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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Cablegrams in Brief. Drowned in a Bath

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 8

Miss Jean Clemens, daughter of Mr. Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), has been drowned in a bath at her father's house at Redding, U.S.A.,…

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Disastrous Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 4

In a dense fog in the Irish Sea the steamer Arcadian collided with the Ayrshire, hound from Manchester to Australia. The former, sank, three…

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Fatal Railway Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

Mr. Spencer Trask, a New York [?] has been killed in a railway [?] at Croton (N.Y.) While sleeping in his private car…

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Fatality at Moree. Body round In the Mohl River

The Inverell Times · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 6

On Monday morning at 8 o'clock, the local police were informed that the body of a man had been found floating in a waterhole in the Mehi River, about…

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Shocking Accident. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 4

Thoma. Buaoeil, aged about [?] and a young man named Peter Thomson, were driving sheep into Tom worth yesterday, On reach[?]…

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Burning Fatality. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 5

Mrs. Whiting, wife of Cecil Whiting, town traveller for Rothwell's, Limited, Toowoomba, was engaged upon a fire at her residence in…

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Fatality at Wedding Party

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 6

After lingering unconscious for eight days, Mrs. George Lewis, one of the victims of the vehicular accident which occurred at Winton (Vic), after…

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Senator Millen Injured

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 6

Senator Millen, Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council, was driving on Tuesday morning with two friends in a sulky at Burren Junction, on the…

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Local and General. Accident at Howell

The Inverell Times · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 2

A man named Henry Beacham bad his leg broken by a fall of earth in a slope at the King Conrad mine, Hotrell, on Monday…

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Accident at Mr. Nott"s Mill

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 4

An extraordinary accidnet—happily unattended by any fatal results—occurred at about 8.15 a.m. yesterday at Mr. G. F. Nott's joinery works. A…

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A Girl Drowned

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 2

A case of drowning occurred yesterday in the creek below the police barracks, the victim being Olive Jeal, 13 years of…

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A Big Gun Accident. Thirteen Artillerymen Injured

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

Point Nepean Port, Melbourne, was on Thursday the scene of a sensational accident while operations were being carried out in connection with Lord…

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Lieut. A. F. Avern Injured

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 7

We learn with regret that Lieut. A. F. Avern who recently accompanied the 6th A.L.H. to the Liverpool encampment met with a painful accident, and from…

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Traffic Still Suspended in Many Parts. Many Families Homeless. Four Persons Drowned. Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

600 men are now engaged repairing the damage to the railway line in the north-west. Traffic is still suspended in the many…

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Heavy Floods. Narrabri in Danger Stock Drowned and Property Damaged. Residents Desert Their Homes NARRABRI

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

The Namoi River has risen twenty-two feet, and the upward tendency of the water continues. A terrible flood is threatened. Already the water has…

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A Girl Drowned

The Inverell Times · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 3

A case of drowning occurred on Sunday at Warialda, in the Creek below the police station, the victim being Olive Joel, 13 years of age. The girl bad…

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Burning Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 4

Jessie Teare, aged about 20, a domestic employed at Kensington (S.A.) was making jam, when her clothes caught alight from the stove,…

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Extraordinary Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 4

An extraordinary accident occurred at Notts' Timber Yards and Journey Works at Armidale on Friday. Very soon after an engine of 375-horse power,…

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Drowned in the Flood

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

We [?] to learn that Mr. James Stoop, a native of Glen Innes. whose parents still reside here, was drowned in the flood near Moree Mr…

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Sad and Fatal Accident. Death of Mr. Daniel O'leary

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident, which, unfortunately was attended with fatal results, occurred on Sunday morning last to Mr. D. O'Leary, the well-known coach…

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