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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Terrible Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 January 1909 · page 4

A seaman named George Davies had both legs severed through being caught in a rope on board the steamer Ozone, at Melbourne yesterday…

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Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 5

A s.d drowning fatality occurred at Mittagong on New Year's Day, at the Ten Feet Falls, Elsie Muriel Pope (14) being the victim. From the facts…

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Collision in the Harbour. (By wire). Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 4

The steamer Dunmore collided with the naval boat Pennace, containing about 73 men, on the harbour this morning…

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Accident at Glencoe

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 4

M[?] Ebzery, sen., slipped and fell at her home, at Glencoe, on Monday last, and had the misfortune to break her leg. The hospital…

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Harbour Calamity. Fifteen Sailors Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 2

The greatest disaster that has ever happened in the maritime history of fort Jackson, resulting in deplorable loss of life under most sensational…

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A Terrible Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 4

George Seagrim came into contact with a circular saw at his father's workshop, in Adelaide with the result that his face was cat almost in…

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Fatal Accident. ''Billy'' O'Connor Killed

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon, an old [?] in the person of. Mr. william O'Connor (better known as ''Billy'') was [?] in church street. He was…

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Riots at Broken Hill. Two Police Injured. Tom Mann and Others Arrested

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 3

The Broken Hill industrial trouble developed on Saturday afternoon into riots. In the morning the delegates from the combined unions saw Mr…

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Fearful Railway Fatality London

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 4

Another awful railway [?] has occurred in America. A goods and passenger train collided [?] and of 69 persons in one [?] were…

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The Harbor Collision Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 4

Very few of the survivors of the recent naval disaster, according to Mr. Curtis, counsel for the Superintendent of Navigation, can throw…

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Shooting Fatality at Stonehenge. Little Boy-killed Instantly

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 4

A terrible shooting fatality occurred at Stonehenge on Saturday, resulting in the death of a led named Gordon Campbell, aged 7 years. It…

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Drowned at Little Coogee

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1909 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday Afternoon.—Lurline Cotter, aged 20, residing at Waverley, whilst bathing at Little Coogee this morning, was carried out to sea and…

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Two Girls Drowned

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 4

Doris Studdart, aged about 16, and Elsie Buist, about 15, were drowned in the Murrumbidgee, at Balranald, on Tuesday afternoon whilst bathing. Both…

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Terrible Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 4

A goods-train crashed into a horsewaggon at a railway crossing near, Geelong. The impact cut the shafts, and horse clear, and the vehicle was'…

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Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1909 · page 4

Mr. J. [?] H met with accident the [?] at [?] He was [?] wire in a [?] when the lev[?] and…

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Fatal Accident Old Man's Sad End

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1909 · page 5

Mr. J. T. Bradley, a resident of many years' standing, aud a no old man of industrious habits, met his death in untimely fashion on Friday…

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Shipping Disaster. 46 DROWNED

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 4

The Clan Ranald, a 3000 ton trampsteamer, went ashore and became a total wreck off Troubridge, South Australia, on Sunday, over 40 lives…

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Double Drowning. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 5

Two brothers, David and Michel G'Brien aged 7 and 10 years respectively [?]ing…

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 4

Two miners named Taylor and Goodall, were fatally injured through an explosion of dynamite at the Gordon Brook Copper mine,…

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Terrible Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred during harvesting operations at B[?]rrnmbeet, Victoria, yesterday. A young man named Geo. Wempsenger, who…

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