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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Accident on the Rifle Range

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 2

A slight mishap occurred on the range yesterday afternoon while the cadets were practising, when one of the markers (Cadet Lowes) received injuries to the…

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The Stormcock Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 3

The Marine Court inquiry into the collison between the tug Stormcook and a higher on Sept. 3, was concluded to-day, the court finding that the-lighter had not…

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Fall of Colliery Gage One Man Killed; Eleven Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 3

A case, containing a number of miners. fell a distance of 30 feet at the Ferndal Colliery, South Wales, yesterday. One of the unfortunate occupants was…

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Motoring Accident. Machine Dashes Into Canal. Four Occupants Drowned. Vancouver, September 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 21

A deplorable fate has overtaken most of the members of an automobile party at New Orleans, in the United States. The party were returning to the [?]ty…

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Collision in Russia. London, September 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 43

A serious collision between two train's has taken place on the railway at Vladikavkas in the Caucasus, near the Caspian Sea. There is a numerous list of killed and…

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Collision in United States. Six Lives Lost. Vancouver, September 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 43

A disastrous collision has taken place on an electric railroad at Tipton, in Indiana. A train of freight cars and one of passenger cars came into collision. The…

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Railway Accidents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 33

The railway officials investigating, on behalf of the Railway Commissioners, the recent alarming succession of serious accidents are still puzzling over the peculiar…

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How It Happened. Experts' Opinions on the Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 8

Experts do not differ much as to the cause of the accident. One says: "In this case it is impossible to hold either the machine or the aviator entirely…

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Extraordinary Collision. Machines Looked-together Fall 100 Feet

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

A most sensational incident occurred during a flying competition at Milan, when several airmen were contesting for a long, distance prize…

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Sad End to a Pleasure Party One Girl Drowned. a Skiff Upset. Sydney

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

A 22 foot pleasere skifi, coctaining S occunants, was upset this morning by the ropes of the Spit and Middle Harbor bunt Some boys o board the skill and two…

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Wangaratta. Fatal Accident

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

Owing to the untimely and sad death of Mrs. Andrew Byrne. J.P., the Moyhu district has lost one of its oldest and most highly respected pioneers. Mr. Byrne,…

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General Cable News London, Tuesday. an Injured Aviator

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

Captain Bertram Dickson, the British airman, who was seriously injured at the Milan aviation meeting owing to his biplane crashing to earth, interlocked with…

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Shocking Harbor Accident

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

A message received from New York reports the occurrence there of a shocking harbor accident. By some means a crowded barge became swamped, with the result…

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Disastrous Collision

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

A disastrous collision has occurred between an excursion train and a local train on the Illinois traction system near Granite City, Illinois. According to reports to…

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Collision Between Team-car and Dray. Sydney

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

A collsion occurred between a tram-ear and a dray in Elizabeth-street, this afternoon. The dray was upset and its contents, including the driver, thrown…

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Collision at Station

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 30

A goods train was standing at the Tarana platform on Saturday night, when another goods train from Bathurst dashed into it. In a carriage attached to the…

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Fireman Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 35

During the work of extinguishing a bedroom fire at 15 and 17 William-street, Melbourne, on Sunday morning, District-officer Butler was rather seriously hurt by falling…

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Fatal Collision. Millionaire Charged with Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 41

Mr. Edward T. Rosenheimer, a New York millionaire, has been indicted by the grand jury on a charge of committing murder in the first degree by killing a girl…

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General Cable News London, Thursday. Injured Airmen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 3

M. Leon Morane, one of the most famous of French aviators, was aeroplaning with his brother in the vicinity of Saint Cloud, near Paris, when his machine suddenly fell…

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French Railways. Recurring Accidents. Public Alarm. London, September 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 43

The occurrence of one accident after another on the French State railways during the past few months has given rise to considerable public alarm. The result of…

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