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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

280 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 14

Tram Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 January 1914 · page 4

A rear end tram collision occurred at Rushcutters Bay last night, when seven persons were more or less seriously injured, while a number of…

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Latest Telegraphic News Drowning Fatalities SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 5 January 1914 · page 2

Rev. F. A. Wellborn of St. Paul's Church, Deniliquin, has been found drowned in the river. Deceased, who was an inmate of the hospital…

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Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 5 January 1914 · page 2

On Saturday morning Mr. G. D. Franklin met with accident, which might have been much more serious than it was. It appears he was…

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Accident

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 5
Also in Glen Innes Examiner

R. M. Corden, manager of the Com mercial Bank, Stanthorpe, met with a very serious accident on Christmas Day, as a result of which he sustained…

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A Dreadful Fatality. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 12 January 1914 · page 2

While Harry Ferry, a railway, ganger, and his wife and two children were returning home on a railway tricycle at Merton Victoria, they…

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Bike Collision

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 4

On Tuesday two young men named Marc and Fred Condon met with a rather serious accident. They were riding bikes. Mark was coming into…

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Serious Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 4

A serious accident befel a man named Ashburn, employed as tailor out at Mr. Lonsdale's saw mill at Glen Elgin on Tuesday afternoon. It…

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Shocking Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 13

Brisbane, Monday.— Mrs. Williams wife of a [?]ector living near Hell, in the De[?] district, was driving yesterday ro spring cast with her…

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D[?] Eng Fatality Near Clifton

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 14

The Clifton correspondent of the Toowoomba "Chronicle" writes:—About 1 o'clock on Sunday a young man named Victor Strang was…

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Serious Motor Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 12

A sensational motor accident cccurred recently at Mount Cootha, otherwise knoen as One-tree Hill, a suburb of Brisbane. A party of…

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Painful Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 14

On Sunday afternoon Mr. Thos. Rose was coming from sugarical to Rockvale, leading a horse. At one stage of the journey the letter pulled…

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Brother and Sister Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 6

Mary Godfrey, aged 16, and James Godfrey, aged 11, were drowned in the Campaspe River (Victoria). The boy stepped into deep water while…

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Peculiar Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 19 January 1914 · page 3

Mr. Perry, of Mullengudgery station, Nyngan, bad to proceed to Sydney last week, on the advice of the local doctor, through sustaining a…

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Terrible Railway Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1914 · page 2

A shocking railway accident occurred near Mur[?] on Saturday week. Harry Ferry, a railway ganger, with his wife and two children, were…

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Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 21 January 1914 · page 3

How true and sad it is that "in the midst of life we are in death," which was so poignantly realised in the sad drowning fatality which occurred at…

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Shocking Drowning Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 2

A large waterhole, situated at the junction of the Burying Ground Creek and Commissioners' Waters, some eight miles from Armidale (says the…

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The Recent Drowning Fatality. the Ill-fated Youth's Funeral

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 6

The funeral of the unfortunate victim of Sunday's drowning fatality—Dudley Gardiner—took place on Tuesday morning, the remains being laid…

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Three Children Drowned

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 8

James Godfrey, aged 11, and another boy were bathing in a lagoon near Rochester (Victoria), when the former flipped into deep water. His…

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Three Men Drowned

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 3

Ipswich, Sunday. — Information was received in Ipswich to-night of a boating disaster near Sugar's quarry, in the Brisbane River, when three…

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