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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

194 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 10

Tram Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 3

A man named M'Rady, a resident of Botany, left the tram by the wrong side near Park-street last evening, and falling under another passing tram, the wheels passed over…

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Sad Drowning Natality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 5

Two girls, aged sixteen and eight, daughters of James Boardman, were drowned yesterday in a dam at their fathers residence, near Canowindra…

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Accident on the Line. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 5

A LADY named Mrs. M'Comas, who had only arrived from Melbourne yesterday, fell from a train while in motion at the Petersham railway station…

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Tram Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 3

Mrs. M'Comos, who arrived from Melbourne yesterday, fell from a train at Petersham station last night and fractured her skull. Her condition is critical…

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Sketcher. Drowning

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 October 1899 · page 2

'Drowning is a pleasant death' is a remark constantly made by those who never gulped down salt water into the delicate tissues of their lungs. Twice I have had the…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 October 1899 · page 4

John Percy Nepean, aged 12. whilst endeavouring to paw from one oar of a train to another at Homebusb yesterday, was run over, his body being.horribly…

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Terrible Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 November 1899 · page 2

A terrible accident occurred at Chippendale to-day. A young man named James Lawson had his arm completely torn from his body whilst working…

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A Sad Fatality. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1899 · page 5

YESTERDAY a lad named Leslie East, 18 years of age, son of the Rev. R. East, of Rand wick, while riding in a tram, was struck by the shaft of a…

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The Tram Fatality. Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1899 · page 5

AT the inquest held to-day on the body of young Mr. East, who was killed whilst sitting in a tramcar by the shaft of a passing buggy…

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Fatal Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1899 · page 3

Yesterday Leslie East, aged 11, a son of the Rev. R. East, of Randwick, while riding in a tram was struck in the chest by the shaft of a vehicle, and shortly afterwards died. His…

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Drowned in the Yarra. Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 November 1899 · page 5

YESTERDAY afternoon a man deliberately jumped into the Yarra, in fall view of the busy commercial life around the Melbournes wharves, swam…

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Drowning Fatalities

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 November 1899 · page 4

Two little boys were drowned at Pyramid Hill, Victoria, yesterday, through the capsizing of a flat-bottom boat. A boy and girl named Cranston, aged…

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Accident to a Trooper. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1899 · page 5

SERGT. FARRIER GEORGE HANSON, attached to the Australian Horse, who was to have left Sydney to-day to join the Langton Grange for South Africa,…

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Another Train Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1899 · page 3

A railway guard, name Richard Cosgrove, was knocked down by an engine and killed near Wellington on Saturday…

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A Strange Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 3

Ad old man named John Harris went into his hot-house at Essendon, Victoria, yesterday, and was subsequently found dead, baring been poisoned by the gases…

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TELEGRAMS. Tuesday. Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 3

At the Croydon Consols mine, Golden Gate Queensland, yesterday, two men, named Stephen Ayles and Jerry Close, entered a cage at the mine, and us they…

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The Transvaal War. Bombardment of Ladysmith. British Preparations to Shell Pretoria. Accident to a Transport. the Guildhall Banquet-lord Salisbury's Speech. Hint to the Powers—no Intervention Allowed. Colonel Keith-falconer Killed. Dr. Leyds Nobbles the French Press. Boer Attack on Mafeking. Repulsed with 50 Killed. Capture of a British Convoy. the Siege of Kimberley. the Defence of Durban. Arrival of Troops at Durban. Ladysmith Surrounded by 18,000 BOERS. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 2

The Boers have resumed the bombardment of Ladysmith. The Castle Line steamer Roslin Castle, with Major-General H. J. T. Hildyard and 1100…

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Latest War News. Joubert Killed. Boers Again Repulsed. 100 Killed. Nurses Injured

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 1

The 2nd Battalion of the Irish Fusiliers has arrived at Capetown. The troops will join Major-General Hild-yard's brigade in Natal…

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A Capital by Accident

The Inverell Times · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 8

Nature never intended Berlin for anything but a provincial town. It has been made in to the capital of a great Empire deliberately of malice aforethought. It has, in fact, been…

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Train Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1899 · page 3

At Lake chart station on Saturday, the axle of a crowded train, just stopping, broke. No one was injured…

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