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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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A Sensational Railway Accident at Cowra. Railway Trucks Dash Into Mixed Train. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 5

A somewhat serious railway accident occurred at Gowra, about midnight on Sunday. Owing to the accident eight people were more or less injured…

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The Apparently Drowned

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1907 · page 3

The rules for reviving the apparently drowned, which are distributed throughout the State by a fatherly Government, are often much…

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Railway Collision

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 25

A railway collision at Cowra station shortly before midnight on Sunday caused injuries to eight persons. Tho passengers were thrown from their seats…

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Boy Rescued From Drowning. Unsuspected Danger Spot. at "Brighton Beach"' Albury

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 2

Willie Arnold, aged 16, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Arnold, storekeepers of Olive-street, Albury, had a very sensational experience while…

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Night Express Train at Albury. Monday Nights Accident. a "System" That Wants Systematising

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 2

In our last issue we published an account of a somewhat sensational happening at the Albury railway station on Monday night, when a man giving the name of…

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Fatal Accident at the Railway Station

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 23

A fatal accident, surrounded by unusually sad circumstances, occurred at the Albury Railway Station on Saturday night. There were two divisions of the express, which…

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Accident to a Carter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 6

A young man named Frederick Ford, a center, employed by Taylor Bros, produce merchants, 441 Pitt-street, Sydney, met with a painful accident…

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Great Inventions Discovered by Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 7

It is to an accidental invention made by an Italian chemist named Sobrero, fifty-nine years ago, that the world of to-day owes a surprisingly…

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Railway Collision at Lahore. Four Europeans Killed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 December 1907 · page 2

Advices from Lahore state that two North-Western line trains collided with fatal results. Twenty passengers, including four Europeans, are reported to have…

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Accident to Keir Hardie He Drives in a Motor Car. and Breaks His Ribs. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 December 1907 · page 3

Mr. James Keir Hardie, the well-known English labor leader, arrived here last night. He was entertained at a welcome social in the town hall…

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Gun Factory Fatality

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 December 1907 · page 1

The loss of life in the disaster at Palermo, Sicily, where a gun factory was wrecked through an explosion, is greater than was at first stated. A…

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Drowned in the Murray

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 December 1907 · page 6

On Boxing Day George Shaw, of Rutherglen, lost his life in an attempt to swim across the Murray to New South Wales with his clothes…

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Shunter Carson Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 December 1907 · page 7

On Monday, the 23rd inst. a very painful accident happened to railway shunter Carson at Cootamundra,Mr. Carson, who, it will be…

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