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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Railway Accident. Several Passengers Injured

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

THE North-western mail train, which left Sydney on Monday night, met with a disaster at Werris Creek early on Tuesday morning. The mishap occurred just…

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The Injured Passengers

The Inverell Times · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

A number of the passengers anti from shock. The [?]…

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Telegrams Mail Guard Injured. Condition Critical. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

ON the arrival of the North-Western mail train from Sydney at Singleton shortly after midnight, the guard. James Ryan, was found lying in a pool of blood…

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Fatal Burning Accident. at Lyra

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

WORD was received in town last night of a frightful burning accident, which oocurred at Lyra early yesterday morning, when a young woman named Mrs…

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Severe Burning Accident. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 5

MRS. WEST, a resident of Balmain, was lighting a fire this morning when her clothes caught fire, and she was burnt all over the body from head to foot. Her screams…

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Railway Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 4

A fatal accident occurred at Melbourne yesterday, when a contractor, named John Connolly, when endeav ouring to enter the carriage of a…

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Serious Railway Accident. Werris Creek

The Uralla News · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 2

A serious railway smash occurred this morning to the Moree outwavdbound mail train, leaving here at 4.25. After leaving the platform, by some…

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Werris Creek Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 4

In connection with the recent accident to the North-West mail train at Werris Greek, the shunters have been suspended, pending, investigations…

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Railway Accident at Werris Creek

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 2

The mail train to Moree was derailed at Werris Creek about 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The train consisted of two…

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Nasty Accident

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 5

A young man named Claude Skinner, son-in-law of Mr. W. Hill, Walcha, employed at Mr. G. F. Nott's joinery works,…

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Remarkable Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 6

A strange accident befel Mr. Hoole, of Kelvin (near Manilla) one day last week. He was leading two draught horses to Mr. Foster's, at Roggabri, and…

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Werris Creek Accident. A Shunter Suspended

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 5

An inquiry into the cause of the accident in the north-western [?] was held at Werris Creek on Wednesday last by a number of Sydney…

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Accident to Railway Guard Serious injuries

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 4

The north-west [?] train has been putting up a record this week(Says Saturday's Singhton [?]). In our last [?] to the railway…

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Fearful Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 4

A YOUNG man, named Alfred Olsen, aged 18, was killed on Wednesday at Koppin Yarratt, near Comboyne. It appears that be, in company with another man, named…

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Burning Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 5

A LITTLE girl named Paulina Bonrke, aged three, died at North Sydney Hospital today as the result of severe burns received last Monday by her clothes, catching fire…

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Serious Railway Accident. Three Passengers Injured. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 2

A RAILWAY accident occurred on a private line of railway at Aberdare, Kurri Kurri West, yesterday afternoon. When nearing a bridge 300ft, above the creek…

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The Latest. Serious Collision.. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 5

A COLLISION occurred at Balmain this afternoon, as a result of which Mr. W. H. Abbott, who retired from the position of Deputy-Registrar General some years ago,…

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A Sen by Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 7

THERE'S no telling what moment a nian's fortune may tarn or what may decide the turning, remarked the visitor, who had been listening…

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Telegraphic. [Through Our Metropolitan Agents.] Serious Railway Accident. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 5

A SERIOUS railway accident happened near Weston, on the Aberdeen line, yesterday afternoon. A van next the engine on the train, containing thirty passengers,…

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Students Injured

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 4

While the students of the University High School, Melbourne were being shown over the Fitzroy Gasworks yesterday afternoon, a heavy…

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