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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Bathing Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 4

News from Mittagong states that Mrs. H. Lowe, accompanied by her daughter Frances, and Elsie Mary Pope, aged 14, daughter of…

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Fearful Accident in Sydney Harbour

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 4

A terrible accident took place in Sydney Harbour early this morning. A party of 70 or 80 blue jackets belonging to the warship Encounter left…

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Fatal Collision

Nambucca News · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.-- The steamer Dunmore collided with a Naval pinnace containing about 75 men in the harbor this morning. Fifteen sailors are…

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Two Bisters Drowned

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 4

Two sisters, Winnie and Ethel Griffiths, aged 15 and 12 years respectively, got beyond their depth while hating in the railway tANK, Wyalong,…

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Church Fatality in Switzerland

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 4

Forty people have been killed and 60 injured in Switzerland by the roof of a church collapsing…

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Mail Coach Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 3

THE occupants of the Grafton-Glen Innes mail c[?]ach had a sensational and never-to-be-forgotten experience early on Boxing morning. The coach left South Grafton…

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News by Wire. Country Press Co-operative Co,'s Agency.] Sydney, Thursday. Cricketers Injured

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 11

A motor car containing the Rev. Father Fleming and several of the South Australian cricketers was overturned at Sutherland yesterday…

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Accident at Dapto Show

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 11

At the Dapto Show yesterday during the Hunter's contest a horse named The Barb cleared two fences and then bolted. The animal jumped…

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Fatal Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 11

A girl named Beatrice Higgins, aged 12 years, living at Murrurundi, was accidentally shot dead yesterday through a cartridge exploding in a…

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Railway Collision in America

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 4

A goods train collided with a passenger train near Denver and a drawing room car was telescoped, 68 out of 69 passengers in it being killed…

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Nearly Electrocuted. Two Men Injured

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 10

At Newcastle, on Tuesday, a serious injury was received by one man in the city streets through coming in contact with a live wire, connected with the…

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Serious Buggy Accident at Krambach

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 10

While Mr. Edwin Wright, wife and 3 children, with Mrs. H. Blaiklock and her two children, were returning from a social call at Krambach on Mr…

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Steamer Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

The White Star Liner Republic 15,000 tons collided with an unknown vessel off Nantucke. The Republic was starting on an excursion to the…

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Terrible Alpine Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

An avalanche in Urka Pass, Switzerland overwhelmed Major Bayloy, of the Royal Artillery, Licut. Rorkely Hill, of the 2nd Middicac[?] Regiment. Major Mirian, of the…

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The "Republic" Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

Details of the sinking of the Republic show that she collided with the steamer Florida. The latter had 800 Italian immigrants on board…

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Drowned with St Bathing

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

Doris Studdart, 15, and Elsie Buist, 16, have been drowned in the Murr[?] bidgee at Narrandera while bathing…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Collision in the Harbour

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

The steamers Jenny Lind and Linda Davis collided in the Harbour on Saturday. The latter filled quickly and foundered, the only man on board…

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Latest Cables. LONDON, Saturday. Ten Whites and 150 Natives Drowned

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

Reuter's Johanncsburg correspondent states that Kinght's dam burst and flood[?]d the Witwater[?]rand Mine. Teh whites and 150 natives were drowned…

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Serious Buggy Accident at Krambach

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 6

WHILE Mr. Edwin Wrights, wife and 3 children, with Mrs. H. Blaiklock and her two children, were returning from a social call at Krambach on Mr. and Mrs. Deer on…

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Railway Crossing Fatality

Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 14

George Smith was kill[?]ed and five others seriously injured at a railway crossing near Geelong yesterday. The men were in a…

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