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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Blasting Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 6

While John Fahey was tamping down a charge in a hole he had bored in a clayhole at Northcote Brick Worts (Melb.), the blasting powder which formed the…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday, Drowned While Yachting

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 September 1910 · page 3

A young actor named Arthur Edwards, 21 years of age, a member of the [?] troupe, was drowned while yachting in North Harbor yesterday. Edwards, with…

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Accidents at the Races

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 September 1910 · page 2

Mr. M. M'Gregor, rider of Acute Angle in the Amateur Cup at Sandown Park to-day, had his left thigh broken in a fall, and was removed to a private hospital at…

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Accidents to Locomotives

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 September 1910 · page 3

Another derailment on the Warburton (Vie.) line—the fourth in three months—occurred at 6 a.m. on Thursday. While the engine of the early "up" train was…

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Value of an Injured Foot

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 3

In the Jury Court this morning before Mr. Justice Cohen, John Kennedy sued the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company to recover the sum of £500 as…

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French Railway Accident 25 Passengers Injured. an Australian Among the List London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

The express from Dieppe, a French seaport on the English Channel, dashed into the buffers of the Saint Lazare station at Paris, with serious results…

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Fatal Motoring Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

A motor car belonging to Mr. W.T. Appleton, of Malvern, running into the city at 1.15 a.m. on Sunday, struck the rock work edging of a plantation in…

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Accident to a Carter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 3

A carter named Frank Ford, while driving along Castlereagh-street this morning, brought his cart into collision with a tram car near Market-street. Ford was thrown…

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Fatal Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

The lad, Edward Whitty, the victim of last Wednesday [?] ridding accident [?] to his [?] in the Public Hospital at midnight [?] Friday, blood-poisioning…

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General Cable News London, Tuesday. Fatal Motor Car Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 September 1910 · page 5

M. Gutmann, a well known Paris banker, was killed on Monday whilst motoring in the vicinity of Malnn. on the River Seine. He was accompanied by his wife, who was…

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Fatal Sawmill Accident. Forster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 September 1910 · page 6

William Platt, a sawyer, was killed this morning through a piece of wood from a rapidly-revolving circular saw at Porter's sawmill, Tuncurry, crushing his chest…

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Shot and Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 4

At the inquest on Mrs. Goode, the wife of Mr. Thomas Goode, of gordon River, W. A., who was killed last week by a shot from a pea rifle, the evidence showed that…

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Cablegrams. Railway Accidents Rome-vienna Express Smash Seven Killed and 31 Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 2

A disastrous railway accident is reported as the result of a collision on the Rome-Vienna line. The driver of the express from Rome…

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The Box Cart Fatality Tram Driver's Mind Unhinged. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 2

Thomas Patrick Crowe, the driver of the electric [?] which killed little Alec. Morrison, 6 years old, who with two other boys was riding in a four wheeled box…

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Recent French Accidents

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 2

The recurrence of serious disasters on the French State railways is attracting much attention in France, and a feeling of uneasiness has been created among the…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 2

Another fatal motoring accident occured in England yesterday. Mr. Lester Collingwood, a theatre proprietor of Birmingham, was fatally injured in an accident…

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Railway Collisions. Accident at Paris Station. an Australian Injured. London, September 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 42

A serious railway accident occurred yesterday in Paris at the Gare Saint Lazare. The Dieppe express dashed into the station, and collided with the dead end. Twenty…

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Terrible Collision in America 42 Persons Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 2

The remarkable cycle of railway disasters in various parts of the world is further exemplified by intelligence just received…

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Disaster in the Air Aeronaut Seriously Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 2

A serious accident happened at an aviation meeting at Folkestone in Kent. Mr. Barnes, a well-known aeronaut, was manoevoring in mid-air when some mishap…

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Motoring Accidents. Czar and Family in Danger. Two Collisions. London, September 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 42

The Czar of Russia, who is staying at Friedberg Castle, in Germany, whilst the Czarina is receiving health treatment at Nauheim, has undergone an unpleasant…

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