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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 July 1902 · page 5

The bodies of Bertha Hart, aged 73, and her two-year-old nephew, were found yesterday floating near the pier at Brighton, South Australia…

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Shipping Fatality

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 18 July 1902 · page 2

An overcrowded steamer sank in the River Bege, in Russia yesterday, and 30 persons were drowned…

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Fatally Injured. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1902 · page 5

A MAN named Jacobson was found in an unconscious state on the Marrackville Road last night, and died from a fractured skull upon his admission to…

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Cablegrams [Reuter's Service.—copyright.] Collision off Dover. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1902 · page 5

THE Rangatira came into collision with a barque at midnight off the Dover coast. The latter lost her mainmast and her port lifeboats, and…

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Latest News [Through Our Telegraphic Agents.] Accident in a Colliery. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1902 · page 5

A MAN named Thomas M'Inerney, a miner, was making his way to the Heddon Colliery this morning when he was overtaken by a coal train, and…

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Boating Fatality

The Inverell Times · Saturday 19 July 1902 · page 5

A beat with three men capsized off Peel Island, at Brisbane, yesterday. Two men were drowned, but the third swam ashore…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Boating Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 July 1902 · page 5

A pleasure boat was wrecked off Peel Island, Queensland, yesterday. Two of the occupants, Thomas Mitchell and James Smith, were drowned…

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Double Drowning Fatality. Sydney, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1902 · page 2

Two boys named Julius Percy, and Reginald Ritchie, both aged about seven, were drowned in the Parramatta River this afternoon. It is supposed one fell…

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Two Little Boys Drowned. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 July 1902 · page 5

THIS afternoon, in Parramatta Park, two little boys, one of whom was a son of the brother of the Minister for Public Instruction, both aged 7 years,…

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Accidental Deaths. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 July 1902 · page 5

AT the inquest touching the death of a man who was killed by a tram on the Parramatta Road, on Saturday night, a verdict was returned of…

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Dynamite Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 July 1902 · page 2

A MINER, named Alfred Handle, of Torrington, is reported to have met with a very serious accident on Friday. Engaged in a shaft, he charged a hole with dynamite. which did not move any…

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Collision at Hamburg. Fifty Lives Lost

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 July 1902 · page 5

The the "Hansa" collided with the pleasure steamer "Primus," off Hambnrg. Fifty lives were lost…

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Wholesale Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 July 1902 · page 4

Two hundred Chinese were drowned by the capsizing of a steamer it. Conton…

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The Sham Fight Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 July 1902 · page 4

AFTER a hearing extending over six days, the inquiry concerning the death of the late [?]rooper Edgar terminated on Thursday last. The duration of…

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Serious Mining Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 July 1902 · page 4

A serious mining accident occurred on Friday evening at Torrington (says "Glen Innes Guardian.") It appears that…

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A Railway Accident. HAMILTON, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1902 · page 5

A RAILWAY employee named James Farnham was run over by a train near Hamilton station lost night. His right leg was taken off below the knee, his…

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Boating Fatality

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 30 July 1902 · page 5
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A fishing boat capsized during a squall off Wellington Heads, New Zealand, and the three occupants were drowned…

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The [?]dale Fatality. an Open Verdict

Guyra Argus · Wednesday 30 July 1902 · page 2

The inquiry concerning the [?] of the late Troeper Edgar, at [?] dale, was concluded on Thurs[?] The jury, after a long deli[?]…

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Collision of Steamers. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 5

THE steamers Prins Alexander and Ban Hin Guan came into collision off the coast of Malacca, when the Prins Alexander sank, and 40 of those on…

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