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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Tragic Drowning Fatality at Como. Three Men Lose Their Lives. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

A terrible drowning fatality took place at Como, George's River, this morning. It appears that four young men named Edwin Ostenfeld (17), Oscar McAlpin…

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Swimming Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

Henry Poulton, residing at Newtown, was swimming with several companions in a waterhole at the Jubilee brickworks at St. Peter's this afternoon when he got out…

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Three Youths Drowned. Sap River Tragedy Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

A dreadful tragedy occurred to-day by which, the lives of three youths were lost by drowning. Oscar Malpure of Summer Hill, Edward…

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Motoring Accident at Deniliquin. Party Thrown From Car

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 6

A serious motor accident occurred on Friday morning at the Barratta Bridge, 28 miles west of Deniliquin. A motor, car, owned and driven by Mr. T.. Dean of…

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Accidents

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

The seven-year-old son of Mr Alfred Ashcroft, a boundary rider on Yanga Station, had the misfortune on Friday last to fall from the limb of a tree, which…

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Fatal Motor Accident Balranald Resident Killed

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

A fatal motor accident happened on Friday morning, shortly after eight o'clock, at the Barratta bridge, about 28 miles from Deniliquin. A car owned…

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Accident to E. F. Waddy. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 3

The Rev. E. F. Waddy, the international cricketer, on Tuesday evening was riding a motor cycle to the Sydney cricket ground to practice. Approaching the ground, his…

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Drowning Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 3

On Sunday evening last, a young man mamed William Charles Knight eldest son of Mr George Knight of "Broadlands" Yalca North, was…

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Motoring Fatality

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

Mr T. H. Dean, who met with a motor accident on the Friday before Xmas, owing to the steering gear fa[?]ling when nearing the…

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Women's Vanity a Safeguard Against Accidents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 15

Street car companies in at least two foreign cities are making a subtle appeal to the vanity of their women patrons in order to lessen the number of accidents…

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Boy Bather Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 5

Charles Carsella, aged 16½ years, was drowned while bathing in the Duck River at Granville. It is supposed that he got out of his depth while bathing…

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Collision Between Tram and Lorry. Street Torn Up. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

An extraordinary accident happened in William street this morning. A tramcar laden with passengers, bound for the city, was travelling down a sleep incline when…

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Barratta Bridge Motor Accident. Death of Mr Dean

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

Mr T. Dean, of Balranald, who had both legs broken in a motor accident at Barratta bridge last week, die d in the Deniliquin Hospital early on Monday morning…

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Disaster to Australian Aeroplane. Aviator Hart and Major Rosenthal Injured. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 2

W. E. Hart, the Australian aviator, met with disaster this morning. He was to have flown from Penrith to Parramatta with Major Rosenthal, his first military…

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A Big Accident at Brocklesby

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 2

was narrowly averted through the strength of material which happened to be in a coat. A resident was bidding a friend good-bye at the train, when the door…

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Electric Railway Accident in Paris. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 2

An electric workmen's train at the Gare du Auterlitz collided with a stationary engine yesterday. Seven carriages were wrecked, and one of them caught fire. In…

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Cruisers in Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 9 January 1912 · page 3

A strong tide at Portsmouth drove the cruiser Revenge against the battleship Orion's port quarter. The Orion was apparently not damaged, but the Revenge…

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Drowned in a Tank

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 January 1912 · page 3

Percy M[?]vitch, aged 20, employed on the Doodlecooma Estate, went for the cows at [?] p.m. one day last week, and not returning about 8 p.m. a search…

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Drowned From a Fishing Boat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 9 January 1912 · page 4

On Saturday afternoon Norman Strack, 17 years, a clerk in the Union Bank at Collingwood, living at Parkville; Stephen Perrott, 20 years, of North Fitzroy, and…

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Collision at Murray Bridge. Horse Killed-- Rider Rendered Unconscious

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 January 1912 · page 3

A collision of a serious character occurred at Murray Bridge on Saturday evening. About 8 o'clock Walter Proud, in the employment of G. Phipps,…

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