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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Motor Car Bicycle-collision. £200 Damages

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 2

Cecil Crispin callaghan claimed £200 from Robert Pearson for injuries received in a collision with defendant's motor-car…

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Wreck of the Khyber. Doomed in Sight of Home! Twenty-three Men Drowned

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 6

After a practical immunity for two years from disastrous shipwreck, the rock-bound coast of Land's End has again been the scene of a terrible…

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District Court. (Before Acting-Judge Harris). Thursday, June 15. Motor Car-bicycle Collision. (Continued from page 2)

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 4

Robert A. Pearson, defendant, recalled stated that the extreme width of the car was 5ft. 4in and the roadway was 17 feet in width, from…

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Gun Explosion on a Battleship. Eighteen Persons Injured. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

WHILE H.M.S. Magnificent, one of the battleships of the Atlantic fleet, was engaged in gun practice off Tetuan, on the coast of Morocco, a shell exploded inside…

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Appalling Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 5

Owing to an explosion in a Russian colliery, 500 people were killed…

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Horrible Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 3

An accident occurred in the Waihi Goldmining Company's mine, Auckland, (N.Z.) recently, by which James Loft,…

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Collision of Soldiers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 June 1905 · page 4

Two squadrons of Dragoons and Cuirassiers, while, manceuvring near Lyons, France, came into collision. Two officers were killed, and 20…

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Fatal Coal-pit Accident

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 3

A melancholy accident occurred one June morning, in the year 1852, at one of the coalpits in Messrs. Dammock and Co.'s Bunker's Hill Colliery, Bliston,…

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Terrible Shooting Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 July 1905 · page 4

At a here drive near Conon Arthur Mould was [?] his [?] when both hands of his [?] [?] discharged and he was about…

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Fatal Accident

The Inverell Times · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 8

A sad accident occurred on Friday last near Allandale, by which a lad named Alex Smith lost his life. Mr. P. Smith, father of the unfortunate…

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Accidental Death. SYDNEY

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

A YOUNG man named John Stilwell accidentally shot himself dead yesterday while cleaning a pea rifle at his residence, Neutral Bay. Deceased…

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Burning Fatality

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 2

A sad affair took place at Yarrowitch on Thursday, last week, when Louisa Good win, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Goodwin, died from…

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Islanders Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

Three French residents of New Caledonia, who recently left Noumea in an open boat for some adjacent islands on a hunting expedition, are supposed…

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Paris Motor Accident

The Inverell Times · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 3

From Paris on May 9th, the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:— All Paris is shocked by a…

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Accident

The Uralla News · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 3

An accident, which may have had a more serious ending, occured to several parties attending the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. T. McMillan's child. It appears that opposite…

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Motor Accidents. Grand Duke Stoned

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

A large number of motor-car accidents which have recently taken place in Germany has greatly excited public feeling, and one of the first to…

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Serious Accident

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 July 1905 · page 2

A VERY serious sulky accident took place at 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning near the residence of Mr. W. H. Evenis, with the result that two persons were seriously…

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 5

A miner named Herbert Miller was Killed by a fall of earth at the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, to day…

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Young Man Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 5

A young man named Hay jumped or fell from the steamer Bronswing off Mortlake, Parramatta River, last night. His body was recovered this…

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Shooting Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 July 1905 · page 4

A well known resident of Appin, named Frederick Molholland, shot himself dead yesterday…

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