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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 November 1910 · page 2

Mr. Phil. Wittmer, licenses of the Great Southern Hotel, Rutherglen, and late of Corowa, was the victim of a painful accident in his bar on Saturday last,…

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Naval Officers Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 November 1910 · page 2

Two lives were Jost in an accident which occurred in Weymouth Harbor yesterday. A boat belonging to the first-class torpedo gunboat Gossamer was upset in a…

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News From America Vancouver, Tuesday. Terrible Mixing Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 November 1910 · page 2

A terrible mining tragedy is reported from the United States. An explosion occurred at the Black Diamond Mine near Seattle. Sixteen miners, who were…

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Desperate Fighting. Hundreds of Rioters Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 10 November 1910 · page 2

The correspondent of "The Times" at Tonypandy reports: Despite assurance from the stipendiary magistrate that no imported labor would be employed, the mob…

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General Cable News Railway Collision in Italy. Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 2

A serious railway accident has occurred near Pavia, a city in Lombardy, Italy. An express train and goods train collided. Two ladies were killed outright, two…

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Huge-ship Ashore. Wreck Follows Collision. Gallant Attempts at Rescue. London, November 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 7

The mail steamer Brighton, bound from Newhaven for Dieppe, was seriously damaged yesterday in a collision with the five-masted steel ship Preussen, 5081 tons…

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A Simple Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 21

The friends of Mr. James Colquhoun will regret to learn that he met with a painful accident on Monday evening. He had turned his horse out into a paddock…

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Accident at Wahgunyah School

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon, while playing in the shed at the Wahgunyah School, Doris Pearce, a little girl of 8 years, had the misfortune to break her arm. Mr…

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Bicycle Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 2

While Mr. H. Grimmond, of the Rutherglen post office staff was out cycling on Sunday, the fork of his bicycle collapsed and the rider sustained a severe…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 2

Master Donald Swan, one of the school, cadets, was the victim of an accident of a somewhat simple nature on Wednesday, during drill, which resulted in a broken…

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A Series of Accidents

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 November 1910 · page 3

A fines of accident has occurred at Stawell curing the past few days. On Thursday morning John Maddocks, a driver in the employ of Permewan, Wright and…

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Some Terrible Railway Accidents

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 November 1910 · page 4

Literally staggering in their dramatic features as well as in their actual results have some railway accidents been. If the reader were…

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Fatal Collision at Kalamazoo. Six Dead.—twenty-six Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 November 1910 · page 2

A serious collision occurred at Kalamazoo, in the State of Michigan. A street car when crossing the railway line was run into by a west-bound express train…

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Horrors of Sydney Little Boy Drowned at Play. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 November 1910 · page 2

A little boy named Edward Holden Tucker, who resided with his parents at Balmain was last seen alive when playing with a playmate named Reginald Croft…

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Three Year Old Hero Drowned in Trying to Sate His Sister

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 November 1910 · page 3

Two children, aged three and four brother and sister, were drowned in a millpond at Bristol the boy having made an unsuccessful attempt to save the girl…

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Unavailing Sacrifice. Double Drowning Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 30

A doble drowning fatality occurred at Cecil Plain Station, Queensland, on Sunday afternoon in a lagoon near the sheep shed. A lad named Roser, aged 15 years…

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Tricycle and Train. Fatal Collision

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 43

Robert Arbuckle, the manager of the Pelaw Main Colliery, Kurri Kurri, was killed on Saturday morning at Blue Gum. A coal train had stopped there on Messrs…

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Railway Collision. Four Passengers Killed. Rome, November 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 41

A collision between an express and a goods train occurred yesterday. near Pavia. Two ladies were killed outright, two other passengers received fatal injuries, and…

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Cable News. Riots in South Wales. Miners Fight with Police Hundreds Injured. Military Called Out. London, Nevember 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 41

A dangerous crisis has been reached in "Glamorganshire, where thousands of miners, who are on strike, have resorted to violence to gain their ends. Riots occurred…

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Accident at Masonic Function Moe

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 3

A brother of Mr. A. W. Purvis, store-keeper, met with a very painful accident last night when present at a Masonic banquet at local lodge. One of the…

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