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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 4

Rufus Falkner, aged 72, fell 62 feet down a shaft near Wellington, N.S.W., and was killed…

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Bathing Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 4

Miss Alice Bicford was accidentally frowned in the Edwards River, at Moulamein, whilst bathing…

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Shooting Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 4

Ernest Mantel was found dead near Curlewis on Sunday. It is surmised that his gun exploded while he was going down an embankment…

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Tonne Woman Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 4

A single woman, Annie Boucher, has been found drowned in Gooda Greek, in the Yass district. She hod left her home a few hours previously…

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Sad Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 4

DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF "[?]RNIE" JUDGE. In Tuesday's issue we briefly reported that "Ernie" Judge, of M'Rae's buckjumping combination, was missing. This morning we…

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Shocking Fatality. Railway Porter Killed

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1907 · page 2

A FRIGHTRFUL fatality occurred at Wallangarra railway station between 8 and 9 o'clock on Friday evening last, when a railway porter in the Queensland service,…

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Youths Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1907 · page 4

Patrick Warren, 18, and John Brown, 10, residing at Enfield, Sydney, were found drowned in a waterhole at Bankstown yesterday. It is…

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Train Burned to Ashes. 32 Killed and 40 Injured in a Collision. New York, Jan. 3

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1907 · page 2

Another railway disaster, almost as terrible in its effects as that at Washington last Sunday, has thrilled all America and drawn attention…

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Drowned

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 February 1907 · page 4

J. Brown, of Brown and Jolly, builders, Lismore, was drowned whilst fishing at Brunswick Heads, yesterday…

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A Sad Fatality

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 February 1907 · page 3

MUCH regret was expressed at Guyra, last week, when the sad news was confirmed of the death, by drowning, of Mr. W. E. Judge, whose body…

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Cable News. London, Wednesday, Collision at Sea

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 February 1907 · page 4

The steamer "Larchmont," house for New York, collided with the collier "Harry Knowlton" off the east cast of the United States, at mid…

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Fatality at Wallangarra

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1907 · page 2

AN accident occurred at Wallangarra on Friday night, when a shunter named Patrick Howe, aged 28, lost his life. The "Tenterfield Star" states that Howe and another young follow were engaged…

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Fatal Collision at Sea. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1907 · page 5

THE steamer Larchmont, bound from Providence (U.S.) to New York, collided with a collier at midnight on Monday, and sank in ten minutes…

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Three Men Drowned

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 3

Floods near Auckland undermined an Austrian gum-diggers' camp on the banks of a stream. Three men were drowned but the fourth managed to struggle ashore…

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Electric Railway Fatality. London. Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 5

AN electric tram on the New York Central Railway fell down an embankment in Bronx Park on Saturday. Fifty persons were killed and many others injured. The…

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A Theatre Accident. Fatal Fall Through a Stage Racecourse

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 4

While William Anderson's Company was playing " The Favorite," a racing melodrama, at Her Majesty's Theatre, Perth, one night lost week, a somewhat…

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Channel Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 4

Two steamers collided in the English channel, with the result that fourteen persons, were drowned…

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Sad Fatality

The Uralla News · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 2

An accident, which unfortunately terminated futally, occurred at Willton on Saturday afternoon during the progress of a sports meeting promoted…

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Workmens' Mishaps. a Miner's Injured Leg Restored by Zam-buk Balm

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 3

BUSY workers in all departments of labor should make a point of always keeping a pot of Zam-Buk Balm handy in order to cope immediately with any mishap that…

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Terrible Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 4

A man named Harry Brooks, an employee at the Sugar Referring Works, Balmain, fell into a tank of boiling water and received shocking…

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