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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Cork for Poison Bottles. An Ingenious Device to Prevent Accident In Handling Drugs

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 6

Many clever devices have been patented to minimize the risk of accidental poisoning, but either owing to the difficulties of placing the invention…

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Injuries in a Railway Accident. £1150 Damages Awarded

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 5

John Beilby Smith, a dentist, who sued the N.S.W. Railway Commissioners for the recovery of £2000 damages for injuries sustained in the Werris…

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The Disturbance in Rome General Strike Declared. Arrest of Labor Leaders. Twenty One Policemen Injured London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 April 1908 · page 2

The serious rioting that took place i Rome on Friday i connection wit the funeral of a working man, which resulted in the police firing on the procession,…

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Racehorse Killed. Rider Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 April 1908 · page 6

While being Schooled over the [?] at Randwick this morning the racehorse Rotyshi blundered badly and fell, breaking its neck. The rider, Arthur Ryan,…

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Accident to the S.s.s Waipara

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 April 1908 · page 2

The s.s. Walpara, 5550 tons, of the Federal-Houlder-Shire line, which left Melbourne on the 6th ultimo bound for South Africa and London, was delayed at Port…

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Motor Car Accident. a Bellringer Killed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 April 1908 · page 3

The body of a young man who won knocked down and fatally injured by motor car on Monday night last has been identified as that of John…

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A Football Crowd. Upwards of 130,000. Forty People Injured. London, April 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 23

The association football match. England v. Scotland, played in Glasgow on Saturday, afforded a record in regard to attendance. The ground was not big enough to hold the…

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Railway Accident Near Junee

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 33

At about 9.30 on Thursday night, 2nd inst., an accident occurred about four miles from June station on a down grade running into Harefield. A stock special leaving Junee a…

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Suicide or Accident ? a Singular Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 46

What is regarded as a ease of suicide occurred at Berry, a South Coast district, on Monday night. A swagman named Thomas Roberts went to the residence of Mr. James…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 7

A peculiar accident happened on Sunday last to a six-year-old son of Mr. Arkins, school teacher at South Corowa, in company with an older…

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Accident to a Parliamentary Special Train. with Only Two Passengers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 11 April 1908 · page 5

About one o'clock this morning an accident happened to a special Parliamentary train on the Illawarra line, at a spot about three miles from Redfern station, near…

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Accident Results Fatally

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 April 1908 · page 2

A telegram was received from Wagga on Wednesday announcing the death of “Mally” Glennon, a young man well-known in the Deniliquin district…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Dreadful Railway Accident. Woman Falls Between Train and Platform

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 13 April 1908 · page 3

A middle-aged woman named Connie Riley met with a horrible accident at the Sydney railway station yesterday evening. She attempted to board a…

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Treating the Apparently Drowned. New System of Resuscitation

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 14 April 1908 · page 3

Recent English files contain the important announcement that the Royal Llfe Saving Society has decided to abandon the method it has so long…

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Floods in China. Two Thousand Persons Drowned. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 April 1908 · page 2

Enormous floods have swept down the Hanking river in China. The floods have inundated a wide area, and 2000 Chinese have been drowned in…

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Drowning of a Waterman

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 April 1908 · page 3

The body of the waterman named Jan Mooren, who was drowned on Friday last as the result of a collision between his boat and a…

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Accident at Central Railway Station

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 April 1908 · page 3

The woman Connie Riley, who was injured by a train at Central Railway station on Saturday evening died in the hospital to-day…

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Boating Fatality. an Aboriginal Drowned

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1908 · page 7

A well-known district identity, in the person of an aboriginal named Martin Simpson, is supposed to have met his doom in a boating accident…

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Sensational Railway Accident. a Good Friday Collision Between Brisbane and Glen Innes Mail Trains. Twenty Persons Injured Murrundi Hospital Crowded with Injured. the Staff Overtaxed. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 5

A railway collision of a most sensational nature occurred at the railway station at Murrundi, a town 217 miles north of Sydney, at an early…

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Railway Smash. at Murrun[?] Two Trains Collide. Both Heavily Laden. Twenty Persons Injured. Sydney

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 2

Early this morning a big railway smash occurred Murru[?] the [?] Innes train from Sydney colliding with terrific force with the Brisbane until…

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