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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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Shocking Fatality in New Zealand

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 30 November 1898 · page 2

A terrible fatality is reported from Wellington, New Zealand. A young married man named Heathcote fell, from a train near Invercargill his…

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Accident at A.m.p. Offices

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 December 1898 · page 2

A [?]old, used in painting the Australian Mutual Provident Society's offices in Pitt-street, collapsed this morning, precipitating six…

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Collision at Melbourne

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 December 1898 · page 4

A coilisioin occurred in the river yarra at Melbourne last night between the steamers Derwent and Nahinsplis, causing great excitsment…

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Senational Accident At Lake Macquaric

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 December 1898 · page 2

A [?] incident occured at Toronto, [?] day morning. The Toronto Estate provides a horse and [?]…

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A Fatal Accident. Death Through a Falling Tree

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1898 · page 2

AN accident, which has been attended by fatal results, occurred on Saturday last. From the evidence adduced at a magisterial inquiry held yesterday, before Corbett Lawson, P.M., it appears…

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Railway Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 4

The body of a man named Dudley, frightfully multituted, has been found on the railway lino near Box Hill, Victoria…

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Fishermen Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 4

A Fishing patty consisting of Percy Thompson, Charles Graham, and Fred Ramsay, at Kempsey, were yesterday afternoon struck by a huge…

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