson, third engineer on the steamer Cape Finisterre, had a very narrow escape from drowning on Sunday morning, and probably owes his life to…
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