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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Man Found Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 15

George Greer a boatman at Port Melbourne, found the dead body of an elderly man floating in the water beside the Gempior on monday morning;. The body was…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

Mr. A. Camplin, the proprietor of the Terminus Hotel, met with a peculiar accident one day last week. Whilat "sparring" with a friend he…

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A Painful Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 3

An empleye at the Newport workshops named Stephen Newton who resides at South Yarra met with a painful injury to-day. He Shipped anf fell…

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A Church Floor Collapses. Twelve Killed and One Hundred Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 3

The floor of Zion Church, Brooklyn, collapsed during progress of the service, Twelve worshippers were killed and…

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Idiots Should Be Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 3

In explaining the system of classification recently adopted by the School Board for the disposal of backward children, Dr Brown, made this…

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Driving Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 29

A sensational accident occurred at Cunninghama on Friday. Twelve persons were returning in a pair drag, belonging .to Mr. .John Confait, licensee of the…

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Latest by Telegraph. Latest News From Sydney, Found Drowned. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 2

The body of an elderly man who lived in a cave at Kerosene Day, North Sydney, has been found in a gully. He was apparently drowned…

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Serious Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 28

A telegram from Kalgoorlie says:—Mr. Pierre Ledoux, director of the Associated Mine, who, since the retirement of Mr. Gleisberg, has been filling the post of…

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Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 29

A shocking mining accident, By which a young man named Alfred Parkins, an accountant, lost his life, occurred at the North Boulder mine, Kalgoorlie, on…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 2

Mr. Alex. Roe, employed by Mr. H. Clayton, baker, met with a painful accident at about 1 p.m. yesterday. While driving in a delivery cart he…

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Tram Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 3

The evidence at the inquest to-day on the body of the little girl, Ethel Donnison, who was run over by a tram in Elizabeth-street yesterday, showed…

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Drowned in a Water Hole

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 3

An Inquest was held to-day touching the death of a boy named Edgar Charles Dunstan, 11½ years old, at North Comphellfield. Deceased, in…

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Diver Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 3

The work of getting out the propellor of the wrecked R.M.S. Australia is proceeding satisfactorily, but during the operations to-day, a diver named…

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Shipping Disaster Ship Kilyber Wrecked. Twenty-three Drowned. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 2

The sailing ship Khyber, 1927 [?], belonging to T. and J. Brecklelank, of Liverpool, which left melbourne on October 27 last, with a cargo of wheat…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. River Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 20 March 1905 · page 3

A young girl named Teresa Magelles aged nine years, who resides with her parents slipped off the ferry steps at Burnley this afternoon about…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 March 1905 · page 2

On St. Patrick's Day an unpleasant experience was the lot of Mr. Nolan, Junr., and his two sisters, of Quat Quatta, who were occupants of a…

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Accident to a Railway Employe

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 3

News reached Albury last evening of a painful accident which had been sustained by Mr. E. Vile an Albury resident, whose parents are now living in…

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Drowning Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 29

A boy named William Watson, aged 11, was supposed to have been drowned in a waterhole at Marrackville, on Friday. At about half-past 3 in the afternoon his cap…

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A Collision at Sea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 8

"Vessel on the weather bow, sir." "All right," sang out the master; then, turning to me, he said, "Go, for'ud and see what it is."…

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Painful Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 2

On Saturday last a young man named Harold Johns, eldest son of Mr. John Johns, of Christmastown, met with a very painful accident while…

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