Collision at Sea. Steamers Reported Sunk. Lifeboats to the Rescue. Quebec
The Canadian-Pacific steamer Empress of Ireland is believed to have collided with the Red Star steamer [?]anover yesterday morning cast of…
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Accidents, 1914
277 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 14
Fate of the Women. Drowned in Their Cabins. Montreal
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, President of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company, declares that the disaster is the worst in the history of the St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Great Wreck Enormous Loss of Life. Over One Thousand Drowned. Only Twelve Women Rescued. No Australian Passengers Lost. London
The following are the official figures as to the number of the passengers and crew on board the ill-fated steamer Empress of Ireland and details as to those rescued. There were 87 passengers in the first-class, 152 in the second, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collision. Three Men Injured. Campbelltown
A railway collision, resulting in slight injuries to a driver, guard, and passenger, occurred hero at an early hour this morning…
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Charles Boag, in employee on, the surface at Aberdare Colliery, was burned to death in his hut at Aberdare on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saved From Collision. the Royal Edward. Empress of Ireland's Warning London
The Canadian Northern Steamship Company's liner Royal Edward of 11,069 tons, has arrived from Quebec a Avonmouth, Bristol, where he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sea Scouts Drowned. Only One Boy Saved. London
A cutter belonging to the Sea Scouts was capsized when its sail was being hoisted off Somerlyton, on the coast of Suffolk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Accidents. Two Inquests. Sydney
The motor-car fatalities late on Saturday night May 16th had a sequel at the City Coroner's Court this morning, when Mr. Fincham, held inquests concerning…
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News was received in West Maitland yesterday of the death of Mr. Roy Burnker, third son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brunker, of Waratah, and formerly of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Sydney Letter. the Lithgow Proposition.—sea Coast Fares and Freights.—"spare Those Trees."—the Burglar Still Aburgling.—a Terrible Accident to "Wizard" Stone.—gold Passes to Several Important Gentlemen. Sydney
A prophecy—the Lithgow iron works proposition won't come off. The latest is that Ministers are divided. A Ministry when divided is like a whist player in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hydroplane Disaster. Two Officers Drowned. London
Lieutenants Rice and Thomas S. Cresswell were aeroplaning over Calshot Castle, in Hampshire, when their engine became disabled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District. Shooting Fatality
John Hall, the fifteen-year-old son of Mr. James Hall, of Heddon-Greta, was fatally injured in a shooting accident at Sawyer's Gully on Saturday afternoon…
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The first casualty of the tour occurred in the second half when Billy Hall, the Oldham half, was injured. Some serambting play was in progress among the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Harbour Collision. Naval Cutter Run Down. a Bluejacket Drowned. Sydney
A naval cutter from the submarine A.E. 1. having aboard John Groves, a leading stoker, John Reardon, and Joseph M'Gregor, was cut down in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Brunswick Storm. Many Fishermen Drowned Quebec
Forty fishing schooners have been wrecked, and twenty fishermen have perished, in a storm on the Northern Coast of New Brunswick…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Balloon Explosion. Many Persons Injured. Paris
A hundred and six persons were injured through the recent balloon accident in Rheims. The balloon exploded while it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Wallarah. Run Over by Coal Waggons
George Grima, a top-hand at the Wallarah Colliery, Catherine Hill Bay, died in the Newcastle Hospital on Saturday morning from injuries sustained on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Steamers. Collision in Fog. New York
The steamer New York has sent a wireless message stating that the American liner Pretoria had collided with the New York in a dense fog…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning an Impossibility
A newly-invented, novel lifebelt is a metal strap, with four air-filled metallic floats, about the size of an ordinary cocoanut. It is claimed that the wearer of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Fog Again. Collision at Sea. London
The Nordeutscher Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm. II., 19,361 tons, and [?]he steamier, Incemore collided in a [?]og off Spithead…
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