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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Train Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 6

OWING to the brakes refusing to sct, a tram car Irom Abbo[?]d, bound for the oity, crashed into the rear of a tram from Leichhardt, travelling in the same direction,…

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Fearful Burning Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 4

A shocking burning fatality occurred at Berry Park, between Morpeth and Thornton. A spark ignited the residence of Joseph Tumor,…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Accident at Mount Morgan

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 4

An accident has occurred at Mount Morgan mine, four men being badly burned…

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Motor Car Tragedy. Heiress Killed and Millionaire Injured

Nambucca News · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 8

A terrible motor accident occurred in Long Island on 19th November, in which Mrs Frances Burton Harrison, daughter-in-law of the authoress,…

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Terrible Shooting Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 7

Three young men, Edward Rowles and George Francis Cook and Stanley Cook (twin brothers), went to the top of Mount Keira Mountain on Friday…

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Accident to the Kallatina

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 1 July 1909 · page 7

THE steamer Kallatina, while waiting to enter the Clarence River on Thursday morning struck the rocks on Yamba Point, about half a mile south…

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Buggy Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 1 July 1909 · page 8

QUITE a shock was experienced by the many friends of Miss Clara Lancaster and Miss Norah Landers on Thursday evening last when the news was…

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Wild Scenes in Paris. Riots in a Church. a Hundred Persons Injured

Nambucca News · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 8

Arising out of the new law for the separation of Church and State, there were scenes of extraordinary violence inv Paris to-day. They occurred in the…

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Elevated Railways. a New York Accident. Burning Wreckage

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 12

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 19th January:— The precipitancy of a workman in…

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Steamer Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 July 1909 · page 4

The French cargo steamer Circe struck the steamer Whakatane from London to Auckland in a fog in the English Channel. The latter was…

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Fatality in the Name

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 July 1909 · page 2

The new patient had been put to bod by the nurse. Upon waking he inquired— "Phwat did ye say the doctor's name…

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Man Accidentally Shot

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 July 1909 · page 4

A SHOCKING fatality occurred on Friday night, about three miles from Armidale, at Montrose, when Mr. Willinni Henry Haynes was…

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Nasty Accident

Nambucca News · Friday 9 July 1909 · page 4

Young Rex Raymond, son of Mr S J. Raymond of this town, met with a nasty accident on Monday, afternoon. He took some feed in a tin to give to one…

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Accident at Wingham

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 July 1909 · page 7

On Wednesday of last week Mr. Fred. Frost, when taking his horse and sulky out of Mr. J. W. Murray's yard at Wingham, left the animal for a…

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Fatal Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 10 July 1909 · page 11

A railway inspector named James Newbery Bridge, while riding a tricycle along the line near Cairns, was run down and killed by a special…

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Accidents

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 15 July 1909 · page 4

Mr. John Chapman, while following his occupation of drover at Wollomombi, had tho misfortune to fall, over a precipice, and falling a distance…

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Railway Fatality

Macleay Argus · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 11

A telegram from Melbourne states that while Arthur Bertram Williams, aged 63, was driving over an open railway crossing at Kingswood…

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The Injured Navvies

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 3

We are pleased to state that the three navvies (Mulholland, Hickey, and O'Brien), who were severely injured in the recent blasting accident…

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Accidents and Offences

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 July 1909 · page 4

Mrs. Parmenter, aged 24, burned to death at Lismore, through her clothes catching fire. The body of a former inmate of a Sydney…

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Terrible Explosion. at a German Cycle Race Two Motors in Flames. Four Killed, 32 INJURED

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1909 · page 13

During a long distance bicycle race, in the old Botanic Gardens at Berlin, two motor cycles, which were acting as pacemakers, collided and exploded…

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