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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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Harbour Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 4

The Harbour steamer "Guthrey" collided with the ketch "Day Dawn" last night. The latter "which was much damaged was beached to…

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Collision at Sea

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 4

A collision occurred off the Heads last night between the steamer "Dovedale" and the barque "Silver Cloud." The latter was considerably damaged…

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A Steamer Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 4

The German steamer "Chemnity" from Sydney collided with the steamer "Tay" at Flushing. The latter sank and thirteen persons were drowned…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Shooting Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 5

While out with a party duck shooting in the Mudgee district yesterday T. C. Campbell was accidentally shot dead…

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Drowned while Holiday- making

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

A YOUNG man, Frederick Gissing, of Charlotte- street, Ashfield, was drowned in the Warragamba River on Friday about 1 o'clock. Gissing was one of a party of five who went up in one of Bennett's…

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Burning Fatality. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

THE Prince of Wales Hotel at Nowra was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. William Henry Wilford. aged 65, and Benjamin Wilford, his son, aged…

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Peculiar Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

A few days ago Mrs. W. Imber, of the Inverness Hotel, Burrundulla, met with a peculiar accident. She was at dinner, when four false teeth,…

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Der German Cobbler. He Witnesses an Accident and Gets Ints a Whole Lot of Trouble on Account ol His Innocence

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 5

" Dot's how I villus when I vhas a fool," said the German cobbler as he shaved away at a piece of sole leather meant for a lift on a sole leather meant for a lift on a shoe heel. "I goes…

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Railway Fatality. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 5

ABOUT six o'clock this morning a shunter found the body of Richard Walker lying between the rails of the railway line a short distance from the…

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Milling Accident. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 5

THE Australians and New Zealanders, who are scouting with General Plumer, are occupied in a very difficult task at Chunespoort Pass…

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Double Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 4

Alexander Robinson, hotel licensee near Broken Hill, and his son, aged 13, were both drowned yesterday at Kennedy's dam, owing to the horse…

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Sad arid Fatal Accident

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1901 · page 2

IT was with feelings of unf[?]igned regret that the news was received in town on Saturday morning of the death of Mr. Vincent Pierce, the only surviving son…

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Peculiar Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1901 · page 3

A few days ago Mrs. W. Imber, of the Inverness Hotel, Burrundulla, met with a peculiar accident. She was at dinner, when four false teeth, attached…

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Sewer Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 5

During excavations by the Water and Sewerage men at Randwick this morning a trench suddenly collapsed, two men named George Kemp and…

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Sad and Fatal Accident

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 2

INTELEGENCE was received in town on Wednesday evening of a sad accident which took place that afternoon at Sandy Flat by which a young man named Frank Ayre,…

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Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 4

A passenger train on the Southport Railway Queensland ran into a truck loaded with firewood. The passengers escaped injury but the…

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Shooting Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

A DISTRESSING Shooting accident occurred at Armidale on Monday evening, by which Edward Schmutter, aged about 19 years, son of Mr. Philip Schmutter, the esteemed manager of the local…

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Railway Accident. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 5

THE train left the line near Lockhard yesterday. It tore up forty yards of the permanent way. The passengers all escaped unhurt. The train was…

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A Strange Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

WHILE an inmate of the Benevolent Asylum, Castlemaine, a man named Charles Gould, 83 years of age, was walking from the men's day-room to the main building, the exceptionally wind that…

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Train Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 3

A train left the line near Lockhard yesterday, tearing op 40 yards of permanent way. There were 20 passengers, but all escaped unhurt. The train was only travelling 10 miles an hour,…

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