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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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Motor Car Leaps Into River. Three Occupants Drowned Well-known Lady a Victim

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred a few miles outside of Muswellbrook last week, when a motor car ran over the bank of the river, and three of the…

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Tramway Men Strike at Cairo. Police Use Sabres Relentlessly Thirty People Injured. Cairo

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 2

A strike of tramway men occurred here which led to serious riots. The police relentlessly sabred the rioters. who replied with showers of stones, and…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1911 · page 32

The explosion of a bursting motor tyre and the crash and splintering noise of a terrific collision brought the police at Royal Park station on Friday night with a rush…

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Horrible Burning Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 August 1911 · page 5

A shocking burning fatality occurred at Newman's Gully, near near Tambaroora. On Tuesday morning the coroner at Hill End, received word that the body of an old age…

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One Hundred Strikers Injured. Des Mouses (Iowa)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 August 1911 · page 2

A hundred strike breakers were injured during riots which arose through the tramway men's strike here…

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Burning Accident Sad Plight of Two Sisters

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 2

Two sisters named Annie and Magdaline Devine. Aged 20 and 11 years respectively, were badly burned at Bowna, yesterday morning, and are now in the Albury…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 2

On Sunday morning a little daughter of Mr. H. Stadham's, of Showground Hill received painful injuries through the index finger of the right hand being…

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Ballooning Fatality. Lieutenant Killed. Batavia

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 2

Lieutenants Rambaldo and Strin made baya, Java, yesterday. Lieutenants Rambaldo and Etri[?] made an ascent in a balloon, but they had net…

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Bowna Burning Accident Death of Miss Magdaline Devine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 2

The burning accident at Bowna on Monday morning, when, as reported in yesterday's issue of the "Border Morning Mail," two sisters, named Annie and Magdaline…

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One Hundred Drowned Asleep a Nile Steamer Sinks. Cairo

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 3

A few additional particulars have been received here regarding the foundering of a steamer, crowded with native passengers, 106 of whom were drowned, which occurred…

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Boiler Explosion. Two Killed; Many Injured. Rotterdam

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 August 1911 · page 2

A serious shipping mishap has occurred here. A boiler on the steamer Gutenberg exploded, causing the vessel to sink. Two of the crew were killed outright…

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Perils of the Sea French Steadier Founders. Nearly 100 Persons Drowned. Gibraltar

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 August 1911 · page 2

A terrible shipping disaster has occurred near Tarifa, a maritime town in the South of Spain, and 15 miles south-west of Gibraltar…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 August 1911 · page 2

A fatal burning accident occurred at Bowna, near Albury, on Monday. Maggie Devine, aged 11 years, daughter of Mr. Edward Devine, farmer, of Crow's…

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Awful Motor Accident Collision in a Gorge

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 5

Two motor cars containing sightseers met on Thursday at a sharp turn, of the narrow road which leads up the Manawatu Gorge (N.Z.). The cars were wrecked and…

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The Denman Motor Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 4

The jury empa[?]elled to inquire into the circumstances of the motor fatality at Denman. viewed the scene, and on returning deliberated for two hours, with the result…

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Parkville Motor Fatality the Driver Takes Some Liquor

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 4

The circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. John Fisher. jun., who died from injuries received through a collision of the motor car which he was driving with a…

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Another Motor Fatality Elderly Cyclist Killed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 4

Mr. Edwin Chancellor, a member of the firm of Chancellor and Son. wholesale grocers, of North Melbourne, died at his residence, South road, Brighton Beach on…

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Railway Station As Field Hospital Police Superintendent Critically Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 2

Over 150 civilians and 40 police were treated, at the hospitals after they had received first aid at the railway station, which was converted into a field hospital…

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The Industrial Troubles of England. Grave Situation at Manchester. Serious Riot at Liverpool. A Large Number of Persons Injured. Discontent amongst Railway Workers. London

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 2

The week's strike in London cost about £1,500,000. The situation at Manchester created by the industrial war is extremely grave. 8000…

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General Gable News Twelve People Drowned. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 5

A sad disaster occurred at the new river bathing place of Rodenkirchen, a village stated on tin Rhine, seme five, miles of Cologne. Twelve persons were…

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