Miners Drowned. Bursting of a Reservoir. Uniontown (Penn.)
UNIONTOWN (Penn.), Thursday. Fourteen miners have been drowned through an inrush of water into a shaft of the Frick coalmine…
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Accidents, 1912
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Floods in America. Men Drowned Like Rats. the Coalmine Disaster. Uniontown (Penn.)
Further details regarding the inrush of water down the shaft of the Frick coalmine in consequence of the bursting of the Evans station…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Sea. a Collier Sunk. Quebec
The steamer Empress of Britain, on her way to Liverpool with a thousand passengers, collided in a fog with the British collier Helvetia off Cape Breton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pier Rail Breaks. Many Persons Drowned. Berlin
While a thousand holiday makers were waiting on the pier at Ruegen for the arrival of steamers the balus-trade broke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Sea. Empress of Britain Returns. Quebec
The Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of British; which collided with and sank the British collided Helvetia, ten miles west of Fame Point, on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collapse of a Pier. the Ruegen Accident. Ruegen
Details of the accident at Ruegen [?]ier show that a large number of people were watching the German battleship feet, when the landing stage at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collision. Many People Killed. Rio De Janeiro
A collision has occurred between two suburban trains on the Central Brazilian railway. A hundred people were killed or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tugboat Hand Drowned
At about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning the body of a mail was found flouting in the Newcastle Harbour, some 150 yards out from the pilot station,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aerial Fatality. Crushed to Death. an Australian Aviator. London
Linday Campbell, an Australian, was flying a monoplane at Brooklands yesterday when it dropped. The aviator was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer on Fire. Saved From Sinking, Several Passengers Injured. San Francisco
While the passenger steamer J. A. Kilborn, which burns oil as fuel, was replenishing her bunkers, one of the tanks slipped, and a fire broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Scouts Drowned. Mishap at Sheerness. London
The Dulwich Scouts' Mission was about to encamp at Sheerness when a gust of wind capsized a cutter containing 23 lads and five adults…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bathing Fatality. Four Lads Lose Their Lives. London
Eighty members of the Cadets' College Mission at Battersea were bathing after church yesterday, when a lad swam out 400 yards, and was seized…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aviation Accident. Mr. Campbell's Death. London
Mr. Dempster an aviator, was an eye-witness of the fatal accident which happened to Mr. Lindsay Campbell, the Australian aeronaut, at Brooklands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alpine Accident. a Fatal Result. Paris
Mdlle. Van Goethen, who recently met with an accident in the Alps, has died from congestion of the brain. She fell over a precipice in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Drowning Cases. a French Sailor
The body of a French sallor, Gulliauma Eouzan, was found in the harbour yesterday morning, Later in the day an inquest concerning the matter was held at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Irish Train Mishap. Many Persons Injured. London
A train was shunting at Lomoardstown in ireland, when it collided with fixed buffers. The engine was detrailed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collision. Two Lives Lost. Paris
A railway accident resulting in the loss of two lives, has occurred at La Bastide, in the Landes. All express collided with a local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dynamite Explosion. Dragoons Injured. Paris
Dragoons were blowing up improvised bridges over the railway lines near Rheims, when a dynamite cartridge prematurely exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Barrister's End. Found Drowned. Paris
Herr Michaelis, a brilliant Berlin barrister, and a married man, has committed suicide at Enghlen, by drowning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the G. W. Wolff. Off Flinders Island. the Master Drowned. Melbourne
The fishing smack Ada Bargoss arrived in the Bay to-day, with 23 shipwrecked sailors, who were the crew of the ship G. W. Wolff, bound from Buonos…
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