Burned to Death. Distressing Accident. Berlin
A tragic death under distressing circumstances has occurred in Silesia. A poor woman was sentenced to be imprisoned for one day because she…
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Accidents, 1911
447 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 23
The Orontes Collision. Marine Board Inquiry. Hobart
A special meeting of the Marine Board was held yesterday afternoon, in consequence of the collision between R.M.S Orontes and the yacht Thelma, by which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storms in Vienna. Many People Injured. Vienna
Extraordinary wind storms have been experienced in the city. There have been 89 cases of limbs broken through people being blown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Handling Explosives. Accidents and Narrow Escapes
"It is practically impossible," writes Hudson Maxim in the New York "Adventure." to make the ordinary labouring man appreciate the necessity of care…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Accident. St. Petersburg
A fire broke out on a train near Perm yesterday and several carriages were destroyed. Seven passengers were killed, and 32 severely injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Collision. Sydney
James Buckley and Matthew [?]ney were driving in a milkcart in King-street, St. Peters, last night, when they collided with a Cook's River tram…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Accident Fund
The reports of actuarial experts who were appointed to investigate the Miners' Accident Relief Fund make it clear that on the present scale of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Railway Accident. Six Persons Injured. Melbourne
A serious railway accident occurred at the Flinders-street station to-night, when the Port Melbourne train ran into a light engine at ten minutes past nine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Derailed. Many Persons Injured. Valparaiso
A train, derailed on a bridge, was precipitated into a ravine near the Braden copper mines. Fifty were killed or injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident. Two Men Killed. Brisbane
A serious accident occurred on Saturday morning on the Blackbutt railway extension. A ballast train struck a staging on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Winch Fatality. Inquest Opened
Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, opened an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of George Hann, a wharf labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. a Sad Fatality
A sad fatality occurred in High-street yesterday afternoon at 12.15, when a youth named Percy William Lawrence James a 15-year-old son of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Winch Fatality. Inquest Again Adjourned
Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, continued the inquest, at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of George Hunn, a wharf labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Adrift on an Icefloe. Many Persons Drowned. St. Petersburg
After terrible sufferings for three days and nights, 120 persons were rescued from the drifting icefloe in the Gulf of Finland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Fatality at Pelaw-main
Another fatality, the third within six weeks, occurred in Pelaw-Main Colliery yesterday, when William Evans, of Rawson-street, Kurri Kurri, was killed by a fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Factory Accidents. Tendency to Decrease. London
The Departmental Committee reports that the risk of accidents in factories and workshops tends to decrease…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Winch Fatality. Inquest Again Adjourned
Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, continued the inquest, at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of George Hann, a wharf labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cape Disaster. Heroism of Injured Doctor
The railway accident at Gaikas Loop on the night of January 4 was the worst disaster that has taken place in South Africa since that of Glencoe in 1895 (says…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Strange Railway Accident
A very Bad and strange accident occurred on The Main Trunk Railway the other day, by which a young woman met her death in an extraordinary manner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Earl of Crewe. Injured by a Fall. London
The Earl of Crewe, the Lord Privy Seal, who had been dining with Viscount Morley, the Lord President of the Council, slipped and fell…
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