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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Motor Car Collision. LONDON, Sunday Night

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

AN Egyptian Prince has been injured, it is feared fatally, by a collision between his motor car and a train. The chaffeur was killed…

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Drake Accident Society Ball. a Monster Success

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1906 · page 2

DRAKE, a usually quiet and sombre little village, is quite equal to an outburst of pomp nnd gaiety, when occasion demands. On Friday night last, with blasting…

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Local and General News. Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1906 · page 2

MRS. J. DONALD, of Mount Mitchell, was driving to town on Saturday morning, and had the misfortune to be thrown from the sulky. The lady sustained injuries of a pain…

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Fatal Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1906 · page 2

MR. T. STYLES, an old resident of these parts, came by his death on Friday morning in a shockingly sudden manner. In company with his little boy, aged nine…

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Railway Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 4

Seventy passegers were injured by a railway collision at Salcoate railway station, Ayrshire…

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Fatal Accident & [?]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 5

A [?] was caused here yesterday morning when it was reported that Mr. James M'Hegh the well known and highly [?] hotel keeper of Ukrain…

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Fatal Accident

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 2
Also in The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

MANY in this district will regret to learn of the death of Mr,. James McHugh, of Uralla which eventuated at Armidale on Thursday morning last, as the result of a railway…

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Fatal Accident at the Railway Station

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 3

Residents of Armidale were greatly shocked on Thursday morning by the sad and painful news that Mr. James M'Hugh, of Uralla, had been…

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Railway Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 2

The " Uralla Times" records the death of Mr. J. M'Hugh, who some years book was a constant visitor to district courses with a horse named Buckthorne, who will be remembered more for…

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EMMAVILLE. Shooting Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 4

NEWS Has just been received of the sudden death of Mr. Johansen, an employee on Strathbogie Station, the result of a rifle wound. From particulars gleaned of thr…

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Racing Accident. Perth, (W.a.,) Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 5

AT the Boulder races, on Saturday, [?]ourteen horses fell, one being killed, while several jockeys were more or less injured…

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Accident to a Racehorse

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning Mr. W. A. Cramsie sustained a serious loss in the death of the aged guiding Bother, by Mozart from Mistake, bred by Mr. W. Bowd, of Warialda. The horse was…

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Fetal Football Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 4

A footballer named Heslop received fatal injuries while playing in a rugby match at Reefton (N.Z.)…

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Motor Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 4

The brother of the King of Portugal was nearly killed by a motor Accident…

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Cablegrams. Serious Accident. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 5

EARL GREY, Governor-General of Canada, had his right eye injured yesterday by the bursting of an electric-light bulb. Splinters of glass have been extracted from the…

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Nasty Accident. London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 2

Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, had his right eye injured by the bursting of an electric light bulb. Pieces of glass were extracted from the eye, which narrowly escaped…

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Fatal Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 4

An extraordinary accident is reported from Talmalmo, on the River Murrry. Two men named Ernest Martin and John Johansen fell into…

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Distressing Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon, little Zeta Unwin, a seven year old daughter of Mr. M. Unwin, a farmer at Glencoe, was happy in childish frolic playing out of doors with a pet calf…

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The Boating Fatality. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 5

IN connection with the reported capsizing of a boat at the Heads yesterday, the police have out been successful, so far, in discovering any clue. It is however, stated that…

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