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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Railway Accidents

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 5

AT Yailsop, W.A., the brakes failed to hold a train, which dashed into an embankment. A passenger was killed and two were injured. A WOMAN was run over by a train at Auburn…

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Railway Accident in West Australia

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 3

A serious railway accident occurred near Yarloop (W.A.) on Tuesday night, resulting in the death of one man and injuries to others, whose…

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A Tribute. To the memory of the late Leslie Archer, who met with a fatal accident near Llangothlin, whilst driving with his brother

Guyra Argus · Thursday 23 June 1904 · page 3

HE was a bright, cheerful and prom[?] lad, and had just attained his 18th birthday on the 29th of May. The present writer having had the…

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Sad Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

Two men were killed at Kensington, Melbourne, yesterday by the collapse of the wall of a burnt- out flour factory, and two others were terribly injured…

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Mining Fatality

The Uralla News · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

Two men, both of whom were married, were killed yesterday in a mine at Charters Towers by a fall of earth. A third man present was uninjured…

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Mining Fatality. Charters Towers (Q.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 5

Two men, both of them married, with large families, were killed yesterday by a fall of earth in a Charters Towers mine. A third man who was with them was not injured…

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Fatal Accident

The Uralla News · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

Two men were killed yesterday at Kensington, Melbourne, by the collapse of a wall. Two others were terribly injured…

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Fatal Accident. MELBOURNE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 5

Two men were killed at Kensington (Vic.) yesterday by the collapse of a wall of a burnt out flour factory, and two others were terribly injured…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

Two men, both of whom were married and had families, wore killed yesterday in a mine at Charters Towers by a fall of earth. A third man was injured…

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Pilgrims Drowned. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1904 · page 5

WHILE 250 pilgrims, including many women and children, were crossing the river Don (Russia) in a ferry boat, the bottom of the boat, which…

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A Terrible Catastrophe. 160 Persons Drowned. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1904 · page 2

WHILE 250 Pilgrims, many of whom were women and children, were crossing the River Dool in Russia, in ferry bust the bottom of the latter fell out owing to…

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Naval Engagement. A Battleship Sunk. 750 Men Drowned. LONDON, Suaday

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1904 · page 2

A Naval fight took place off Port Arthur onn Friday, when the Russians were again defeated. The battleship Peresviet (12.674 tons)…

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Express in Collision

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 29 June 1904 · page 3

Very narrowly the 8.15 Great Northern sleeping car express from King's cross to Edinburgh escaped destruction at Darlington early on Saturday morning…

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The Mobee Fatality. Williams Confesses

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 June 1904 · page 4

Lewis Williams, arrested for the murder of Mullah Mohammed, hear Moree, has confessed to the crime. Williams said that he shot deceased…

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Dreadful Burning Fatality

The Inverell Argus · Thursday 30 June 1904 · page 3

The Bingara "Telegraph" of yesterday says:—"Abont 6.15 p.m. on Monday the residents of Junction-street were alarmed by frantic screams proceeding from the…

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Fatal Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1904 · page 4

NEWS has been received of the sudden death of Mr. Martin Fitzgerald, manager of the Malacca Diamond Mine, 12 miles from Inverell. It appears that the deceased, who left Copeton on…

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Sensations in a Railway Accident

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 3

Describing the accident to a party of tourists while ascen[?] the Sc[?] in Australia when a rope railway waggon can off the fine and fell with its occpiants about [?]…

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Sensations of Drowning

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1904 · page 6

A MEDICAL man described in a recent issue of a Scotch medical journal his experiences when dragged underwater with a foundering ship. He struck out…

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Dreadful Burning Fatality

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1904 · page 3

About 6.15 p.m. on Monday the residents of Junction-street were alarmed by [?]e screams proceeding from the d[?] of Mr. Tom Reading's…

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A Bingara Burning Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1904 · page 2

OUR Bmgara contemporary reports the following shocking occurrence :--" About 6.15 p.m. on Monday last the residents in Junction-street were alarmed by frantic screams proceeding from the…

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