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Accidents, 1907

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Latest News. SYDNEY, Thursday. Fatal Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

A boy who was playing with a gun at Terang, Victoria, accidentally shot his younger brother, who succumbed…

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Dynamite Accident Child Severely Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 1

A serious accident is reported from Mogilla, near Bega. Some children of Mr Robert Jamicsom were plnying near a barn, when they picked up three…

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Earthquake in Jamaica. Destruction of Kingston. Outbreak of Fires. Great Loss of Life. Hundreds Injured. Terrible Condition of the District

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Jan. 16. A very severe earthquake occurred at Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, on Monday afternoon. The city, it is reported,…

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Accident to Lord Kitchener

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 5

Whilst taking part in some military manoeuvres at Poona, India, Lord Kitchener's horse put his kind leg in a hole, and horse and rider rolled fourteen feet down a steep…

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The Late Collision [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

The Railway Department estimates that the damage in the late railway collision at Stanwell Park amounted to £500…

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Serious Blasting Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 4

Whilst working in a gravel quarry at Abermain yesterday, a young man named John Nicholls, son of Mr. Thomas Nicholls, J. P., of Bishop's Bridge, met with a serious…

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Broken Hill. Fatal Accident in a Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1907 · page 3

A young man named William McKeeman was fatally injured at Broken Hill Proprietary Mine last night, owing to a huge slab of sulphides falling upon him…

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Fatal Tram Accident [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 January 1907 · page 2

A man, whose name is supposed to have been Ibbotson, was getting out of a tram near Randwick, in order to recover his hat which the wind had…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 2

A man, whose name is supposed to have been Ibbotson, was getting out of a tram near Randwick, on Wednesday, in order to recover his…

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The Sunken Train. A.n American Accident. Drowned Like Rats

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 4

From New York, on 30th October, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:—Further information fails to lessen…

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Shooting Case in Sydney. Man Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 5

William Joseph O'Brien (24), a labourer, was taken to the Balmain Cottage Hospital last night suffering from a bullet wound in the hip. O'Brien, who resides in Drummoyne,…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Shunter's Terrible Injuries. Bathurst

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 5

At the local railway yards at an early hour this morning, a cleaner named Milne Smith, aged 19, was run over by an engine, sustaining fatal injuries. It is not exactly known how the accident…

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Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Garvin, Inspector-General of Police was in the act of a lighting from the tram in King-street this morning when missing his foot he fell heavily to the…

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The Late Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 4

On inquiring at Kurri Kurri Cottage Hospital this Morning regarding the miner, Edward Kelly who has right leg fractured between the ankle and the knee the…

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Remarkable Accident

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

A YOUNG man, Stanley Berry, residing at Balmain, met with a remarkable accident on Sunday morning. He had been camping at…

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Accidents to Firemen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 2

During their visit to Wagga on Monday and Tuesday last, for the purpose of taking part in the Fire Brigade competitions the members of the West Maitland Volunteer Fire Brigade were very…

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Inspector Garvin's Accident Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 2

The condition of the Inspector-General of Police (Mr Garvin), who had his thigh fractured through a fall, while alighting from a tram in Sydney. on…

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Railway Accident Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 2

There was a serious railway accident at Kelso Railway Station this morning. Roy Freeman, a youth, 17 years of age, jumped off a truck at Lithgow,…

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Railway Fatality

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 2

A railway accident occurred et the Bathurst station early on Saturday morn-ing, by, which David Milne Smith, 19 an engine-cleaner, lost bis life. From the…

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