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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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The Granville Railway Accident Result of the Inquiry Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the accident which occurred at Granville on Friday last, when a train left the rails, with the…

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Railway Accidents

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

As the 4.30 p.m. train, Sydney to Parramatta, was leaving Granville on Friday the last carriage jumped the points, and left the line. It bumped along the…

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Granville Railway Accident. Error of the Signalman. Sydney

Leader · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

The Board of Enquiry has found the derailments at Granville on Friday was to the points moved with the last car was crossing…

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The Bondi Fatality. Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 2

The inquest concerning the death of Gunner John Maxwell, who was found on the rocks at Bondi, was held to-day…

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The Railway Cutting Fatality. Navvies Still Buried. London

Leader · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 2

Eighteen of the navvles over whelmed by the collapse in the railway was cutting near Bingen (Germany) are still burled. Their case is…

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An Accident and a Moral

Leader · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 4

Last Sunday afternoon, as Mr. G. Streatfield (president of the Lyndhurst Shire Council) was driving to a service at Spring Hill, the horse…

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Accident at the "Tip"

National Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 2

While Mr Foster, employed by Messrs Mockler Bros, was backing a van load of rubbish towards the brink of the Vale Creek at the Bathurst rubbish 'tip'…

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Severe Scalding Accident

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 13

Mr. Percy Deane was the victim of a severe scalding accident on Tuesday last. While attending a pic-nic, and in the act of removing a tightly-fitting…

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Serious Accident

Leader · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 4

We regret to report that a boy named Frank Norris, the son of Mr. Thos. Norris, fell from a tree near the R.C. Church on Wednesday…

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Accidents

Molong Argus · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 3

ON Monday last a laborer named John Evans was brough in by the Cumnock coach, the unfortunate man having broken one of his legs through…

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Wednesday’s Accident

Leader · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

The boy, Frank Norris, who was seriously injured on Wednesday, was removed to the Orange hospital in an unconscious state by the mail train…

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Railway Collision. Sydney

Leader · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 2

A collision occurred between a coal laden train and some empty truck[?] at Darling Harbour to day. Several coal trucks were knocked off the…

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Bird Nesting Fatality ORANGE

National Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 2

John Norris, the eight-year-old son of Mr Thos Norris, of Millthorpe, who fell from a tree in the R C grounds, Millthorpe, on Wednesday…

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Serious Sulky Accident ORANGE

National Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 2

0A sather serious sulky accident happened to-night to Mrs Sidney Baker, wife of Mr S Raker, the well known leviathan, and Miss Alice…

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Fatal Termination of an Accident

Leader · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 6

News arrived on Friday morning of the death at midnight on Thursday, of the boy John Norris, who was seriously injured on Wednesday at…

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Three Children Drowned Two Gallant Little Sisters Attempt to Save Their Brother Perth (Wa)

National Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

At about 6 o'clock on Friday evening five children of Mr Wilson, assistant lighthouse keeper at Point Moore, Getaldton, went to the beach to bathe…

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Accidents and Fatalities Series of Serious Mishaps Sydney

Leader · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 1

A young man named H. Hunt, aged 20, a laborer employed at the Proprietary Coy’s mill at Broken Hill, became entangled in the belting…

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Saved From Drowning

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

Mr William Werner and Mr D Richards (an engine-driver from Orange) went to the river at Wellington od Monday afternoon to have a swim, when they noticed a 12 year…

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Boy Drowned Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

Clifford Wesley Tray (5), who was staying with his grandfather, Mr James Chisholm, at George's River Road, Enfield, was to-day drowned in a creek…

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Drowned in a Well. Sydney

Leader · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 2

Joseph Shelling, 31, was found dead in a well at Adamst[?] near Newcastle this morning. Deceased was sufering from influenza, and told his…

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