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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Fatality in Berlin. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1912 · page 5

Koenig, the famous German aviator, has been killed owing to his machine capsizing…

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Railway Fatality. Travellers Run Into. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1912 · page 5

Members of a Breslau card club and their wives and families, numbering 150, were returning home at mid-night, and on passing a level crossing…

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Victorian Accident Fund. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 July 1912 · page 5

The report of the Coalminers' Accident Relief Fund shows that the total amount invested is £2750. There were 315 accidents, none of which were fatal…

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Railway Collision. Great Loss of Life. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 5

A railway collision has occurred near Corning, by which 34 passengers were killed and 50 injured. An express train collided with the…

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Struck by Lightning. Many Soldiers Injured. St. Petersburg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 5

While a rifle regiment was engaged in musketry practice, forty of the soldiers were struck by lightning. Two were killed, and the others had…

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Fourth of July. the Fatality Roll. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 July 1912 · page 5

There was the usual crop of fatalities at the Fourth of July celebrations this year. There are hundreds of people in the…

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Railway Collision. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 5

A railway collision took place at a quarter-past two o'clock this afternoon on the North Shore line. The 1.55 train from Horasby to…

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Fatality in Nevada. Ely (Nevada)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 5

Nine men in the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company's mine have been killed by an explosion of dynamite…

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The Railway Fatality. Death of Driver Holmes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 5

An inquest into the death of Percival Henry Holmes, the engine-driver who was run over at the railway marshalling yards, Port Waratah, early on Tuesday…

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Railway Accident. Mail Trains Collide. Lithgow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 July 1912 · page 5

A railway accident occurred at Wallerawang a few minutes past one o'clock this morning. The mall train from Sydney had…

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Shooting Fatality. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 5

A sensational shooting case occurred at Port Adelaide on Friday, in which Gustav Neilsson and Benedict Gardner, who were boarding with C. A. Severn, a…

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Railway Collision. Thirteen Persons Killed. New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1912 · page 5

A railway collision has occurred at Chicago Thirteen persons were killed, and many, were injured…

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Chicago Collision. Thirteen Persons Killed. Chicago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1912 · page 5

Further details of the railway collision which took place at Chicago show that thirteen persons were killed, and many wounded…

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The Abermain Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1912 · page 6

Mr. G. Brown, district coroner, held an inquest yesterday at Abermain concerning the death of William J. Keating, stationmaster, who killed at…

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Killed in the Pit. Fatality at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1912 · page 5

A young man, Stanley Oldham, a resident of Lambton, employed at the Wallsent Colltery, was killed last night while at his work as a wheeler…

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Motor Car Accident. Two Men Fatally Injured. Toronto

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 5

Mr. Robert Smith, a prominent Canadian broker, and as partner of Sir Edmund Osler, has been killed in an automobile accident…

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Aerial Travelling. Another Fatality. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 5

Lieutenant Preusser, a military aviator, has been killed at Lindeathael, in Prussia. He was descending after a flight, when…

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Wallsend Pit Fatality. Inquest Concluded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 3

Mr. C. Hibble, District Coroner, resumed the inquest at the Lambton Courthouse, yesterday into the death of Stanley Oldham, who was killed at the…

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Submarine Disaster. Collision with a Battleship

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 11

During mano[?]uvres in a dense fog in the dangerous waters of the Channel between. Alderney and Cape la Hogue the submarine Vendemiaric was run down and…

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Cheering the King. Accident to Workgirls. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 5

The King, accompanied by the Queen, opened the new dock at Immingham, on the coast of Lincolnshire, yesterday. As the train was passing through…

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