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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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Aeroplane Accident. Aviator Unhurt. San Francisco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1911 · page 5

When landing after an aeroplane flight yesterday, the aviator Latham crashed into a fence He was thrown out but escaped,…

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Accidental Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

At the Merewether Police Station yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest concerning the death or the lad Richard Robert Brookes, who…

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East Greta Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 6

An inquest into the circumstances of the death of Edward James Byrne, the boy who was killed by a fall from a butcher's cart at East Greta on…

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Sydney Harbour Collision. Action for Damages. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 4

In the Vice-admiralty Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Street, the Deputy Judge Commissary, an action was heard in which Mr. John Brown, of Newcastle,…

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Drowned in a Dam. Death of a Child

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

About five o'clock yesterday afternoon Joseph Lovett, three years of age, son of Mr. Thomas Lovett, of Pittown, was found drowned in a dam at the rear of…

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Wallsend Fatality. Accidental Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 3

Mr. C. H. Hibble, the district coroner, held an inquest at the Wallsend Courthouse yesterday concerning the death of the boy Joseph Lovett, who was…

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Scalding Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 6

Eric Theodore Stark, the eleven-months-old son of Mr. Theodore Stark, of Cessnock, died as he was being admitted to the Maitland Hospital yesterday,…

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Hawes Railway Accident. the Jury's Finding. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 5

The inquest into the death of the victims of the railway disaster near Hawes has concluded. The jury returned a verdict of…

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Railway Collision. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1911 · page 5

Six passengers were killed and18 injured in a collision on the New York-Central line at Batavia…

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Sydney Harbour Collision. Claim for Damages. Verdict for Plaintiff. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1911 · page 5

Mr. Justice Street, sitting as Deputy Judge Commissary in Vice-Admiralty jurisdiction, delivered his reserved decision in No. 1 Jury Court yesterday, in…

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Accident at Hetton. Sensational Incident. Five Men Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 5

The front shift, numbering about 70 men, were riding into work in Hetton Colliery, Carrington, yesterday morning, when some of the skips left the rails, and a number of…

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Railway Accident. Three Men Killed. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 5

A passenger train collided with a ballast train at Vire, a town in the Calvados department of France. Two drivers and a stoker were…

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Railway Fatality. Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 11

An Inquest was held by Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of Frederick Henry Herbert, of Fern…

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Fate of Aeronauts. Drowned in a Lake. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 5

A balloon has been found in a lake near Wildenbruch. Pomerania. The bodies of two men were with in the car…

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Fatality at Mount Morgan. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 5

A distressing fatality occurred at Mount Morgan Copper Smelting Works yesterday. A leakage occurred in the big flue of…

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Collision Regulations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 4

The Heard of Trade have forwarded a communication to the Imperial Merchant Service Guild asking the opinion of that body upon points raised in connection…

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A Train Derailed. Collision with a Cow. Four Persons Killed. Chicago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 5

An extraordinary railway accident occurred a Fort Smith, in Arkansas. A train bound from Chicago to Rack island dashed into a cow, with…

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Railway Accidents. Gallantry of Convicts. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 5

A Canadian Pacific train was derailed on the Open Sound branch. A number of passengers were seriously injured…

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Fatality at Hinton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 6

Alice Minslow, aged 14 years, was drowned in an underground tank at the rear of her mother's residence, Hinton, on Friday evening. She went from the…

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Railway Collision. at Central Station. a Pointsman's Promptitude. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 4

A smash occurred at the Central Railway Station early on Saturday morning, when two runaway eagines coupled together crashed into a set of ten standing empty…

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