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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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Accidents

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 8

On Friday night last week Mr. W. Morrissey was driving his cart loaded: with 200 dozen of eggs on the main road near Frederickton when he ran…

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Shooting Fatality. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 2

Some boys were playing at Charter's Towers, when one of them named Nelson pointed a pea rifle at a companion named Roddie, aged 15, and fired, not…

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Fatal Coach Accident. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 6

The mail coach from Gulgong to Gilgandra capsized about 12 miles from Gulgong last night. The driver, has Long, was pinned to the ground by a…

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Coopernook. Sept. 12. Serious Accident

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 6

An accident of a very serious nature happened on Monday last to a man named William Wilkes, of Stewart's River. It appears that…

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Terrible Shooting Accident. Len. Trotter Shot Dead. Huntingdon

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 18 September 1901 · page 3

Len. Trotter, son of W.G. Trotter, whilst our shooting accidentally shot himself. Later…

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Sad Shooting Fatality

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 2

A GREAT gloom was cast over the upper river when the sad news became known on Saturday last that Lanchlan Lindsay Trotter, or "Len," as he was more…

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Railway Fatality. Sydney Friday'

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 6

A railway employee, named James Connolley was cut to pieces by a locomotive near Blaxland station yesterday…

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Terrible Torpedo Boat Disaster. 78 Men Drowned. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 4

THE torpedo boat destroyer Cobra, while on her steam trial, struck on a rock in dowsing Shoals, and broke in halves and foundered. Only twelve men, out of her crew of 90, were…

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Ways of Living. Accidents That Sink Ships

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 9

THERE is quite an element of comedy,' said a member of Lloyd's, in some of the accidents which send ships to the…

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Lucky Accidents

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 7

A lady, who, with her children, had intended journeying to the Channel Islands by the ill-fated Stella, slipped as she was entering the cab that was to…

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Lucky Accidents

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 26 September 1901 · page 7

A lady, who, with her children, had intended journeying to the Channel Islands by the ill-fated Stella, clipped as the was entering the cab that was to…

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Sad Shooting Fatality

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

A great gloom was cast over the upper river when the sad news became known on Saturday last that Launch-Ian Lindsay Trotter, or "Len," as he…

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Is Genius an Accident?

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

Are first sons more likely to be great than second or third sons? It is the question of heredity over again, but it has been dealt with lately in an interesting way by an expert…

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Is Genius an Accident?

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 October 1901 · page 2

Are first sons more likely to be great than second or third sons? It is the question of heredity over again, but it has been dealt with lately in an interesting way by an expert…

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Drowned in the Warren. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 9 October 1901 · page 2

Two brothers, named Colls, have been drowned in the River Warren…

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Fatal Gun Accident Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 9 October 1901 · page 2

George Swaine, one of a party of Sydney sportsmen, was shot, dead through a gun accident at Gamden yesterday. The weapon exploded…

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Traveller. Street Accidents

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 4

AS the vessel that is continually taken to the well is sure to be broken at last. so with most people who go to and fro among…

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Torpedo Destroyers in Collision. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 6

Twelve Torpedo Destroyers were caught in a fog at the Mouth of the Tyne. Three of them were seriously injured by collision…

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Peculiar Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 9

The danger of allowing stock to stray along the main roads at night was strikingly exemplified on Thursday of last week when Mr. and Mrs…

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Terrible Fatality at Glenthorne. a Young Man Killed Instantly. Magisterial Inquiry

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 30 October 1901 · page 3

A MAGISTERIAL Inquiry was held at the Court House, Taree, on Monday afternoon last at 5 o'clock by Mr. T. B. Boyce, J. P., respecting the death of Alexander Thomas Trotter, whose body was then…

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