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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Bathing Accident. BRISBANE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 5

FIVE young men whilst bathing near Maroocbip Heads (Queensland), on Saturday, were swept into the bar, and could not get hack. Victor…

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Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 4

Two girls named Jameson were drowned in the Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai last night, and the tfather also lost his life in…

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Triple Drowning Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 5

Two girls, aged 16 and 10, the daughters of a fettler named Jamieson. who resides near Gundagai, were paddling in the Murrumbidgee River on Monday evening, when…

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Horrible Mining Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 4

A HORIBLE fatality occurred at the Ivanhae Mines, Kalgoorlie, on Friday. Charles Hass and a mate, George Hohnes, were working on a rise between the four and five…

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Railway Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 5

A collision occurred yesterday between two ballast trains on the southcoast line, near Kembla Junction. An engine, some trucks, and the…

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Horrible Mining Fatality

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 6

A horrible fatality occurred at the Ivanhoe Mines, Kalgoorlie. Charles Hass and a mate, George Holmes, were…

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Instinct or Accident ?

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

Arthur Patterson (Great Yarmouth), writing in the "Field," says:—During the slight mats which prevailed in January a well-filled ditch was frozen over, A party…

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Double Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 4

John Krescher, aged 19, and John Brown divel into a lagoon at Rock hampton, Queensland, and both were drowned…

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Peculiar Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 8

A MAN named William Davis was driving along the Nimitybelle-road, near Bombala, on Monday, when bis horse bolted and ran into a wire fence, throwing Davis on to the…

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Painful Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 4

ON Wednesday a young lad named Stacey was turning the handle of some machinery at Mr. A. E. Huttou's establishment, when his left hand became caught in the…

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Fortunes Made by Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 3

IN connection with the diamond discoveries in South Africa, and the fabulous wealth which the mines have since produced, the wide region of fiction offers no parallel…

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Mining Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 4

A prospector named John Smith, aged 66, was almost buried by a fall of earth while working at Yulgilbar, in the Grafton district, sustaining a…

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Clargyman Injured SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 5

THE Ven. Archdeacen Gunther was knocked down by a runaway pony at Parramatta on Saturday evening, and Sustained a fracture of the elbow joint,…

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Accident to a Cleric

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 3

Archdeacon Gunther was knocked down by a runaway pony at Parramatta on Saturday evening and sustained fractures of the elbow joint, besides some nasty bruises and…

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Extraordinary Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 7

An extraordinary accident occurred to a painter named George Bell (50), who resides at 50 Union-street, Pyrmont early on Saturday morning. A…

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Accident at Graman

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 2

A messenger from Graman, on Sunday evening for medical aid supplied the sad news that Mr. John Cross had met with a serious accident while riding in one of tho paddocks…

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Two Little Girls Drowned

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1906 · page 3

A SAD drowning fatality occurred on Friday afternoon at "Sefton Hall," Marrickville, the residence of Mr. Marcus Clarke. Two little girls Do…

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Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

Two girls sought shelter during a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon in the storm—water channel, at North Sydney, and were swept along the…

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Collision in Sydney Harbor. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

THE s.s. Manly collided with the oil launch Agues, in Sydney Harbor, yesterday. afternoon, and out her in two. Mr. F. T. Henniagn, a laundry proprietor…

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Telegraphic. [Through Our Metropolitan Agents.] Fatal Collision. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 5

IN the harbour yesterday afternoon a collision took place off Garden Island, between the steamer Manly (which had a large number of passengers on board) and a 30ft, oil…

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