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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Taxi-cab Accident. Many Soldiers Injured. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 5

A taxi-cab at Farnborough, near Aldershot, dashed into it company of infantry engaged in night operations. Many were severely cut, and two are…

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Steamer Founders. Twenty Persons Drowned. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 5

The steamer North Britain, bound from Sunderland to Sulina, has foundered. Twenty persons were drowned, and…

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Drowned in a Well. Evidence at Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 6

Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, held an inquest at the police station, Globe, yesterday into the death of Margaret Mary O'Donnell, whose body was…

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Fatal Riding Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 4

The death of Patrick Vincent Hickey who was thrown from his horse in Newcastle West, on Friday last, and who died the same day in the Newcastle Hospital,…

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Railway Accident. Fourteen Passengers Injured. Fort William (Ont.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1912 · page 5

Four carriages on the transcontinental express became derailed, and overturned, rolling over the embankment on the border of Lake Superior…

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Accident in Berlin. River Tunnel Caves In. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 5

A tunnel under the River Spree caved in, and the released waters of the river rushed into the underground tubes of the city, a section of the…

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Eveleigh Fatality. Coroner's Strictures. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 5

The City Coroner held an inquest today on the body of Richard Henry Stevens, 48 of age, railway employee, who died as the result of injuries received at…

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Collision at Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1912 · page 4

According to advices from Melbourne, the ship Inveravon, on her voyage of Wallaroo, had a sensational experience. A member of the crew, writing to…

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Boxing Accident. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1912 · page 6

In a boxing match to-nght, Goodwin (England) left-hooked Jones (Sydney) on the jaw and broke it…

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Fatality at Weston

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

Mr. John M'Fadden, a well-known resident of Weston, was killed in the tunnel of the coal conveyor of the Hebburn coal-box yesterday…

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Steamers in Collision. No Serious Damage. Malta

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

During a dense fog the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria bound from London to Japan came into collision with the French steamer…

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Railway Accident. Engine Explodes. Rosenburg (Oregon)

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

A railway engine drawing a freight train exploded, and wracked the care and damaged the track, The engineer end fireman were…

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Collision Off Brisbane. Wodonga and Emerald. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 April 1912 · page 4

A collision took place between the steamers Wodonga and Emerald, near the Pile Light, on Saturday afternoon. The Emerald, with a number of…

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Railway Accident. Escape of Passengers London

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

An entire mail train, whilst travelling at 50 miles an hour, was derailed at Stockton-on-Toes, and ploughed the permanent way for a quarter of a mile…

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Two Jockeys Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1912 · page 5

In the First Nursery Handicap at Randwick this afternoon four horses, Martha B. Uncle Matt, Early Hepe, and Mayrah came down, and Matthews, the…

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Fatality at Hamilton. Bricklayer Killed

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

A young man, Ernest John Jones, employed as a bricklayer at the Newcastle Gas and Coke Company's new works at Newtown, Hamilton, was fatally injured…

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Capsize of a Launch. Five Persons Drowned. Tangier

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

By the capsizing of a launch two children of a French Legation official, an English governess, and two nurses were drowned…

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Drowning Case at Lambton

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

A boy, George Edward Usher, the son of Mr. John Usher, was drowned at Lambton yesterday about 13 o'clock. The lad went for a swim into an old…

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Hamilton Fatality. Inquest Opened

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

Mr. G. T. Edwards, the deputy coroner, opened an inquest at the police station, Hamilton, yesterday, into the death of Ernest John Jones, a young man, which…

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The Nile Disaster. Steamers in Collision. Cairo

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

The catastrophe which occurred on the Nile occurred through a collision between two steamers. One was an excursion steamer with…

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