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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

516 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 26

Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 6

While Ms. and Mrs. Knight were driving to Corowa yesterday morning from their home, at Falland Lodge, Colfendina, the horse shied,…

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A Serious Gun Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 5

A message from W.A. states that a sad shopping accident arrived near Collie a coal mining town on the Collie River, 134 miles S.S.E. of Perth, George Cleaning,…

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Drowned Off Manly Wharf

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 3

Shortly after eleven o'clock on Friday night a man named james Day idson, 1n employee of the Union Banking Co., fell off the wharf at…

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Blasting Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 2

A man named William Casey, employed by Mr, Severs, a dealer in second-hand metals, from Melbourne, met with painful injuries as the…

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Cablegrams. an Awful Railway Accident. Grim Tragedy at Antwerp Forty Passengers Killed. Fight Others Injured. Indescribable Scenes of Agony. Flight of the Spinalman. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

News has just been received of a terrible railway accident which occurred near Antwerp, in Belgium, yesterday. Very few particulars are available, but…

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Horrible Belting Accident a Fitter Loses His Leg. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 5

A frightful belting accident occurred this afternoon at the works of the Meadowbank Agricultural Machinery Co., near Ryde…

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Murrurundi Railway Accident Apportioning the Blame

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 5

As a result of the inquiry into the cause of the railway collision at Murrurundi on Good Friday morning, when the Glen Innes and Brisbane mail…

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Fall of an Airship. From a Height of 300 Feet. Sixteen Persons Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

An ambitious attempt to conquor the air received a sensational check on Saturday at Berkele, in California; U.S.A., when a number of persons experienced a…

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Fatal Tram Collision

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 2

Two tramcars collided at Philadelphia. Four people were killed and twelve injured…

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Wharf Laborers Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 5

A severe accident to-day befell James Matthews, a married man of 45 years of age, residing at South yarra, while assisting to load a cargo of flour on the…

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Cablegrams. a Terrible Tramway Accident. a Pointsman;s Mistake. P[?]ladelphla Electric Cars Collide. for R Killed; Twelve Badly [?] LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 2

A [?]ragir [?] was made by a [?] as the Philadelphia electric tram-waya on [?]. [?] be [?] two [?]…

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Philodelphia Tramway Smash. Wrecked Cars Career Down Hill. and Collide with Four Others. Seventy Persons Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 May 1908 · page 2

Further particulars have been received of the serious disaster on the Philadelphia electric tramway system, where two cars, going in opposite direction came into…

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Trains Collide. Ghastly Scenes in the Wreckage. 40 KILLED, 80 INJURED London, May 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 43

Two trains collided yesterday near Antwerp, in Belgium. From the tangled mass of wreckage, 40 dead bodies were removed, while 80 passengers were lifted out in an…

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Flight That Failed Airs Flip Falls 300 Feet. Sixteen People Injured. London, May 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 42

The trial which was being made of a new airship at Berkeley, California has ended in disaster. Thousands of people had assembled to…

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Cause of the Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 42

Later details regarding the accident to the Morrell air-ship in California show that when it had attained a height of 300 ft. the machine tilted, with its nose…

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An Unusual Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 29

An accident of an unusual character, resulting in the loss of five lives, took place recently at the works in connection with the extension of the Paris Metropolitan Railway…

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Dreadful Accident at Morven. Little Girl Severely Burned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 2

A terrible accident happened about 7 o'clock yesterday morning at Morven, by which a little girl named May Graham received dreadful injuries. The child, who…

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Sensational Lamp Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 8

A girl named Annie I'asslow, 20 years of age, had a terrible experience at Coottee, in the Wagga district. She was carrying a lamp…

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Drowning in State

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 6

Graf Finkenstein, wo was very aroud of his lineage, fell from the Hamburg-American luuor into the sea. "Man overboard!" shouted a…

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Cycling Fatality at Wangaratta. Evidence at the Inquest. Wangaratta, Friday. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Unknown Man Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 5

An inquest was held at the Wangaratta Hospital to-day before Mr.P.S. Thomson, J.P., acting as Coroner, touching the death of the young man The dead body of a man, apparently about 50 years of age, whose name was not yet been ascertained, was round floating under the Union…

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