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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

242 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 13

Supposed Drowning Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 29

The Bathurst police received information that a horse with a saddle and bridle on bad been found on the bank of Salt Water Creek on O'Connell Plains-road, seven miles from…

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Echuca Accidents

The Independent · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

Mr J. Beer on Monday, sustained a nasty accident at the Murray River Sawmills. He was engaged at his work when he had his hand jambed…

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Serious Accident

The Independent · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

A man named Dale was admitted into the Hospital yesterday with a badly fractured leg and other injuries. The circumetances are extremely sad…

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Extraordinary Fatal Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 29

William Thompson, aged 15, was present at an entertainment in the town-hall, Forbes, on Friday night last. He was sitting on the back of a wooden seat, when the seat broke, and…

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Russia and Persia. British Interests Injured. London, August 31

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 38

The Russian control of the Customs in Persia, and the influence exercised generally by Russia over the Shah, are seriously interfering with British interests. The…

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Accidental Death

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 28

An inquest was held at Siagieton by the district coroner, Mr Harry Pinchin, into the circumstance surrounding the death of a man named John Albert Yates, of [?],…

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Ways of Living. Accidents That Sink Ships

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 1

THERE is quite an element of comedy,’ said a member of Lloyd’s, ‘in some of the accidents which send ships to the…

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Painful Accident at a Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 21

An unfortunate accident occurred at the spring show of the Geelong Agricultural Society on Wednesday afternoon, by which a middle-aged man named…

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Is Genius an Accident?

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 2

Are first sons more likely to be great than second or third sons ? It is the question of heredity over again, but it has been dealt with lately in an intonating way by an export…

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Fatal Coach Accident. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 2

The mail coach, Gulgong to Gilgandrs, was capsized 12 miles from Gulgong last night, and the driver, James Long, was pinned to the ground by one of the wheels…

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Ways of Living. Accidents That Sink Ships

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 2

‘THERE is quite and element of comedy’ said a member of Lloyd’s ‘in some of the accidents which send ships to the…

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Great Railway Accident. Two Trains in Collision

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 16 September 1901 · page 2

On Friday last the inhabitants of Melbourne were startled with the news that the trains running between Princess-Bridge and Box-Hill had come…

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Rabbits Drowned Wholesale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 29

The last flood in the Tumut River has (says the Tumut Times) been the moans of a large number of rabbits being destroyed. The rodents were forced out of their lairs by an…

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Railway Collision. Serious Accident at Jolimont. No Loss of Life

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 36

A railway accident of a very serious nature, though its results were happily not of a tragic kind, occurred in Melbourne on Friday afternoon, at a quarter-past 3 o'clock…

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Fatal Railway Accidents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 24

A man, aged 50, met with a horrible death near the Eveleigh railway station on Wednesday. The driver of a train of empty waggons saw a man step on to the rails, and before…

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Railway Collision in Roumania. London

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

Two trains collided in Roumania, the cars telescoped and 38 passengers were killed, and 32 injured. VOTES FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 29

Early on Thursday morning James Connolly, aged about 40 years, employed on the railway, was ran over by a light engine at Blaxland and cot to pieces. Neither the driver…

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Traveller. Street Accidents

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 1

AS the vessel that is continually taken to the well is sure to be broken at last, so with most people who go to and fro among…

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Terrible Railway Accident. One Man Killed, Another Injured

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 30 September 1901 · page 4

A middle aged man named Joseph Jackson, a railway employee, was instantly killed on Thursday at Geelong, (Vic.) railway yards, and a porter…

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Fatal Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 28

A shocking railway accident occurred in the Geelong railway yard on Thursday afternoon, resulting in the instantaneous death of a railway employe named Joseph Jackson, and the…

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