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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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The Southport Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 3

THE search for the missing boat party from Southport (Q.) was continued on Monday, and resulted in the finding of the boat bottom upwards, but there…

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Sad Boating Fatality. Six People Missing

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 3

As briefly mentioned in our telegrams last issue, the police authorities at Bri[?]bane on Sunday afternoon received a report, from Southport to the effect that a…

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An Accident

Guyra Argus · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 6

Mr Harry Starr had a narrow escape of being badly injured on Wednesday morning. He was sitting on the van, which on the occasion was…

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Racing Fatality. ADELAIDE, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 5

MR. A. G. H. CARTER, the rider of Cargo, who fell in the Knox Club Cup, received injuries from which he died in the Adelaide hospital a few hours later…

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Terrible Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 2

A FRIGHTFUL railway accident occurred near Numurkah Victoria, on Thursday morning. A party of six persons driving in a buggy across the railway line were run into by a special train about…

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Another Shooting Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 4

At Colac yesterday, a young man was lowering the hammer of a gun, when the charge exploded. The pellets struck a tank and glanced off and…

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Sulky Accident

Guyra Argus · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 6

Messrs Harry and Percy Chisholm had a smash during their progress homeward on Thursday last. Their horse took fright at a motor-car and…

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A Shooting Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 October 1905 · page 4

Charles Lennon, a well-known grazier in the Inverell district, was accidentally shot in the face yesterday, being mistaken for a wallaby in the…

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Boating Fatality. MELBOURNE, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 5

In Melbourne Bay to-day a boat containing three sailors was capsized. Two of them were drowned…

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Shooting Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 4

MR. CHARLES LENNON a well-known grazier in the Inverell district, was Accidentally shot in the face on Monday being mistaken for a wallaby in scrub. In falling, his own gun exploded badly…

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Woodburn Burning Fatality

The Inverell Times · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 7

The community of Woodburn (writes a correspondent) were plunged in sorrow when the news of a terrible burning accident was circulated on…

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Fatal Train Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 4

Frederick Henry Brown, a painter in the Public Works Department, attempted to alight at Rockdale Railway Station last night, while the train…

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Shooting Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1905 · page 4

Mr. J. C. Lennon, of Lunawarra, Gum Flat, was the victim of a serious shooting accident on Sunday afternoon last. He was out with a companion…

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Railway Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 5

Thomas Keogh, a fettler, was run over and killed by a train near Erskinville railway station to-day…

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Local Topics. Injured Knee

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 28 October 1905 · page 2

Mr. James Hoole, of Walcha, is an inmate of the Tamworth Hospital suffering with an injured knee. The injured limb has been placed in…

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A Shocking Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 October 1905 · page 4

While on her honeymoon yesterday, Mrs. M'Donald fell from the balcony of a Coffee Palace at Kat[?], and seriously fractured her skull, she is…

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Telegraphic. [Through Our Metropolitan Agents.] Terrible Mine Fatality. West Maitland

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1905 · page 5

A FIRE broke out in the Stanford-Merthyr Colliery (Kurri Kurri) at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, and while an attempt was being made to seal the tunnel an explosion…

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Supposed Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 November 1905 · page 4

Two young men, named Henry Lambourue and Archie Marshall, are supposed to have been drowned at Broughton Island on Saturday through…

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Pea-Rifle Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 November 1905 · page 4

A boy named Wilfred Higgins was accidentally shot dead by his mate with a pea-ride, while out rabbit shooting in the Nyngan district…

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Terrible Mine Fatality. West Maitland

Guyra Argus · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 2

A fice broke out in the Stanford Methyr Colliery (Kurri-Kurri) at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, and while an attempt was being made to seal the…

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