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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Fatal Accident

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

ORANGE, Thursday Night.—A young man named Hawke was killed at the "Pinnacle," near Orange, yesterday, through a tree falling on him…

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A Royal Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 4

The German Empress was thrown from her horse and received some br[?]ises, but escaped serious injury…

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Preventing Railway Accidents

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 4

MR. JAMES KRISS, a Gundagai blacksmith, has invented an apparatus which he claims will minimise the danger of railway accidents similar to the Braybrook…

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Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 5

An unknown man was run over and killed on the railway line last night. The body was horribly cut about and disfigured, making identification…

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Crane Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 5

While engaged lifting an iron coal-bunker at Eveleigh to day, the chain on the crane slipped, causing the bunker to tilt. Three [?] were…

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Painful Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 4

A young man named Davis had an arm taken off at Corowa, while attending to a chaff-cutter…

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Drowning in State

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 6

Graf Finkenstein, who was very proud of his [?] fell from the Hamburg-American liner into the [?] "Man Overboard!" shouted a…

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Colliery Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday Night.—Anexplosion occurred in a colliery at Pittsburg America, and six miners were killed. A subsequent fall of earth entombed…

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Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 4

ON Thursday afternoon while on route to town in a sulky, Miss Annie Fraser, met with unpleasant experience. The young lady was driving along the road leading…

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Shooting Accident Inverell Resident the Victim

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 2

Mr. Maurice Buxton, a resident of Inverell, was the unfortunate victim of a shooting accident yesterday. He left Inverell about 8 o'clock in the…

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Telegrams. Sydney. Tuesday. Another Railway Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 June 1908 · page 4

At Tamworth on Monday night, the, local station master, Mr. Hetherington, was run down by a goods train, and suffered such serious…

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Sad Railway Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 9

THE community at large was shocked when it became known on Monday night that Mr. Thomas Hetherton, who has been in charge of the East…

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The Latest. Shipping Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday Night.—A private cable states that seven of the crew were lost and four saved during the foundering of Mr. Fenwicke's new tug boat "Belmore," bound…

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Drowned Herself and Children

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.— A woman named Sulman, whose husband is employed at the Sunshine Harvester Works, drowned herself and her two…

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Railway Smash. Circus Train in Collision. Brisbane

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 7

A SPECIAL train, conveying Wirth's circus, smashed into a goods train this morning at Croydon Junction, a couple o[?] miles on the Brisbane side of Maryborogh…

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Accident to a Cabman

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday Afternoon.—During last night the police found a cab driver named Anthony Carter underneath his hansom in Park-street, with his head near the hind…

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Sad Railway Fatality

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 2

The community at large was shocked when it became known on Monday night that Mr. Thomas Hetherton, who has been in charge of…

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Fatal Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 July 1908 · page 4

Engene Dorney, aged 78, was to-day ran over by a van and fatally injured. Arthur Woodward has been arrested on a charge of having caused…

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Accidents at Broken Hill

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 4

The Government Inspector of Mines, at Broken Hill, says that quite 70 per cent of the mining accidents there are preventable, the…

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Terrible Railway Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday Afternoon. — The mangled remains of a married woman, who has not yet been identified, were found this morning near Newtown…

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