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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Fatal Boxing Accident. Melbourne

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 4

A fatal boxing con[?] has occurred at [?] the vic[?] being a soldier named Rogers, and his opp[?]ent is named Copperwa[?]…

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Fatal Boxing Accident. Melbourne

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

A fatal boxing con[?]t has occurred at Bal[?]rst, the victim being a soldier named Rogers, and his opp[?]t in named Copperwaite…

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Railway Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

A railway porter named Frank Allen noticed a boy attempting to open the door of a carriage of a moving train at the Central Railway Station:…

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Fatality at Tingha

The Inverell Argus · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 2

On Saturday morning at Tingha, while Dulcie Darby, aged 4, was playing round a fire in the open, her clothes caught fire, and she was fatally burnt,…

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A Railway Fatality. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 2

Five persons were killed and 30 injured through the derailment of a Cherborg train at Bernay…

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A Dreadful Fatality. Caused by Acetylene Gas

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 2

A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred to a young man named Herbert J. A. Wells, employed in Mr. C. Adam's surveyor's camp at Maidenhead on…

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Fatal and Serious Accident. Two Brothers Drowned

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 7

News of a shocking drowning fatality reaches us from Ashford whereby two brothers named Parvis James Dunman, aged 31 years and Talbot Scott aged…

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Racing Fatality. Melbourne

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

T. Lees, rider of Simon Be [?]ontorit in the [?] Handicap at the Findon Hunt Club [?] on Saturday, who was injured through the…

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Czar's Motor in Collision. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

The Gear, whilst motoring with his family near Friedberg. Germany, came twice in collision with a waggon, and was thrown into a ditch,…

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Railway Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

Twenty-five people were inj[?] Paris by a railway accident t[?] the express dashing into the [?] Seventeen English passengers [?]…

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Double Drowning Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 4

A sad double drowning fatality occurred on Sunday (says a wire from Inverell), when Talbot Scott Dunham (29) and Purvis James Dunham…

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Trains in Collision. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 5

Two trains came into collision at the head of Wabash Valley line, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 25 persons being killed…

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Fatal Railway Collision. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 5

The Rome-Vienna express dashed into another express while standing at a railway station, with the result that seven people were killed and 31…

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Trams in Collision. West Australia

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 5

A collision occurred at Perth between two electric trams. No one was dangerously hurt, but many passengers received minor injuries…

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Drowning Fatality at Rocky Dam

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 26 September 1910 · page 2

An accident, sad in itself, and particularly sad in its attendant circumstances, took place on the morning of Sunday, 18th instant, within a few…

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Shooting Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 27 September 1910 · page 2

Mr. H. Bright, who is in charge of the electric plant at Thomas' dredge on the Mitchell River, was recently the victim of a serious accident. It…

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Accident at Colliery

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 27 September 1910 · page 2

A fall of stone in the Stanford [?] thyr Colliery buried a miner [?] Evans. Strong rescue parties are v[?]ing to release the imprisoned man. [?]…

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How It Happened. Experts' Opinions on the Accident

Guyra Argus · Thursday 29 September 1910 · page 5

Experts do not differ much as to the cause of the accident One says: "In this case it is impossible to hold either the machine or the aviator entirely…

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Serious Burning Accident. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 5

[?] Mary King,39, a resident of [?] was carrying a [?] lamp across the kitchen [?] and fell. The lamp…

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Our Wires. Terrible Fatality Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 October 1910 · page 5

A shocking accident occurred at the Municipal Council's Electric Lighting Station, Pyrmont, to-day. Five men were working on a…

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