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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Pathetic Drowning Case

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 August 1907 · page 2

Three boys named Robert, Frank, aud Norman Carter, aged 7, 6, and 3 years respectively, left their home, Stawell-street, Burnley, at about 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, and…

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General Cable News. London, Wednssday. Fatal Accident on a British Destroyer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 3

An accident has occurred on the British torpedo boat destroyer Spiteful, 6 guns. 360 :—tons, 30 knots. The vessels oil fuel ignited from the stokehold, with the…

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Motor Race Accident. Five Persons Killed. London, August 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 42

The Criterium de France road race, from Paris to Trouville, for motor-cars, was marked by a distressing accident yesterday in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux. Two of…

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Cut Down by a Tram. Verdict: Accidental Death

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 August 1907 · page 3

The cause of death of the old man John Harding, aged 60, who, as reported in our Sydney telegrams on Monday, was killed by being run over…

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Fatal Burning Accident. a Boy Played with Matches

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 5

The death occurred to-day through a burning accident of a little boy aged, two and a hall years, named James Leach, who lived with his…

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Serious Driving Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 August 1907 · page 2

John Cummings, a groom employed by Mr. Breadmore, of Hawkesview, met with a serious accident while going to his employer's residence from Albury at about 12…

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Accident to a Miner

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 August 1907 · page 2

Demas Morton, a miner, aged 33 residing at Jingellic, received painful injuries while engaged cutting wood on Saturday afternoon. The log which Morton was cutting…

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A Fatal Tram Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 August 1907 · page 3

A woman named Harriet Coleman, aged 48, who fell off a train in George-street on. Thursday night, died in the hospital on Saturday night…

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Railway Fatality at Temora

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 August 1907 · page 4

A verdict of accidental death was returned in connection with the shocking fatality which occurred at the Temora railway station. The evidence showed that at the…

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Jammed in a Lift. Max Seriously Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 August 1907 · page 3

A man named Leslie Gibson, who was employed, by Sargood Bros., ware housemen, met with a serious accident to-day. While riding in a goods lift…

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Vehicular Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 August 1907 · page 2

An accident, which might have proved very serious happened to Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Frauenfelder, and their children while driving through Dick's…

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A Street Collision. Four Passengers Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 August 1907 · page 3

A serious street collision, between a tram and a van took place at Haymarket early to-day. There was a large number of passengers travelling…

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Leaving a Moving Tram. Verdict: Accidental Death

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 August 1907 · page 3

An inquiry was held to-day into the circumstances attending the death of a woman named Mrs Coleman, who was killed through sustaining a…

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A Drowning Mystery. Who Were They?

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 8

A terrible river tragedy occurred in the Cliveden Reach of the Thames yesterday afternoon, a lady and gentleman, whose names are unknown, being…

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Accident to the German Empress. an Awkward Slip

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 5

The German Empress has met with an accident at Wilhelmshohe near Kassel. Owing to the heavy rain, the ground was very slippery, and the Empress, missing…

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Run Over by a Motor Car. a Tramway Employe Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 August 1907 · page 3

George Stokes, a tramway yard foreman, was run over by a motor car last night on the Rushcutter Bay road. Stokes sustained a fracture of…

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Serious Accident to a Child Fall From a Balcony

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 August 1907 · page 3

A child named William Armytage, three years of age, fell from the balcony of a house in Surry Hills. The balcony was fifteen feet high. The…

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Accident to a Little Girl

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 August 1907 · page 2

A little girl named Una Crawford, aged 3½ years me with a painful accident at her parents' residence at Mitta Mitta on Saturday afternoon. The little girl was…

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Railway Accident on the Continent. Eleven Persons Killed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 August 1907 · page 3

The overland express, while travelling from Bordeaux to Paris, collided with a goods engine at 11 o'clock on Saturday night near Contras. Eleven persons were…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 August 1907 · page 2

Mr. McLaughlin, of Mahonga, was admitted to St. Margaret's Private Hospital on Sunday last, having sustained a compound fracture of the…

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