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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Accident at Rutherclen

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 4

A painful accident happened to Mr. W. Rowe, of Great Southern, on Easter Monday, says the "Miner." He was driving down the hill in the…

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Wonderful Escapes in Railway Accidents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 46

When a heavy express, rushing along at nearly a mile a minute, leaves the rails, charges another train, or crashes through a bridge, the marvel is not that the death…

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Fatal Accident at Booroorban. The Inquiry

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 2

Mr John Hanlon, J.P., conducted a magisterial inquiry at the Royal Mail Hotel, Booroorban, on the 3rd inst., as to the cause of death of Michael James Moloney, which…

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That Double Buggy Accident. a Live Councillor

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 2

With reference to the double accident to Mr. Henry Hay's Collendina house party when returning in the dark from the tennis…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 5

A fatal railway accident occurred near the Newtown Station, this morning, a guard named Samuel Spacey, aged 45, being decapitated by a train…

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The Trafalgar on a Reef Accident to a Battleship. on the Devils Point Reef. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 2

Another of those accidents to British warships, which have been so frequent of late, has occurred off the coast of England…

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General Cables. London, Tuesday. Serious Accident at a Fire. Seven Firemen Killed by Collapsing Walls

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 5

The chief power house of the Metropolitan Street Railway in New York has been burnt to the ground. Unfortunately the fire was attended by…

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Great Inventions Discovered by Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 3

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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Sunday School Picnic Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 3

A lad named Garnet Garron met with a painful accident at Sunday School picnic held at Pearl Bay, to-day. While running in a race he fell…

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Boating Fatality in New Zealand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 41

A tragic story is told by J. Pilkington, the sole survivor of a pleasure party of five, which left Auckland on Monday morning in a small boat. The others were…

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Shooking Railway Fatality. a Guard Decapitated

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 23

Samuel Spacey, 45, a railway guard, was killed near the Nowtown Station (Sydney) at about 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning. He was engaged in shunting…

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Luxurious Train Wrecked. 73 Passengers Injured. New York, February 26

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 4

Another terrible railway wreck, the second within a week, occurred early yesterday morning. The "Pennsylvania Flyer," which is one of the two…

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New South Wales. (By Telegraph). SYDNEY, Thursday. Fatal Mining Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 3

A fatal mining accident occurred at Broken Hill to-day. A fall of rock took place in the Block mine and a miner named Patrick Devitt was…

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Fatal Riding Accident. Young Man Killed at Little Billabong. Germanton

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

A fatal riding accident occurred to-day at Little Billabong A young mail named Fred Hannan, 10 years of age, who was employed at "Hillside,"…

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Cablegrams. Railway Accident in Canada Train Rolls Down an Embankment. Fifteen Persons Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred yesterday to the transcontinental train running between Chaplean and Ontario half-way between Ottawa and Fort…

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Scalding Accident

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

The Finley “Free: Press” reports that little Olive Tindale, daughter of Mr W. Tindale, of Finley met with a nasty accident last week. It appears that her…

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An Injured Jockey

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 15 April 1907 · page 3

John Lane, a jocKey who was thrown from the horse he was riding at Ballan racecourse, yesterday, and brought down to the Melbourne…

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Fatal Bicycle Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 15 April 1907 · page 3

Mr Pearson, a well-known resident of Camperdown, while riding his bicycle over a bridge yesterday, fell into tin creek" below, a distance of 39 feet,…

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Accident to a Coal Lumper

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 April 1907 · page 3

A coal lumper named John Anderson, while walking from a collier to the steamer Graniala fell between the vessels and sustained a compound…

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Thunderbolt. Mining Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 April 1907 · page 2

At Scarsborough on Saturday last four men were killed by two falls of earth in a tunnel which they were driving for the South Clifton Colliery…

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