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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. a Serious Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 3

A serious accident happened this morning to a man named William Brooks, 57 years of age, an engineer. He was working on the steamer Wahringah when…

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Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 2

On Sunday Mrs. Albert Camplin met with an unfortunate accident. Whilst going about the house she trod on a piece of water melon…

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The Bristol Channel Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 5

The steamer Heliopolis (1668 tons), which collided with and sank the small steamer Orinda in the Bristol Channel, was on her way to Cardiff…

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Painful Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 21 February 1907 · page 3

Mr George Gordon, a draughtsman employed in the Lands Department, met with a painful accident last night. He was walking alone the footpath at…

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Horrors of Shipwreck. the Midnight Collision. Terrible Tales of Suffering. London, February 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 42

The further details published of the disaster to the steamer Larchmont, which sank off Rhode Island at midnight on Monday, invest the whole story with a peculiar…

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A Painful Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 2

A painful accident happened yesterday afternoon to an elderly man named John Bloomfield employed as a casual hand at the Albury Railway Station…

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Cablegrams. a Fearful Wreck. 180 People Drowned. Loss of a Passenger Steamer at Holland. Only Two Persons Saved. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 2

Full details have been received of an appalling shipwreck at Rotterdam, in Holland, early on Wednesday morning…

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Accident Caused by Breakdown of Engines. Berlin Valued at £70,000. Later

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 2

Colonel Herbert was the bearer of important diplomatic despatches for Denmark, Russia, Germany and Persia…

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Accident on Tee Sydney Road. Warning to Bicyclists

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 5

An accident, illustrative of a little heeded source of risk to bicyclists, occurred on the Sydney Road yesterday, morning when Mr A. Bremer, an…

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Scores Drowned in the Saloon

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 February 1907 · page 2

Scores of passengers who remained inside the saloon and were drowned…

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An Unsuspecting Captain. Passes His Drowning Wife

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 February 1907 · page 2

Just after the disaster the steamer Dunster passed the wreck, in charge of Captain Ruthern. The captain at that time was not…

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Norwegian Ship Wrecked. Sailors Washed Off and Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 February 1907 · page 2

A Norwegian sailing vessel, the name of which also has not transpired, has been wrecked off the west coast of Jutland in Denmark…

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An Injured Man Dying

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 4

Charles Clarke, aged 45 years, a married man, residing at Stanley, was admitted to the Ovens District ,Hospital on Monday of last week,…

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Bombarding the Police. Ten Injured at Odessa

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 2

Another bomb outrage has been perpetrated at Odessa, on the Black Sea. A chief of police was wounded by the explosion, and nine others were…

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Great Railway Accidrnt. Train Falls Down an Embankment. and Lodges in a River. Fifty Passengers Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 2

Another disastrous railway accident has been added to the long list supplied by American railway companies. While the palatial train, known as…

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Wreck of the Imperatrix. Forty of the Crew Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 2

Forty of the crew, of the Lloyd-Austrian liner Imperatrix were drowned in the wreck of the vessel, which recently occurred in a heavy gale on…

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Express Derailed. Fifty People Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 28

A sensational accident has occurred on the Pennsyivania-Chicago railroad. The train, known as the 18:hours express, was derailed at a curve while approaching…

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WODONGA. Thursday. Painful Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 2

An unfortunate accident occurred at Wodonga Most yesterday, through which a young man named Frederick Leitch, son of Mr. J. Leitch lost a…

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Pea Rifle Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 5

Yesterday morning a shooting accident occurred at Mr. J. H. Oswald's cordial factory, as a result of which Master Willie Oswald, son…

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The Accident to Mr. W. S. Norman

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 21

The condition of Mr. W. S. Norman, who was knocked down by a fractions horse at the Wodonga saleyards last week, has occasioned his family and friends…

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