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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Racecourse Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 2

A jockey named John Logue was killed at the hospital races at Maitland yesterday, while another jockey received injuries of a serious nature…

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When You Go on the Water. How to Keep From Drowning If You Fall Overboard

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 October 1904 · page 2

In order to lessen, if possible, the number of fatal drowning accidents that occur during the summer the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps has issued a…

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Buggy Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 4

A serious accident happened to Mr. Alexander Rodgers. owner of Attunga Station, Tamworth, and a boy named Braun a few days ago. They were…

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Accident to the Duke of Connaught. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 October 1904 · page 8

After inspecting the garrison, the Duke of Connanght, Inspector-General of the Forces, hired a motor car, and proceeded from Edinburgh to Gosford,…

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Gun Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1904 · page 4

WORD was received at Inverell of a sad mishap which occurred in Bukkulla station on Monday, resulting in a young man named henry Gott receiving frightful injuries. Gott was leaning on…

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Irish Lake Disaster Sailing Boat Capsizes. Picnic Party Drowned

The Inverell Times · Saturday 29 October 1904 · page 3

A sad boating disaster occurred on Lough Neagh on Tuesday evening, 23rd August, when six members of a party of seven, who left to picnic on Coney…

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Tram Accidents

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 29 October 1904 · page 2

Two separate collisions between electric trains occurred at the same spot at an interval of half an hour, in…

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Boating Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 2 November 1904 · page 4

By the capsizing of a boat at North Auckland, three settlers named Lee, Street, and Gardener, with the latter's wife, were drowned…

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Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 4

What might have resulted in a serious accident occurred to the Brisbane-to-Sydney mail train on Tuesday morning. Three miles north of Werris Creek, a horse-box attached to the rear of the…

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 4

A miner named Davis was killed, and four others injured, by an explosion in the Caledonia Coal Company's mine, at Cessnock…

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Irish Lake Disaster Sailing Boat Capsizes. Picnic Party Drowned

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 3

A sad boating disaster occurred on Lough Neagh on Lough Neagh on Tuesday evening, 23rd August, when six members of a party of even. who left to picnic on Coney…

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Riding Fatality. Uralla

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 November 1904 · page 5

Mr. Alfred Hawkins, of Wollun, aged 30, was killed yesterday by a fall from his horse…

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Nasty Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1904 · page 2

ON Saturday morning Master Ernest Brown, son of Mr. C. W. Brown, was the victim of a painful accident. He was riding a young horse along Grey-street, and when…

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Two Boys Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 5

Two cousins, sons of Messrs. A. J. Skellett and A. D. Skellett, of Picton, were drowned whilst bathing in the Nepean River, The lads sank in the…

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Drowned Babies the Mother in Court

The Inverell Times · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 3

There was a painful scene in the Southwark Police Court on September 1st, when Maria Jane Martin again appeared on a charge of drowning her three…

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Explosion of a Big Gun. the New Zealand Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 2

The following particulars of the recent accident at Fort Balance (N.Z.), by which Gunner Palmer lost his life and five others were seriously injured, have been received…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 5

A young girl named Malone, daughter of a farmer at Kooweerup, Victoria, was cleaning her father's gun, when it exploded and shot dead her…

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Terrible Burning Fatality. 3 Children Burnt to Death. SYDNEY

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

A MOST pathetic tragedy occurred at yatala, three miles fromm Beenleigh, Q, on Saturday night, when the residence of a farmer named Frederick Doblem was…

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Bomb Outrage at Barcelona. 21 Persons Injured. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

A bomb outrage is reported from Barcelona, Spain. Two men handed to the hall porter at the Mayor's residence a basket…

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Drowned Babies the Mother in Court

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 6

There was a painful scene In the Southwark Police Court on September 1st, when Maria Jane Martin again appeared on a charge of drowning her three…

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