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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

269 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 14

Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 4

Twenty-three persons were killed in a railway collision in North Carolina. The Zulu War. One thousand and forty-seven…

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A Fall of Earth. Mr. Oliver Pritch Ard Injured

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 27 July 1906 · page 2

WHILST ongaged with his father and brothers in quarrying blinding for the Bullina-road, on Barnoy Downn Hill, at about 11.30 a.m. on Tuesday, Mr. Oliver…

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Motor Accident. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1906 · page 5

WHILE Mr. Longworth and his bride (nee Miss Roosevelt) were motoring near Bayrenth, Bavaria, the steering gear collapsed, and the car dropped…

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Honeymoon Tragedy. Bride Drowned

The Inverell Times · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 3

Mrs Maria Bella Kershaw, who had been married only a few days, was drowned at Crookham, a village on the Berkshire side of the Thames,…

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Painful Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 4

Robert Galloway, mailboy, aged 17 years, met with a terrible accident at Rothbury. It appears that the lad was…

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Bathing Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 2

Victor Cameron, a young man residing at Balmain, was drowned while surf-bathing at Bondi yesterday…

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Drowned Whils Bathing. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 5

VICTOR CAMERON, a [?] man residing at Balmain, was drowned yesterday while surf bathing at Bondi…

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Accident to a Fectballes. [?]UNDAGAL, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 5

WHILST the Gandngai foot b[?]llers were morning from Temst one of the team, named Bou[?]ke with a number of others was walking up the bill,…

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Accidentally Shot

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 August 1906 · page 4

A boy name Ambrose Preston was accidentally shot dead by a companion while pig-hunting in New Zealand…

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Sad Drowning Case

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 4 August 1906 · page 2

On Sunday morning a young man named Victor Cameron, who resided in Ewenton street, Bahpain, and was in the employ of Messrs Bennett and…

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Woman Drowned. CULCAIRN, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 5

MRS. NICHOLSON, wife of the railway stationmaster at Colcairo (Vic.), was drowned in a billabong on Tuesday…

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Cablegrams. Motor Car Collision. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 5

THE Date of Connanght's motor car collided with another auto-mobile in Wales. Both cars were smashed, but the occupants, though shaken, were not…

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A Marine Disaster. Italian Emigrant Steamer Sunk. Nearly 400 Drowned. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 3

INFORMATION has been received of a terrible marine disaster, involving the loss of some hundreds of lives. The Italian steamer Sirio, bound from Genoa for…

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Sulky Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 4

MRS. MADDRN, SEN, of Dundee, mot with an accident of a rather serious nature on Tuesday morning. The lady was driving a sulky in the vicinity of Brown's railway gates, when she was thrown…

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Sad Fatal Accident

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 2

A PARTICULARLY sad fatal accident occurred at Baker's Creek on Tuesday evening, last, whereby a young man named Adam Young, aged 24,…

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Local Topics. Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 2

A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alma Chandler, of Yarrowitch, had her foot severely scalded on Saturday last. Her dress catching on the fountain…

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Terrible Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 4

A terrible accident occurred in Sydney on Saturday morning to an engineer named Richard McGrath, 21 years of…

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Shocking Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 August 1906 · page 2

MR. W. WILLIS, assistant engineer at Sachs and Munro's mine, Kingsgate, sustained fearful injuries on Friday afternoon. Whilst engaged working at the machine he…

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Boating Fatality. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 5

THROUGH the capsize of a boat near Glasgow five persons Who were on a holiday trip were drowned…

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Tram Collision. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1906 · page 5

A TRAM collision occured this morning near the Haymarket. One of the cars left the rails and collided with one of the steering po[?]ts in the centre…

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