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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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Fearful Accident at Quirindi Balcony O[?] an Hot[?] Colla[?] 150 People Fa[?] the Ground with It. Many Serious Injuries Sustained. Quirindi, Friday. (By Wire.)

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1901 · page 2

During the presentation of prizes in connection with the polo carnival at Quirindi, on Thursday night, an a[?]e dent of an appalling nature…

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A Strange Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1901 · page 4

A serious accident occurred, to the wife of Mr. William M'Cutcheon, farmer of Cave Creek, near Orange. She was standing near a chaff-cutter…

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Terrible Accident at Quirindi

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1901 · page 2

MR. E. B. HAWKE, (well-known locally), traveller for Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, writing to his brother, Mr. W. J. Hawke of Armidale, gives a brief account of the thrilling occurrence at…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 14 August 1901 · page 2

Readers of the TIMES will remember that on Thursday, 1st August, May White, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. White was severely burned about the body as the…

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Fatality at Sea. PERTH

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 5

THE captain of the American ship James Drummond, which has arrived from British Columbia, states that during the voyage the mate threatened to shoot him…

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The Late Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 3

THE GAZETTE SAYS:—We are glad to hear that Mrs. Gordon H. Dight has almost completely recovered from the severe shock she received…

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A Revolver Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 2

A somewhat sensational accident occurred on Wednesday morning at South Grafton. Arthur [?]Kittrick, son of the proprietor of the City Stores, was trying a revolver, when he accidentally shot…

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Mining Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 2

A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred on Tuesday night in the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, resulting in the death of one man and serious injury to two others John Harvey Thomas, Charles Clusky,…

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The Quirindi Disaster. Removing the Debri[?]. How the Accident Happened

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 August 1901 · page 2

When the debris was cleared away after the recent accident at Qujrindi, one part of the Imperial Hotel balcony was found to be supported by…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. an Awful Mistake

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 24 August 1901 · page 4

While two brothers named William and Godfrey Scott, aged 15 and 13, were out shooting near Bunbury (West Australia), one mistook the…

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Floods in China. Thousands Drowned. Shanghai, August 23

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 27 August 1901 · page 2

LATEST particulars to hand show that the floods have occurred over a wide area of China. In Manchuria, to the North, hundreds…

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Serious Accident

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 27 August 1901 · page 2

Two men named William Rawlings and James Allerton were in the lift at Hoffmann's stores to-day, when the rope broks, and the cage was precipitated to…

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Lucky Accidents

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 27 August 1901 · page 1

A lady, who, with her children,had intended journeying to the Channel. Islands by the ill-fated Stella, slipped as she was entering the cab that was to…

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Shooting Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 4

A terrible shooting fatality occurred near Singleton last night. John Yates was out opossum shooting with a young fellow named Heaton, and…

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Bailway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 4

A railway accident occurred tins morning near the Redfern tunnel. A train with empty carriages was proceeding to Rockdale, and when…

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Result of a Team Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 4

The jury in the ease of Woollams. v. the Railway Commissioners, awarded plaintiff a verdict of. £850 for injuries received in a tram accident…

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Two Men Drowned

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

A boat from the waraship Archer capsized in Wellington Harbour last night, and two of the boat's crow, T. Hibbett and Frederick Siminett were drowned,…

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Dreadful Burning Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

AN accident occurred at the Gulr Creek Copper Mine, near Barraba, on Wednesday week last, when W. Dyson, Fred. Tempest, miners, and a boy named Seymour Johns,…

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Terrible Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident has occurred at the Lyndhurst Goldfield Company's Junction battery. A man named Richard O'Grady, aged 23 years, was starting the…

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Shocking Fatality. Man Shot Dead by His Companion

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 2

A shocking fatality occurred near Broke, near Singleton, on Monday evening, when a young man named John Albert Yates was shot by his…

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