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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Electra-Energy Collision

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 7

The further hearing of the cross-action for damages arising out of the collision between Messrs. Brown and Brown's tug Energy, and the North…

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Terrible Train Collision in England. Twenty-nine Deaths. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 3

A TERRIBLE train collision has occurred at Salisbury, England. The train contained 47 passengers, who were chiefly arrivals by the liners from New…

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Latest by Cable. London, Monday. Railway Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 4

The express train, Devonport to London, was wrecked near Salisbury on Sunday morning, 28 persons being killed. After leaving Salisbury station the train…

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A Child Drowned at Forster. Forster

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 5

A CHILD named John Gillard, aged five years, was accidently drowned near the ferry wharf lost evening. The little fellow was a grandson of Mrs. and the late Mr. John Hocking…

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Drowning Fatality at Forster. Magisterial Inquiry

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 July 1906 · page 3

A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held by the District Coroner, Mr. A. Gates, P.M., at Forster, on Friday morning last, into the cause of death of John Gillard, a boy 5 years of age, who was drowned at Forster…

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Drowned Boy Mystery. Mother Charged with Murder

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 2

A strange story, the outcome at which was that a woman named Louisa Tiffin was, charged with the wilful murder of her six-year-old son William, was told at a Hackney…

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Storms and Floods In New Zealand. Schooner Wrecked and Crew Drowned

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 4

DISASTROUS floods have occurred in the North Island of New Zealand. Land a few miles from Gisborne is 10ft. under water…

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Electra-Energy Collision. the Reserved Judgment

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 2

SIR William Owen sitting as Deputy Indge Commissary in Vice-Admiralty, on Friday morning, delivered his reserved decision in the cases of John Brown and William Brown against the North Coast…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning. a Plucky Girl

Macleay Argus · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 12

ON Wednesday afternoon last Jack Gough, aged 4 years and 6 months, son of Mr. Gough, of East Kempsey, was nearly drowned in the Macleay River…

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Honeymoon Tragedy. Bride Drowned

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 August 1906 · page 2

Mrs Maria Bella Kershaw, who had been married only a few days, was drowned at Crookham, a village on the Berkshire side of the Thames,…

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Terrible Shipping Disaster. 300 Persons Drowned. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 2

The Italian steamer Sirio, bound from Genoa for Buenos Ayres with 800 emigrants, struck the Hormigas shoals, eighteen miles from Cartagena, and sank stern first, within…

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Disastrous Shipwreck. 800 Immigrants Aboard. 300 People Drowned. Terrible Scenes Witnessed Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 2

The steamer Senor Genor to Buenos Ayres, with 800 sank off the Spanish coast, She struck a shoal, and sank within half-an-hour…

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Terrible Shipping Disaster. 300 Persons Drowned

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 11

THE Italian steamer Sirio, bound from Genoa for Buenos Ayres with 800 emigrants, struck the Hormigas shoals, eighteen miles from…

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Sad Fatality at Hickey's Creek. School Teacher Found Dead

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 5

Early on Wednesday morning last the dead body of Mr. E. O. Hutchinson, teacher of the half-time schools at Toorooka and Willawarrin, was…

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Railway Accident to Czar Alexander Iii

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 2

On October 29, 1888, a perilous accident happened near Borki, in South Russia, to the Imperial train by which the Emperor Alexander III…

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Awful Motor Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 23 August 1906 · page 3

THE electric tram disaster at Highgate, England, has been followed by a still more serious accident to one of the "Vanguard " motor omnibuses (writes a correspondent…

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Terrible Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 September 1906 · page 7

A STRANGE fatality occurred last week in the Upper Murray district. At about midnight Constable Wilkinson, of Bowna, was apprised of the fact that a horse with harness…

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Sailing Boat Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 September 1906 · page 5

An eighteen foot sailing boat was struck by a heavy squall near the Heads on Sunday and capsized, and sank almost immediately. The occupants are believed to have been…

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Drowned at Gundagai

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 September 1906 · page 5

While two boys were attempting to cross the flooded river at Gundagai in a boat, yesterday, one of them Herbert Booby, aged 12, become frightened and jumped out…

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The Late Fatal Accident at Hickey's Creek. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 8

SIR,--In an issue of a few weeks back I noticed, in referring to the late unfortunate fatal accident to Mr. Hutchinson, your Hickey's Creek correspondent…

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