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Accidents, 1910

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Cablegrams. White V. Buck Grave Racial Riots Fierce Fighting in America. Hundreds Injured. Many People Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 7 July 1910 · page 2

"What will happen if Johnson wins?" has been the query propounded for months past wherever in the United States racial feeling runs high…

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General Cable News London, Wednesday. Mines Accident Bill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 7 July 1910 · page 3

The Mines Accident Bill was read a second time in the Horse of Commons. The necessity of obtaining evidence from Australia and South Africa had delayed…

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Rheims Aviation Meeting. Deplorable Fatality. London, July 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 43

Another important aviation meeting is taking place at Rheims, in France. Its success has been interfered with, however, by bad weather, rain and wind prevailing…

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Unlucky Shot. Explosion of Gunpowder. Montana Fatality. London, July 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 43

During revolver practice at Boulder Valley, a village near Butte, Montana, a bullet penetrated the wall of a building, in which a quantity of gunpowder was…

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The Malwa in Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 5

The R.M.S. Malwa came into collision with the British steamer Nairn near Colombo yesterday. The impact was not a serious one though the Malwa was…

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Lady Aviator Mortally Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 July 1910 · page 2

The Baroness Delaroche was aeroplaning near Rheims when the. machine suddenly collapsed and fell from a height of 50 metres…

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Fatality at Ghent

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 2

Mr. Daniel Kinet, a British bird-man, while flying in an aeroplane at Ghent, fell to the earth a distance of 300 feet, and died from his injuries…

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Beechworth Skin Buyer Drowned. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 3

The body of a man. which was taken from the Yarra yesterday afternoon by Constable Reardon, of the South. Wharf police station. was identified to-day at…

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An Injured Aviator

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 2

The report that M. Daniel Kinet had succumbed to terrible injuries incurred in a fall from a height of 300 feet, while aeroplaning at Ghent, was not correct…

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Treble Boating Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 14 July 1910 · page 2

Advices from Cairo state that seventeen soldiers belonging to the King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment, the first battalion of which is quartered in Egypt,…

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Cablegrams. Dreadful Flying Accident Tragic Death of Mr Rolls Biplane Smashed to Fragments. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 14 July 1910 · page 2

The regrettable accident at the Bournemouth Aviation meeting involving the death of the Hon. C. S. Rolls, has created a sensation. From the details now…

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The Malwa Damaged. Collision at Colombo. London, July 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 45

The P. and O. R.M.S. Malwa, on her homeward trip from Australia (Melbourne, June 21), has been slightly damaged, near Colombo, through coming into collision…

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Duke of Westminster. Nearly Drowned Off Cowes. Hydroplane Capsized. London, July 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 43

The Duke of Westminster had an exciting experience, which nearly cost him his life, when out in a hydroplane at Cowes, Isle of Wight…

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Fatal Riding Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 35

A lamentable accident, resulting in the death of the chief inspector of factories of Victoria, Mr. Harrison Ord, occurred on Sunday morning at the corner of…

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Workman's Nerves. Upset by Fatal Accident. Compensation Granted. London, July 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 43

An interesting claim under the Workmen's Compensation Act was decided yesterday by the Court of Appeal. A collier of Pontefract claimed the benefits of the…

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Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 2

Mrs J. Houghton met with a very pain[?]l accident on Saturday afternoon last. It appears that she had occasion to go from the bar into a…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 2

A report has reached Quebec to the effect that, a serious accident has happened to a train on the Canada Northern system. Six hundred Bristol immigrants…

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Cablegrams. Aviation Another Fusing Accident. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 5

An aviator rained Rawlinson, while taking part in the Bo[?]mnemouth Carnival yesterday, fell to the ground, breaking his ankle and dislocating his shoulder…

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Peculiar Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 July 1910 · page 3

Two youths, Harold Cameron, aged 15, and Harry Filsell, 16, were kicking a football about in the upper training-room of the Petersham Football Club, at Stanmore,…

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Railway Disaster Near Melbourne. Collision of Two Trains Nine Persons Killed Seventy-nine Injured. Heartrending Scenes. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 2

A dreadful railway disaster happened about 9 o'clock this morning at the Richmond station, when during a dense fog the engine of the 8.37 Elsternwick express…

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