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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Tram Car Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 5

Two Iron-oirs collided at Philadelphia. Four peoplo were killed and twelva injured…

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Railway Fatality. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 5

A LAD named Victor M'Garrigle, employed as a cleaner at the Werris Creek engine sheds, was run over last night by an engine, and killed near the platform…

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Railway Collision. Brisbane, Thursday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 5

A COLLISION occurred at Eudlo railway station, in Queensland, between two goods trains daring shunting operations, but not much damage was done…

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Railway Accident. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 5

BEST ELLIOTT, aged 25, a shunter, had both legs taken off at the Central Railway Station this morning. It is alleged that he attempted to board a train while in motion,…

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Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 4

An American schooner and a British steamer cellidcd in the Bay of Fundy. The schooner sank, 16 lives being lost…

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Driving Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 4

Francis Leonard, a van-proprietor, was to day killed through his van [?] liding with a vehicle driven by a man named Murray Besward. The latter…

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Accidentally Shot

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 4

During firing operations by the Light Horse at Adelaide, private Baker, aged 19, was shot in the chest. His condition is critical. He was…

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Another Railway Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 4

ON Wednesday night Victor M'Garrigle, aged 15 years and 10 months, was killed at Werrie Creek. He had only lately been emplayed on the railway, and had drawn…

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Another Motor-Car Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man named Duke Doyle was run down and killed by a motor-car at Warrandyte, near Melbourne, on Saturday…

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Woman Throws Some. Governor-general Escapes In[?]jured Whilst Assistant Set[?] Severe Wounds

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 3

Instances of Japan[?] and murder from nearly every part of Russia continue to pour in but the latest attempt at assossination has…

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Sulky Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 4

ON Friday Mr. H. C. Holmes, having business to transact, left the steed attached to his sulky securely fastened to a post in front of Ald. Colditz's establishment. By…

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Terrible Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 June 1908 · page 4

George Gogan, aged 51 was struck by a train at St. Mary's last night, while sitting on the coping of a bridge waiting for the brother. His head…

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A Football Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 June 1908 · page 4

A man named Walter Rocks, of Tocumwal, died from the effects of injuries sustained vhile playing in a football match on Saturday…

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1907'S Grim Roll. the Oddest Accidents Of, the Year

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 5 June 1908 · page 6

The hackneyed saying about truth being stranger than fiction is constantly brought to mind by incidents of everyday life. Things…

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Drowning Fatalities

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1908 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.—George Cottell, parliamentary candidate for Moreton at last Queensland elections, was drowned in the Maroochy River on…

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Shocking Sulky Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1908 · page 4

AN accident, accompanied by terrible injuries, occurred on Sunday afternoon, the victims being Misses Phoebe and Cecila Marshall, daughers of Mr. W. Marshall…

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Driving Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 June 1908 · page 4

Two buggies collided at Tribourne, Queensland, yesterday, one occupant, Mrs, Hislop, bring fatally injured…

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Railway Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.—A pilgrim train and a goods train collided in Italy, and nine pilgrims were killed and eighty injured…

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Mother Drowned with her Two Children

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 6

A DISTRACTED Grimsby mother on Tuesday morning took her two children to the lonely teach of Cleethorpes, and shortly afterwards was found dead,…

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Accident to a Battleship

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Owing to an accident in connection with a valve, the British battleship Irresistible narrowly escaped from sinking. The…

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