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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Fatal Accident. Man Killed at Broken Bago

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1913 · page 4

ON Tuesday last one of the men engaged at the Broken Bago railway works was killed by a tree falling across his camp. The following day the District Coroner, F. Hayward, Esq., J.P., held an…

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Terrible Accident Near Glen Innes Man Cut to Pieces

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1913 · page 7

News of a terrible railway fatality was received in Glen Innes on Thursday. A railway fettler named James Ford, living at varraford, was run…

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Train Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 4

The nine o'clock train from Gloucester was delayed, for over an hour on Wednesday morning through an accident to the goods train coming from…

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Railway Accident in India

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 14

A serious railway accident has occurred at Nagpur, Bombay. Through some miscalculation a passenger train came into collision with a goods…

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Motor Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 4

SATURDAY afternoon, about half-past three, Mr. J. Le Petit, in his powerful 33 cwt. motor car, four passengers aboard, going up-river suddenly met,…

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Heavy Sea on the Coast--officer Drowned

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 May 1913 · page 11

Whilst going through the Sydney Heads shortly after midnight with a big sea running, the Burwah met with a bad time. Mr. Malcolm,…

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Serious Motor Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 May 1913 · page 14

THE necessity of fencing the dangerous turns on the Upper Macleay road was emphasised on Saturday afternoon last when Mr. Jack Le Petit's car came to…

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Motor Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 7

SATURDAY afternoon, about half-past three, Mr. J. Le Petit, in his powerful 33 ewt. motor car, four passengers aboard, going up-river suddenly met, at the ugly bend beyond Uralgurra, the Rev. Jas…

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Shooting Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 5

The land of tragedy, sometimes mixed with comedy, the Upper South Arm, Bellinger (says the "Courier"), has added still one more to its many…

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Correspondence. the Sad Fatality at Smithtown. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 2

SIR,--In view of the melancholy accident which has just occurred here, and which has brought sorrow into every home in the district, it seems opportune…

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Gas Explosion at Kendall. Resident Seriously Injured

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 6

Whilst attending to an acetylene gas plant at Messrs. Hay, Bros. sawmill at Kendall, last Monday night, Mr. Harold Skinner, Secretary of the firm and also a partner in…

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Serious Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 4

ON Monday night Mr. H. Skinner, secretary to Messrs. Hay Bros., sawmillers, of Kendall, was engaged replenishing the gas plant of the Collindon mill when by some means unaccounted for the…

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Fatal Driving Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 4

A FATAL accident happened on Monday near Smithtown, when Alice, aged 15, daughter of Mr. Tom Plummer, was thrown out of a sulky and killed. The girl was driving in a sulky with her…

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Town Topics. Fatal Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 4

Yesterday week at Mr., Boyes, Warrell Creek sawmill a piece of timber flew from the saw with fearful force and struck the sawyer, Mr…

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Shocking Railway Fatality

Macleay Argus · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 14

A young man named Bert. Bingham, aged 23, the night officer at Kingsvale station, was coming into…

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Railway Collision in Auckland Miraculous Escapes

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 5

A sensational collision occurred in the bridge near Auckland (N.Z), on Wednesday morning between a goods and a passenger train. The third…

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Serious Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 6

ON Wednesday evening the little daughter, Millie, 6 years old, of Mr. W. Stevens, met with a serious accident, which resulted in a fractured skull and rendered her…

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Such a Frightful Accident

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 2

It was the time of the grout blizzard of 1891. Just below Camborne, on the G.W.R., is a lofty viaduct, at that time a wooden structure, but lately rebuilt of stone…

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Collision on the Bridge

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 7

THE inevitable has happened inconsequence of the curtailment of the road space on the Kempsey Bridge. Last night (Thursday) a motor and a…

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Recent Fatal Accident at Warrell Creek Sawmill

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 11

MR. C. E. Adams, of Macksville, writes to us as follows:--In your issue of May 30th there appears an amazing account of the sad and…

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