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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Tram Fatality. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 5

JOSEPH BARLOW, 84, who had resided at the old pensioners' home in Bathurst, was on a visit to Sydney this week with a friend who lost sight of him last night, and reported…

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British General's Narrow Escape. Rescued From Drowning by a Japanese Offcer

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 1

Mr. Rennet Burliegh writing from Tokio says: "I have learned that a nearly fatal mishap befell General [?]an…

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Local and General News. Accident

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon Mr. A. Sullivan while standing near an obstreperous young horse, received a nasty kick from the latter, the result being that the small bone of bin leg…

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Local Topics. Painful Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 2

On Sunday last a painful accident happened to Mr. Colin Grieve, son of Mr. W. Grieve, jun. It appears he was in the act of examining a bicycle…

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Drowning Fatality

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 2

A sad drowning fatality occurred at Glenmorristn on Monday, when the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch strayed into a waterhole. Mr. M. J…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 3

A sad drowning fatality occurred at Glenmorrison on Monday afternoon last when Herbert Vincent Lynch an infant son, aged 13 months, of Mr…

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Sad Fatal Accident. SYDNEY

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 2

KENNETH Lobban, a farmer living on the Murray, was clearing timber yesterday when he was hit by a falling tree. His dog returned home…

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Local Topics. Painful Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 2

A very painful accident happened to Mrs. A. Hoy, of Round Swamp, on Tuesday afternoon last. It appals that Mr. and Mrs. Hoy were driving…

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Mining Fatality

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 4

At Broken Hill on Saturday morning, two miners, James Ferguson and Thomas PoPock, were blown to pieces…

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Local Topics. Suiky Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 2

A Sulky accident happened near Hartford on Monday evening. It appears that Mrs. P. Kenny and her son William were returning from town…

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Railway Accident Fund. BATHURST, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 5

SPEAKING at the annual meeting of the Lomotive Engine Drivers' Association at Bathurst on Saturday Mr. Sydney Smith, Postmaster-General, urged the…

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Bomb Outrage. Two Killed,21 Injured. Intended Victim Escapes. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 3

General Maksimovitch, who has been frequently threatened: with death by bomb, owing to his having suppressed the May-Day demonstrations'…

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Motor Fatality in England

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 6

THE following is from the article published by the London "Daily Mail" on April 20, offering £100 reward for the discovery of the driver of the car that…

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Shocking Accident. BRISBANE, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 5

A SHOCKING accident occurred at the Woollongabba railway goods shed today. A boy named Norman Mullen, 21 years of age, with his sister and…

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Poison Fatality. ROCKHAMPTION

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 2

MR. CALLAGHAN reported to the police this morning that be saw a man lying in the Rockhampton Rowing Club boatshed, apparently suffering from…

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Channel Accident. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 5

DURING the night maneo[?]vres of the Channel Fleet on Friday, the battleship Caesaar, in the fog, rammed and [?]ank a sailing vessel. 25 of the crew of the…

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Peculiar Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 4

A correspondent at Charleville informs the "Daily Mail" :-- "I was witness, to a peculiar accident which happened in a bil…

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Terrible Mining Fatality

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred at the Virginia mine, Eaglehawk, on Thursday. Two miners named Peter Johnson and John Mayberry went to work in the north…

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Tram Collision. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 5

A COLLISION took place this afternoon between two trams which were bound for the Rosebery Park races. A number of passengers received a shaking,…

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Fatal Collision. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 June 1905 · page 5

THE P. and O. steamer Isis collided with a Turkish steamer at Brindisi, Italy. 14 Turks were drowned…

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