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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

232 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 12

A Terrible Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 7

A shocking accident, attended with fatal results, occurred, on Wednesday morning at a bedding factory in Collins-street, Surrey Hills…

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An Unfortunate Accident. Committed for Trial

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 4

Captain M'Gilvray has been committed for trial at Invercargill, New Zealand, upon a charge of killing a woman by unlawfully firing a signal…

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Double Burning Fatality

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 2

The clothes of a woman named Flora Morrison caught fire at East Melbourne during the explosion of a lamp, when another woman named Alma Steel went…

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Is Genius an Accident?

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 6

Are first sons more likely to be great than second or third sons? It is the question of heredity over again, but it has been dealt with lately in an interesting way by an expert…

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Awful Collision a Train Runs Away

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 3

A frightful railway accident occurred on Saturday, in the State of Montana (U.S.A.), While a heavy train was proceeding up a steep…

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Railway Fatality

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 2

Cecil Dove, a ship's steward, was killed on the railway line At Milson's Point. Both his legs were cut off…

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Ways of Living. Accidents That Sink Ships

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 1

THERE is quite an element of comedy, said a member of Lloyd's, in some of the accidents which send ships to the…

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A Shooting Accident. KATOOMBA, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1901 · page 5

Two lads, named Duff and Sheards, were on a shooting expedition at Katoomba. Duff's rifle accidentally went off,…

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Tram Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 5

A child named Amy Chatwin, whilst going-to school this morning, was run over by a Camperdown tram, death being almost instantaneous…

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Railway Accident. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 5

THE mutilated body of a middle-aged man, so far unidentified, was found on the railway line at Eveleigh last night. It is believed that he had been…

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Railway Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 5

A man named James Connolly was run over by a train near Blaxland. His head was found two miles away, and human flesh from the lower…

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Shooting Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 2

Mr. F. Pearce was brought to town on Thursday with a bullet in his leg. He was shooting at Cobborn Creek, Woolbrook, when by some means a…

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Terrible Railway Collision

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

Two trains collided in Roumania, with the result that the cars telescoped. 38 passengers were killed, and 32 injured. Imaginary Ailments'…

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Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

On last Saturday afternoon while a little girl, aged about 6 years, the daughter of Mr. V. M[?]van, was playing about outside her father's place,…

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Motor Car Accident. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 5

DURING the military 'manoeuvres at Limburg a motor car overturned. Several military attaches were injured…

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Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening, Mr. Andrew Ross, of Inverell, had the misfortune to break a blood vessel. He was seated in the long smoking room at Tattersall's, when…

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Traveller. Street Accidents

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 1

AS the vessel that is continually taken to the well is sure to be broken at last. so with most people who go to and fro among…

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Railway Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 4

Two railway employees named Joseph Jackson and Michael O'Neill, were run down by a goods train at Geelong yesterday. The former was killed, and the…

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A Singular Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 3

The "Manning Times" says: Mr. Leslie, of Nowendoc, who was engaged burning-off, on Thursday morning last, was…

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TELEGRAMS. Headache Powder Fatality. Extraordinary Evidence. Sydney, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 2

SOME extraordinary evidence was given to-day at the adjourned inquest concerning the death of William Wallace, who expired a few minutes after taking a…

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