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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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Fatal Waggon Accident. Adelaide

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 5

Two brothers, named Maroney, aged nine and seven years respectively, while riding under a four-horse waggon to-day, and when attempting to get from under the…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 4

Two men (John Nicholls and John M'Laughlin) were hilled, and seven others seriously injured yesterday, by a fall of earth at the Cobar gold mine…

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Terrible Mining Accident. SYDNEY, September 27

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1900 · page 2

Shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon a terrible accident occurred at the Cobar Gold Mine, by which two men were killed and five injured. The men, it is stated,…

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Fatal Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 5

James Turner, stoker on board the cruiser "Kawakalla," was knocked down by a train last night, and died In the hospital to-day…

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Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 5

Two trucks loaded with wool and chaff, were hurled over an incline on the top of the Zig-Zag on Saturday night. Very little damage was done to…

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Drowned in the Harbor

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 4

At an early Lour this morning the dead body of a young woman was found floating in the Harbor at Glebe Point. A slip of paper was found in…

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Injured on the Line. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1900 · page 5

JAMES STUART, a railway guard, was seriously injured this morning while endeavouring to board a moving train at Redfern station…

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A Girl Accidentally Shot

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1900 · page 2

THE Parramatta district coroner (Mr. T. E. MacNevin) held a magisterial inquiry on Monday regarding the death of a girl named Alice Bell, 13…

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Fatal Accident

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 24 October 1900 · page 5
Also in The Armidale Chronicle

On Saturday afternoon a general feeling of regret was expressed in town when it became known that Mr. R Stacey, of Bannockburn, had been thrown out of his spring cart and…

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Fatal Tramway Accident. DUNEDIN, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1900 · page 5

A SERIOUS tramway accident has taken place in Dunedin, resulting in the death of a Chinaman and the serious injury of eight other persons…

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Accidentally Shot. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 November 1900 · page 5

A BOY named E. Higgins, aged 12, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen with a pistol, at Balmain, yesterday. The bullet cannot be traced, and the boy now lies…

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Terrible Mine Accident. MELBOURNE, November 5

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 9 November 1900 · page 2

An explosion occurred on Saturday afternoon at the crushing battery owned by the Unity and Carlisle, North Garden Gully, and Pass by companies at Bendigo,…

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Fatal Biding Accident, MELBOURNE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1900 · page 5

MR. JOHN WATTS, of Gravel Plains Station, a well-known breeder of thoroughbreds, was thrown by a young horse on Saturday last, and instantly…

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The Fatal Tram Accident. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1900 · page 5

AT the inquest on the body of Miss Carruthers, who was killed by a tram on Saturday, the evidence showed that deceased was subject to fits, and that…

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Fatal Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1900 · page 3

Miss Augusta Carruthers, aged 23, residing in York-street, Redfern, was knocked down by a steam tram on Saturday night and killed…

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A Diver Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 November 1900 · page 4

A diver named John Roderick, employed at Mort's Dock, was drowned while at work, the air pipe getting jammed…

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Drowned Whilst Bathing. Gundy, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1900 · page 5

WILLIAM LIANG, a public school teacher at Gundy, was drowned last night whilst bathing…

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Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 November 1900 · page 3

The body of a man, said to be Patrick Reddan, was found in the water at the foot of Bathurst-street this morning…

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Found Drowned. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 November 1900 · page 5

THE body of a man said to be that of Patrick Reddan, was found in the water at the foot of Bathurst-street this morning…

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