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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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After the Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 August 1902 · page 4

A young English nobleman, in a frightful railway accident, missed his valet. One of the guards came up o him and said. My lord, we…

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Fatal Accident. an Awful Death. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 August 1902 · page 2

Frank Briefly, a plasterer, residing at Hurstville was mangled to death on the railway line this morning while undeavouring to board an…

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Disastrous Collision at Sea. Twenty-three Drowned. London, August 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 35

The four-masted steel barque the High-fields, from Cardiff to Cape Town, came into collision with the steamer Kalser, which was anchored at Table Bay. The…

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Terrible Collision. Fifty Lives Lost

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 36

The Ventura, which arrived ab Sydney from San Francisco on Saturday, brought the following account of a terrible collision on the River Elbe, in Germany :-…

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Motor Fatality. Two Americans Killed. London, August 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 27

A shocking motor fatality has occurred near Evreux, in Normandy. Mr. Fair, a brother-in-law of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, wife of the New York millionaire…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 38

Some five weeks ago a little boy named Lomax, son of parents residing at Tarramia, was accidentally burned so severely that on 12th insfc. he died. An…

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Buggy Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 29

A sensational baggy accident occurred in Mitchell-street, Bendigo, near the railway station, on Saturday. A. number of friends had been bidding sdien to Dr. H. Osborne…

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Sawmill Accidents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 29

A return was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly by the Minister for Labour showing that during 1902 nine accidents were reported as having taken place…

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Accident to a Clergyman

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 29

The Rev. Father Sherin, assistant parish priest in the Cooma district, met with a nasty accident last week at Rogers'a Kiah Lake station, near Berridale. He saw a…

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Accidents

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 August 1902 · page 1

Statistics show that in fifty-four cases out of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the night. Farther evidence of this fact is supplied…

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Accidents

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 25 August 1902 · page 6

Statistics show that in fifty-four cases out of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. Further evidence of this fact is supplied…

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Russian Military [?] an Unfortunate Incident. Fifty Men Drowned. London

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 August 1902 · page 2

At the recent military man[?] near St. Petersburg, a squadron of cavalry was ordered to pluage late a river, and 60 men were drowned…

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Electric Light Fatality. a Workman's Terrible Death

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 34

While engaged in fastening an electric light cable to an insulator in Melbourne on Monday, an employee of the Electric Light and Traction Company, named Alfred Wright…

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Railway Crossing Accident. a Contractor Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 35

A shocking fatality occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the Creswick-road railway gates, The Adelaide-Melbourne mail special being due, Mrs. Pawson, wife of the gatekeeper…

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Machinery Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 28

The shocking machinery accident by which a workman employed at a South Melbourne foundry was deprived of life by being caught in a rapidly revolving shaft…

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Fatal Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 29

Ethel Kellock, aged 15, daughter of Mr. Edwin Kellock, blacksmith, at Violet Town, met with a severe burning accident, which terminated fatally. She was…

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Frightful Accident. Fall of 140 Feet

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 25

A fatal accident took place at Wyalong on Sunday afternoon, when a schoolboy named Martin Wills, 13 years of age, came to an untimely end through falling down a shaft…

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Alpine Accidents. Nearly 40 Fatalities. London, August 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 26

Two brothers named Fearon, tourists, were killed in an alpine storm while ascending the Wetterhorn. One of them was a London carate, and the other was a…

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Accidents

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 1

Statistics show that in fifty-four cases out of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. Farther evidence of this fact is supplied…

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Railway Collision at Charing Cross. London

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 2

At Charing Cross on Saturday a collision occurred by which [?] on the Glasgow train were telescoped and twenty-five persons injured. The…

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