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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Sulky Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 August 1909 · page 2

The other evening the horse tached to Mr. R. Chappell's su[?] boited, after the vehicle had caped After travelling some distant…

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Motor Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 4

A motor-car fell into-ft river near San Marino. Five of the ocupants, who were Italians, were killed…

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A Harbor Collision. During a Fog. No One Injured. Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 2

THE ferry steamers Kaikai and Kulgoa collided off Circular Quay during a heavy fog at 8 o'clock this morning. The boats did not see each other till within a few…

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A Painful Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 3

One of the most terrible accidents which so often happen in connection with the work of chaff-cutting by machinery occurred on Friday last, Mr…

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Shooting Fatality

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 2

At Tamworth (N.S.W.) on Thursday last, Raymond West, aged 13, st[?]ped over a rifle to lace his boots, with the muzzle against his abdomen, when the…

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A Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 2

'Bystander writes:—" I send you the following mishap of a Bakkulla resident in the person of Mr H. B. Moffitt, which occurred about 6 o'clock…

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Our Wires. Boxing Fatality. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 5

As a result of injuries received in a boxing contest at Wingham on Saturday night Fred Clarve, of Forster, died yesterday…

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A Chapter of Accidents

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon last a youth who was driving along Evan-street in a sulky, knocked a man down and ran over him neatly capsizing the sulky…

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Saw-milling Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 4

An employee at Fraser's mill, Grafton, had his arm and leg severed by a saw this morning…

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Local and General. A Peculiar Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 2

Some eight or ten days ago whilst a boy named Gillis Gowan was roller skating he had he misfortune to fall heavy on one arm and shoulder. The…

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Mining Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 11

A miner named Charles Peavous was killed and his companion Charles Woosman injured by a water bucket knocking some material down the shaft…

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 August 1909 · page 5

A miner named Charles Peavons was killed, and a companion, Charles Woos. man, injured by, a water bucket knocking some material dow the shaft of a…

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Victorian Railway Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 30 August 1909 · page 4

Owing to the recent heavy rain in Victoria the railway bridge over McCallum's Creek on the Maryborough line, collapsed while a train from…

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Collision in the Harbor. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 5

There was an exciting collision in the harbor, on Dawe's Point, this morning, when the steamer Kumintts crowded with passengers from…

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Terrible Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 2

Three men, while engaged tarring a railway bridge over a deep creek on the Maitland-Ceasrock line on Friday, met with a terrible accident…

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Disastrous Mining Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 2

Through the breaking of a Cable, on Friday last, a mining cage containing 30 persons fell to the bottom of one of the pits in the naval colliery at…

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Local and General. Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 2

Whilst engaged in a friendly boxing bout with another gentleman at Sam Billin's training quarters on Monday, Mr. Sid Durn had the misfortune to…

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Tram Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 5

A tram collison occutted near the Eppding racecourse A tram bound from the city to Blamain collided with a car bound to the city The brakes…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 14 September 1909 · page 7

At Torrington on last Sunday week Clarence David, the infant son of Mr aud Mrs. James Ryman, was found drowned in a hole of water about 2 feet…

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Motor Buggy Fatality. Melbourne

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 14 September 1909 · page 5

Whilst driving in a motor buggy on Sunday afternoon at Kilmore, Rev. Father Martin and the driver (Thomas Kelly, aged 32) met with…

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