Yesterday, as on the previous days, the Dudley Pit was surrounded with the grief-stricken relatives of the entombed men, and there were, as before, many visitors from all ...
Article : 143 wordsFROM the yard of Messrs. W. Alien and Hunter, of Balmain, there was launched this morning a combined excursion steamer and harbour and ocean tug. The ceremony of ...
Article : 634 wordsTHE weather was delightful fine when the international cricket match was resumed to-day. Druce (27) and [?]irst (29) resumed the batting. Hirst lifted Jones's third ball ...
Article : 516 wordsAgain the police arrangements were in the able hands of Mr. Inspector Lynch, the officers under him being Senior-constable Fay, and Constables Sploer, Stapleton, Shaw, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Adamstown Council met last night. The Mayor, Alderman Loyden, presided, and there were also present: Aldermen, Robinson, Kenney, Jennings, Brown, Magill, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe long absence of the party which went in at 6 p.m. on Tuesday evening and did not return till 1.30 a.m. yesterday, and the condition of affairs generally, suggested ...
Article : 178 wordsIn view of the national aspect of the disaster the Mayor of Newcastle has been requisitioned by a petition, numerously signed by prominent citizen, asking him to ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Mines, returned to Sydney from Newcastle to-day, and was busily engaged at his office all the afternoon. When seen by our ...
Article : 377 wordsThe case of Mrs. Cook is indeed a sad one, and calls for the keenest sympathy. Left a widow at a moment's notice, with a family of nine children to support, the outlook is ...
Article : 178 wordsWe acknowledge receipt from Mr. Snowball, photographer, of a number of very good photographs of Dudley Colliery and the scenes round the pit mouth. ...
Article : 174 wordsIn anticipation that some days may yet elapse before all the bodies are recovered, arrangements are being initiated in the hope of securing a tent from the Military ...
Article : 203 wordsThe party (Comprising Messrs. Humble and Bates, Government Colliery Inspectors, and Messrs. A. Ross, R. Thomas, J. Barr, and W. B Pendleton, colliery managers, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe funeral of Thomas Dorritty, one of the victims of the Dudley disaster, where body was first found, took place yesterday afternoon, and was attended by a large concourse ...
Article : 163 wordsThe midnight shift reported that operations were proceeding smoothly in the pit. There was a possibility that more bodies would be brought out early this morning. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe body of Thomas Dorrity, late of New Lambton, which was the first recovered, was interred yesterday in the Primitive Methodist portion of the Sandgate ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 wordsFollowing is an extract from a report to the Secretary of State by Dr. Heldane on causes of death in colliery explosions:— "The recognition of carbon monoxide in the ...
Article : 540 wordsConsiderable anxiety prevailed on the pit top, for it was known to all at the time that a worker had boon brought up in an unconscious condition an hour ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 337 wordsThe remains of the late William Humphreys, one of the victims in the dreadful disaster, have been brought to his late residence in Pittows, Wallsend, for interment in ...
Article : 103 wordsWhen the Minister for Mines re-visited the pit early yesterday morning in company with Mr. H. Dairymple Wood and Dr. W. L. Eames, the condition of affairs below was ...
Article : 167 wordsSo great was the odour arising from the dead and the noxious gases at about midnight on the Tuesday that one of the working party, Jeremiah Jennings, an ex-Mayor ...
Article : 195 wordsSir John Madden, the Chief Justice, was sworn in as Acting-Governor this afternoon. THE CRICKET MATCH. The University team concluded their ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Mayor of Wallsend (Alderman H. Rushton) on being approached as to the advisability of calling a meeting for the purpose of showing sympathy with the bereaved, ...
Article : 256 wordsA WELL ATTENDED meeting was held at the Newcastle West Fern station last evening, for the purpose of forming a band in connection with the Fire Brigades' Association. ...
Article : 241 wordsSoon after Messrs. Inspector Dixon, J. Croft, A. Neilson, and F. Croudace went down at 6 pm. for the purpose of erecting overcasts to direct the air current to the ...
Article : 212 wordsThe surmise by the midnight party that several bodies were buried beneath the falls to Nigger's heading proved to be correct, for the party which went in ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Railway Department has completed arrangements, consequent upon the desire of the New South Wales Railway authorities, for an additional 20 minutes to the running ...
Article : 167 wordsA PUBLIC meeting in connection with the newly-formed Y.M.C.A. ambulance class was held at the hall, Hunter-street West, last evening. Apologies ware received for ...
Article : 268 wordsThere is nothing spoken about here but the terrible occurrence at Dudley Colliery. Throughout yesterday a continual procession of vehicles, bikes, horses, and persons on ...
Article : 132 wordsA public meeting for the purpose of inaugurating a fund for the families of the victims of the Dudley disaster was held last night in the Mechanics' Institute, Stockton. ...
Article : 453 wordsAT the weekly meeting of the Marine Board yesterday, further evidence was taken in the matter of the wind and weather, and sea experience on the coast on the night of January ...
Article : 223 wordsAmong others present at the pit during the day were, in addition to the Minister:— Messrs. A. A. Atkinson, John Dixon, T. L. Bates and W. Humble, Government colliery ...
Article : 200 wordsThe next party to go below (at 2 p.m.) comprised: Chief-inspector A.A. Atkinson, Messrs. Jonathan Dixon, D. M'Auliffe, Paul Turnbull, T. Croudace, and W. Humble ...
Article : 149 wordsMuch sympathy is expressed here at the sad calamity at the Dudley Colliery. The newsagent has been over whelmed by inquiries for the Newcastle Herald. Each of the last ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Hutchinson, a Labour M.P., reports having inquired into the complaints of the journeymen painters against Owen Smyth, to Superintendent of Public Buildings, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe news of the awful calamity at Dudley cast quite a gloom over this township. Ever since Monday afternoon the subject has been the general topic of conversation, and many ...
Article : 104 wordsHaving attended to the ventilation, the party set about extricating the body which had been discovered beneath the debris. This proved to be a work of hours, for men were ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Thu 24 Mar 1898, Page 5
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