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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Workman Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 3

An accident befell Eroch Turner, 62 years of age, a resident of Footseray, early this morning. He was at work in the coal yard at Spencer-street railway station…

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Fatal Railway Collision New York Banker Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

Mr. Spencer Trask, a well-known New York banker, has been killed in a railway collision at Croton, 36 miles north of New York…

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Suffragette Exploits More Acid-throwing. a Clerk Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

An incident is reported in connection with the canvass by Mr. Burns which is reminiscent of a similar occurrence at Bermondsey two months ago, when an…

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Cablegrams. Two Shipwrecks. Collision Off Tuscar Rock a Steamer Founders. the Twelve Foolish Lascars. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

A terribly sudden shipwreck occurred during a dense fog yesterday on the Tuscar Rock, which is 7 miles N.E. of Cornsore Point, Country Wexford, and has a…

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Shipping Disaster. the Irish Channel Collision. Ayrshire Badly Damaged. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 2

The collision which occurred on Sunday between the Ellerman liner Arcadian, 2353 tons, and the Federal-Houlder-Shire liner Ayrshire, 7749 tons, was disastrous to both…

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General Cable News London, Wednesday. Ice Accidents in Berlin. Twelve Persons Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 3

New Year's Festival in Berlin was responsible for a heavy crop of accidents on the ice. Twelve persons met their deaths in the manner…

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An Aviation Tragedy Fatal Accident at Bordeaux. M. Delagrange Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 2

Reuter's Agency has received a brief intimation of a fatal accident to M. Delagrange, one of the pioneers of aviation. He was aeroplaning at Bordeaux, in a Bleriot…

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Serious Accident at Thurgoona Crushed Beneath a Falling Limb

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 2

An accident under extraordinary circumstances happened to Mr. Rhynehart Schmidt, yesterday at Thurgoona, when a large limb of a gum-tree fell on him. As…

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Benalla Burning Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 33

The shocking accident which occurred at the residence of Edgar J. Hooper, at Benalla, on Tuesday, has resulted in the death of the three children. Mrs. Hooper was…

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Fatal Accident at a Tank. a Youth Drowned

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 2

Yesterday evening the Hay police received telephonic advice of a drowning accident which had taken place on Gladstone, the property of Mr Thorpe, by…

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Collision in a Fog. Disaster in the Irish Sea. London, January 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 42

The steamer Arcadian, 2683 tons net register, of the Ellerman Lines Limited, was lost yesterday in a collision in St. George's Channel, and 12 of her Lascar…

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Serious Accident at Thurgoona

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 21

Mr. Rhynehart Schmidt, a well-known district farmer, was brought into the Albury Hospital on Wednesday, as the resuit of a somewhat peculiar accident at…

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Shooting Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 5

A fatal accident befel a young man named L. Stewart, aged 23, (employed at the Great Southern, Rutherglen) aneph[?]w of Cr. Bruce, farmer of Burramine, on…

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Firemen Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 January 1910 · page 3

A fire which c[?]d at No. 663 Sydney-road, [?] on Thursday, was attended with se[?]s results to three fire man. In order to [?] the upper story…

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Fearful Railway Accident Man Torn to Pieces. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

A terrible accident occurred at the Central Railway Yards this morning by which a railway laborer named George Mullens, 35 years of age, lost his life…

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Drowning Fatality. Inquest at Coree

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 5

On Sunday morning last, word was brought into town that the dead body of a man named John Moncrieff had been found that morning floating…

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Artillery Sensation Premature Explosion of a Shell at Point Nepean Fort. Thirteen Men Injured. Queenscliff

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 2

The operations at Point Nepean to-day in connection with the visit of Lord Kitchener were marred, by a most sensational accident, which narrowly escaped being a…

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Fireman Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 3

Frederick Pemberton aged 30 one of the Metropolitan Firemen, attached to the head station at Eastern Hill, was driving a two horse waggon, Laden with straw, along…

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Serious Buggy Accident. Kilmore

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 3

A serious accident occurred at Kilmore East yesterday, Cr. F. Wortley, resident of the shire of Kilmore, Mr. Peter O'Connor, and Mr. Matthew Ryan, were driving…

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Bupied Under Coal. an Extraordinary Fatality Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 3

At two o' clock this morning a donkey man noticed a free laborer named Thomas Heaver, who was assisting to load the…

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