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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Army Trial Motor-car Fatality in the New Kent Road. Extraordinary Statements

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 3

Yesterday(December 22) Dr Waldo concluded an inquiry at the Southwark Coroner's Court into the circumstances of the death of Emma Simpson, aged…

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Accidental Death

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon, Maurice, an infant son of Senior constable Dower, of West Avenue, was playing "at horses" round the table of the dining room. On the table had been placed, for a…

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Shooting-Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 4

A party of youths were out shooting at Hamilton (Victoria) yesterday, when a gun accidentally went off and shot one of the party (William…

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Stage Bridge Collapses Forty Members of a Chorus Injured

The Inverell Times · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 3

Scenes of wild excitement were caused in the Metropolitan Opera House last night by an accident which took place on the stage in full view of an audience…

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News of the Day. Accident

The Inverell Times · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 4

On Wednesday last Mr. M. Markham [?] Oakwood, met with an Occident, It appearance he was riding a horse when the bridle came off with the result that Mr. Markham was…

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Accident

The Uralla News · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 2

Last Tuesday Mr. J. Munro (machine expert) met with an accident resulting in a fracture of the left arm close to the wrist. He was alighting…

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Serious Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 2

Mr. Guy Craw ford, of Moona Prants, met with a serious accident on Wednesday last. It appears that he was assisting a housebreaker to rope a young…

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Not Drowned. Charles Braun Turns Up

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 8

Charles lima Braun, ex-member of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, who mysteriously disappeared from the steamer Euryaius, in Melbourne…

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Stage Bridge Collapses. Forty Members of a Chorus Injured

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 5

On Sunday, January 8th, the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:-- Scenes of wild excitement were caused…

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Peculiar Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 4

Mrs. C. Nixon, of Victoria (Bathurst), was the victim of a simple but serious accident the other day. She was…

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Collision at Sea. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 5

THE steamer Parisian, with 1000 peo pie on board, collided with the steamer St. Albans, with 800 passengers aboard, off Halifax. Both vessela…

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Awkward Accidents for Actors

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 2

MR. MULHOLLAND tells a tale of an Irish tonr in his yonnger days, when the company were to give a representation of Colleen Bawn at a hall in a country town'…

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Accidents

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 3

When remining. from the Show ground to town on. Wednesday afternoon in a buggy, Mr. T. Cusick (of the well-known firm of Rawle and…

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A Chinaman's Mad Act. Two Persons Injured

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 4

A Chinaman named Ah Sim ran, amok through Newtown this morning. He rushed into a shop and fired at another celestial named Tooe Sing,…

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Train Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 4

A train was derailed at Sceaux, near Paris. The carriages took fire, and several persons were killed…

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Nasty Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 6

A nasty accident happened on Wednesday last whereby Mr. J. A. Nivison J P., had his leg broken and other…

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Collision at Circular Quay. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 5

THE ferry Steamer [?] and the [?] Here collided near Circular Quay last night the former being damaged One passenger a boy received minor…

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Double Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 4

A dorover named Smith, in charge of 1800 cattle, and a [?]or named Alex ander M'Kay, were both drowned while bathing at Beeroots,…

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Terrible Disaster. on the Midland Railway. Expresses in Collision. Wheckage Ablaze. Killed, 20 Injured. Terrible Scenes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 3

Not since the Bullhouse accident, near Penistone, in 1884, when 24 persons were killed end 60 injured by the breaking of a crank-axie of a last…

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Street Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

A YOUNG boy (son of Mr. H. Flett) was run over by a [?]ab on Monday evening while playing about the Band, which was playing in front of the Town Hall. The little chap sustained some nasty…

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