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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Accident to Burns

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1908 · page 23

Tommy Burns while hunting at Mount Kosciusko on Friday week met with a nasty though not serious misadventure. His horse, in jumping a fence, came down heavily and…

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Tram Collision

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 2

Two trams collided during a fog at Philadelphia. Seven passengers were killed and 72 maimed…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Friday. a Ballarat Double Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 5

At the Ballart City Court to-day the Coroner (Mr. P. Cohen) held an inquent on the bodics of Willam Mnson, mine manager, and Jamch Collins, miner, who…

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Pea-rife Fatality.—father Shoots His Son

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 2

A tragia occurrence look place near Carvoe (Vic.) on Thursday, when Oharlos Westinke was accidentally shot by his inther, Charles Westlako, a hairdresser…

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Earthquake at Sea. Steamer's Extraordinary Experience. Four Men Killed—two Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 September 1908 · page 2

An extraordinary salality at son is reported by the steamer Redames as having occurred while on a voyage from Sun Franoisce to Hamburg…

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Electric Railway Accident. on an Elevated Road. Thirty Person Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 September 1908 · page 2

An extraordinary accident has occurred at a junction on the electric elevated railway which runs through the city of Berlin…

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A Planter's Estate. Testator Supposed to Be Drowned. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 September 1908 · page 2

His Honor Mr. Justion Street to-day granted probate of the will of Felix [?] late of west[?] hour Parra[?] who is thought to be dead…

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Serious Accident at Goomargama

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 September 1908 · page 3

MR. JOHN DORMAN INJURED. Mr. John Dorman of [?] who has well known in Albury met with a [?] accident at Gooman[?] on Sunday. Mr. Dorman was about to…

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"The Wallabies," Australian Ruchiyttes in London. Accident to E. U. Burge London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 September 1908 · page 3

The members of the Australian Rugby football team, who was their match on Saturday by defeating Divon, have arrived in London, They are all looking…

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Drowned in the Billabong

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 5

On Monday morning last a man named Thomas McKinnon reported to Constable Morrissey that a mate of his a man known as "Tommy the…

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The Channel Collision. Sensational Happenings

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

PASSENGERS IN THREE STEAMERS. Further particulars are now available respecting the reusational collision in the English Channel on Tuesday…

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Injured Australian Player. London, September 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 23

The "Sportsman" says that P. H. Burge, one of the forwards in the Australasian Rugby football team, who was injured in the match. against a Devon team on Saturday…

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Collision in a Snowstorm. Nineteen Killed. London, September 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 42

Reuter's correspondent at Helena, the capital of Montana, U.S.A., a town close to the Rocky Mountains, reports the occurrence of a disastrous railway collision…

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Ten Thousand Drowned. by the Must Floods. Terrible Catastrophe at Hyderabad. London

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

Fearful loss of life, far greater than was at first reported, attended the flooding of Must fiver, on which in situated the town of Hyderabad, the capital of the native…

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Cablegrams. Collisions at Sea. a Turkish Catastrophe. Laden Ferry Steamer Sinks. in Persons Drowned. London

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

A lengthed calamity occurred yesterday just outside the harbor of Smyran, the capital of Turkey-in-Asia. A large Turkish steamer collided with…

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Accident in Cressy-street. MR. T. Pollard Seriously Injured

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 2

A very serious accident happened on Wednesday afternoon in Cressy-street, opposite the residence of. Mr D. J. Lawson, as the result of which Mr Tom…

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Cablegrams. 50,000 Natives Drowned. in the Hyderabad Floods

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 October 1908 · page 2

A special correspondent has described in horrible terms the situation in the Hyderabad district of India [?] by the flooding of the Must river…

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Ferry Steamer Sunk. 140 DROWNED. London. October 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 October 1908 · page 43

Terrible loss of life has occurred through a steamer collision outside Smyrna, in Asia Minor. A Turkish steamer ran into a ferry steamer, which sank, 140 of her…

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Exciting Buggy Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 October 1908 · page 44

A sensational buggy accident occurred at Garra, near Molong. At the conclusion ot a concert, Mr. Missionary Waterhouse, Miss Annie Packhaih, Master…

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Dreadful Fatality—acetylene Gas Explosion

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 2

A boy, named Henry Toxer, 13, an orphan, and a ward of the State, who lived in the care of Mrs. Smith, of Lone-street, Coburg, was on Thursday the victim of…

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