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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Fatal Coach Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

A telegram was received at Kempsey from Woollomombi on Thursday night last stating that Dr. Casement bad died from injuries received in a…

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The Recent Coach Accident. Death of Dr. Casement

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 5

IT is with sincere regret that we have to announce that as the result of the injuries sustained in the accident to the Kempsey-Armidale coach briefly…

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Steamer Rocklily Sinks. Accident Whilst Loading

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 8

WHILST the N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer Rocklilly was loading steel rails for the N.C. Railway, at Darling Harbour last week, a rail slipped from the slings and shot…

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Accidents and Fatalities

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1910 · page 5

ELEANOR CLUGHTON, who killed two of her children and wounded two others, then attempted suicide, was committed for trial at Cosgrove…

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Local & General News. Terrible Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1910 · page 4

Port Macquarie police received intimation on Friday that a dreadful accident had happened at Rolland's Plains, by which a lad named Bacon had been…

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News by Wire. Sydney, Wednesday night Collision in Sydney Harbor

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 11

A serious collision occurred in Sydney Harbor last night between the new A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Wyreema and the collier Kurrajong…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 11

William T. Walters and Arnold Yates, both married men, were killed by a fall of earth whilst working in a stope at the 1200 feet level in the…

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Collision. Wyreema and Currajong Off Bradley's Head. the Currajong Sunk

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 7

The steam collier Currajong, Inward bound f rom Wollongong, collided with the outward bound passenger steamer Wyreema on Tuesday night off…

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Shocking Fatality

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 6

News was received in Kempsey on Friday last that a little lad named Henry Francis Bacon, aged 5 years, had met with a dreadful accident at…

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Harbor Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 5

ONE of the most serious harbor collisions for some years past occurred at about' 9.15 on Tuesday night immediately abreast of the lighthouse at Bradley's Head, between…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 6

A narrow escape from drowning has been reported to us as follows :—"On Saturday evening a man name unknown, while attempting to swim…

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Shooting Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 4

A serious accident occurred on Saturday last to Master Irwin H. Mackay, aged 16, fourth son of Mr. H. A. Mackay, of Rolland's Plains and East Kempsey. It seems…

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Drowned at the Paterson. Fatal Fall From a Bridge

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 March 1910 · page 13

A sad drowing fatality occurred at Paterson last Saturday night: Ernest Parkes, a blacksmith, employed at the construction works on the first section…

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Riding Accident

Nambucca News · Friday 25 March 1910 · page 4

A young man named McDonald, who arrived in town from Sydney with Mr. McDougall, the ex-licensee of the Hyde Park hotel, Sydney, last week, met with…

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Terrible Burning Fatality

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 8

A TERRIBLE burning fatality occurred in South Terrace, Adelaide, last week whereby Mrs. A. Hinton, a visitor from Sydney, and one of her sons,…

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5000 Drowned in Mexico

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 4

The flood at Monterrey, in which 5000 people were drowned on the 27th of August last, was caused by the rising of the Santa Catarina, usually a…

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Serious Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 11

A railway employee named Andrew Houston, aged 23 and who resides, at Auburn, was run over by a train this morning at Clyde whilst…

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Double Drowning Fatality. Boy's Extraordinary Evidence

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1910 · page 4

At an inquiry into the , fatality which occurred on Maach, 20. in the river at Burnley, when two little boys —Victor Futcher (9) and George…

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Tram Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 11

At lunch time to-day a double tram en route to the Victoria Park Racecourse collided with another car in Cleveland-street. Several…

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A Sailor Drowned

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 11

While two seamen from the wrecked steamer Minimbah at the Manning Heads were engaged, in salving the cargo they both fell into the sea. One…

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