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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Terrible Boating Fatality. Four Young Men Drowned. Three Brothers Victims. Auckland (New Zealand), Mondny

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 13

A party of live young men were sailing on the New River Estuary at Invercargill, yesterday, when they were thrown into the water by the capsizing of their boat, which was…

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Latest News by Wire, Sydney. Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 5

An elderly man named William Henry Bell employed as a wharf labourer. was assisting in the erection of a staging at woolloomooloo this morning, when the structure gave…

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Battleships in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 3

The battleships Prince George, Captain Arthur C. Clarke, C.M.G., and Hannibal, Captain George A. Giffard, C.M.G., both of the Channel Fleet, while engaged in…

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A Harbour Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 October 1903 · page 5

The Marine Court has called upon Captain McKenzie to show cause in connection with the recent collision between his vessel and the barbour steamer Lady Hampden…

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The Collision of Battleships

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 October 1903 · page 5

Very few further particulars have been received of the collision between the battleships Prince George and Hannibal, of the Channel fleet, off Cape Finisterre…

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Another Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 October 1903 · page 3

The Marine Court gave its decision to-day in the Benelon-Beagle collision. It called upon James Dickson, master of the Beagle, to show cause why his certificate should not…

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The Murrurundi Drowning Case

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 4

THE body of a young woman named Margaret Phillips was found in the Page River on Saturday afternoon (says the Quirindi Gazette.) She had…

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Sad Case of Drowning

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 2

A sad rase of drowning was brought to light about mid-day on Saturday last when some boys discovered the body of a young girl named Margaret Phillips lying in the…

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Remarkable Fatality. Determined to Be Drowned. a Man Risks His Life for a Dog. Forbes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 5

A strange drowning fatality occurred near Waroo Station yesterday afternoon, A man named Harry Williams was engaged repairing the weir when he slipped oil a plank…

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Collision of Battleships. London, October 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 2

The battleships Prince George, Captain Arthur C. Clarke, C.M.G., and Hannibal. Captain George A. Giffard, C.M.G., both of the Channel Fleet, while engaged in…

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The Very Latest Cables London, Friday afternoon. a Fatal Train Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 5

The Leeds express train collided with a light engine and drove it into Goverby tunnel. Several carriages were thrown off the rails. The Manchester train came into…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 2

An accident by which a men who pave his name as John Cormack received such terrible injuries that he succumbed in the local hospital the Fame night, occurred at the local…

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Accident to Mr Bent. Rendered Unconscious

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 4

MR BENT, the Victorian Minister for Public Works, met with a nesty accident on Thursday. He attended, with a large Parliamentary party, at the…

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Railway Accident. Three Persons Killed. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 2

A SERIOUS railway disaster has taken plaCe in Yorkshire. The Leeds express collided with a light engine and drove it into Sowerby tunnel. Several…

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Accident to a Cyclist

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 October 1903 · page 5

While David Lorrimer was riding on his motor bicycle at the Sydney Cricket Ground this morning for the forthcoming cycling carnival, the machine, while going at the rate of 50 miles an hour, dashed…

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Accident to a Cyclist

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 3

While David Lorrimer was riding on his motor bicycle at the Sydney Cricket Ground this morning for the forthcoming cycling carnival,…

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Accident to a Sleep-walker. [By Telegraph]. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 3

ELSIE HALL, aged 13, while in a state of somunambulism, walked through an open window at her parent's residence, Kent-streat. and fell some 14 feet on…

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Remarkable Fatality. FORBES

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 13

A strange drowning fatality occurred near Waroo Station yesterday afternoon. A man named Harry Williams was engaged repairing the weir when he slipped off a plank…

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The Injured Salvationist

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 3

Colonel Holland, the Salvation Army officer, who was injured seriously last week in a railway collision in Missouri, has succumbed to his injuries…

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A Man Drowned at Burrendong

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2

THE body of a young man named Outfield has been recovered from the river on Friday evening. It appears that the unfortunate man was trying…

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