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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

516 stories in Murray's papers · page 16 of 26

The Matchless Kindler Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 July 1908 · page 3

The circumstances surrounding the death of James Bennett, the victim of the fire at the Matchless Kindler Factory, on May 13 last…

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The Widow of a Novelist Injured by a Motor Car

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 July 1908 · page 3

The widow of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous novelist, has been the victim of a serious accident. She was motoring in San Francisco when a mishap occurred…

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Accident to a Pioneer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1908 · page 6

Mr. Alan Lindsay, one of the pioneers of the Taminick district, met with a serious accident on Friday last. He was engaged in cutting limbs from she-oak, trees on the…

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Recent Bay Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 July 1908 · page 5

The Court of Marine Inquiry to-day delivered its finding in regard to the collision which occurred on June 30, in the fairway o Hobson's bay…

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Mans's Hand Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 July 1908 · page 2

At an early hour, yesterday, morning a man named Robert Osmond, aged Jo, was admitted to the Albury Hospital, suffering from a badley injured…

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Road Accident at Perth

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 July 1908 · page 5

A [?] from Perth W.A. states that [?] road accident occurred in the [?]night. Two inspectors under the Central Board of Health were riding back…

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Drowned in a Tunnel. River Rushes In. and Traps 25 Miners. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 July 1908 · page 3

A terrible affair is reported t have occured in the loctschberg Tunnel in Switzerland, which is to pierce the Als for purposes of railway communication…

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Accident Near Henty

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 July 1908 · page 2

On Tuesday Mr. Crawford, one of the oldest settlors in the Urangeline district, met with a rather serious accident about two milos from Henty…

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Tunnelling the Alps. Twenty-five Workmen Drowned. London, July 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 42

A disaster has occurred in the Rhone glacier, in Switzerland, where railway construction work is in progress, Blasting operations had been in progress in the…

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Murrurundi Accident. Railway Officials Acquitted

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 45

J.B. Dwyer and W. Gibson, the railway officials who were on duty at Murrurundi on Good Friday, when a collision took place between a section of the…

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Acetylene Gas Explosion Two Men Injured at Milawa. Wangaratta

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 2

On Thursday while Mosure, C. Kattle and Thomas Nellson when attending to the gasemoter of the [?]gas plant at Kottie's Emu Hotel, Mllawa…

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Found Drowned

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

At the Morgue to-day the Coroner held and inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an old man named charles Henry Lush, whose…

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Items of News. a Woman Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 August 1908 · page 2

A woman named Mrs. Brougham met with an injury to her head in Albury on Saturday night, She full in a lane at the rear of the George…

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Sensational Coaching Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 2

A seusalional acoident aeourred to the Omeo and Glen Wills mail coaoh, four milos out of Sunnyside, on the Journoy to cmeo, one of the horses…

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In a Submar[?] Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 3

A [?] of the crew of the S[?] the [?] which was [?] in a coff[?] under water with her [?] the…

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A London Racing Accident. Killed on the Track

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred at the motor our meeting at the Brouklands racing rack, london yesterday. A Mereedes ear of 70 horse power was…

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An Injured Miner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 32

The County Court concluded a days' sitting at Kyneton on Friday afternoon, and with the exception of half an hour the whole time was taken up by an…

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Wounded in a Duel. Fencer Injured by a Novice

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 8

A fierce duel (says " Lloyd's Weekly") was fought on the 14th May in the grounds of the Big Wheel in Paris between a young man named…

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Hong Kong Typhoon. a Great Disaster. Thousands of Chinese Drowned. London. July 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 7

The latest advices with regard to the typhoon at Hong Kong place a more serious aspect on the disaster than was conveyed by the first reports. It is now…

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Shooting Fatality at Wodonga. Gun Trigger Caught in Wire Fence. Man's Brains Blown Out

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 3

News was received have last night that Mr. G. R. Gooch was found dend in a wire fence at the rear of Foley's Junction Hotel. Near Wodonga. He…

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