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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Fall from a Train. A Woman Seriously Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 7

Early on Tuesday morning a woman fell from a goods train whilst in mo tion between Currabubula and Werris Creek Stations. A special train brought…

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Terrible Explosion on a Steamer. Two Person's Killed and Two Seriously Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 5

A fearful explosion, attended with fatal results, occurred at Hexhara on Thursday afternoon on board Messrs. J. and A. Brown's steamer Duckenfield, two youths named F. Lundy and J. Freund being…

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Accident

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 2

Mr. A. Schuemaker senior, of Blandford, met with a very painful accident while returning home after Church on Sunday morning last. From what we can learn…

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Railway Accident LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 4

While shuting a locomotive verier day, it cullided with a train full of returning refugees at Johauneburg, with the result that several women…

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Railway Collision in Glasgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 September 1902 · page 3

A train steaming into Cbaring Cross station, Glasgow, came into collision with another train standing at the platform. Some of the cars were telescoped. Twenty-five persons were injured, A…

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A Serious Railway Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 2

A railway collision happened at Charring Cross station in Glasgow. The can telescoped, and twenty-five persons were injured. The signalman has been arrested in…

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Freedom From Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 2

A pleading feature in connection with the late Show was the freedom from anything like serious accident, among the thousands who visited the Showgrounds,…

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A Fatal Accident. [By Telegraph]. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 3

ALBERT DWYER, a youth of seventeen, a trace boy in tha employ of a carrier, was riding a horse in George-street, to-day, and when near Dawes Point,…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 3

An unknown man who was knocked down by a tram last night died in the Hospital this morning without having regained consciousness…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1902 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was recorded at all inquest on the body of an unknown man who was knocked down and fatally injured by a tram on Wednesday night…

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A Balloon Incident. Man Accidentally Carried Up. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 September 1902 · page 3

SPECATTORS playing yesterday with a captive war-balloon at Leatherhead (near Epsom, in Surrey), released it, with the result that a man who clung…

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Accident to the President of the United States

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 3

An alarming accident occurred yesterday to President Roosevelt, of the United States, and other gentlemen who were driving in a four-horse landan from Pittsfield to Lennox, in Massacbusetts. After…

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Fatal Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 2

Tidings came to hand on Tuesday afternoon of n fatal accident which took place at Cox's Creek, by which a well-known resident of that locality…

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A Thrilling Incident. President Roosevelt Narrowly Escapes Death. A Collision With an Electric Tram. Driver and Bodyguard Killed. President Painfully Injured. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 4

AN alarming accident happened to President Roosevelt when driving in North Western Massachusetts on Wednesday. The horses of the…

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Collision in the River Elbe. Appalling Loss of Life

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 12

A telegram sent from Hamburg to the san Francisco Chronicle on July 21 states :—The steamship Primus, of Hamburg, with 185 passengers on board, was cut in two and…

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Where Accidents Happen

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 3

According to the experience of the accident insurance companies, about the safest place for a man to be is in a train or aboard an ocean…

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Broken Hill. Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 3

John Hoey, a miner in the Proprietary mine, was killed last night by a falling rock, which struck him on the head. Deceased and two of his mates were working at a chutes in the stope at the 650feet lovel…

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Accident to a Warship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 3

During the manœuvres of the American North Atlantia squndron, the cruiser Brooklyn struck an unchartered rock. The force of the collision bent six plates in the cruiser's bottom…

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Peculiar Street Accident. And Extraordinary Escape

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 5

AN extraordinary incident occurred in Sydney near the Hajmarket, on Thursday evening. A horse attached to a deliver van was being driven…

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Deer Stalking Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 September 1902 · page 3

While deer-stalking on the Adirondack Mountains, United States, Judge Storrs accidentally shot dead Mr. Charles Smylie, a millionaire liquor manufacturer…

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