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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Engine Beyond Control. Serious Accident on Southern Line

The Tenterfield Courier and District Advocate · Monday 2 March 1914 · page 4

A serious smash occurred at Werai, on the Southern line, on Thursday morning. It appears an engine attached to a…

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T[?]atal Accidents

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 6

There we[?] to [?] at [?] on Monday. Will[?] employed [?] a c[?] [?] li[?] at the [?] was…

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Accident at Cl[?]ton

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 6

The c[?] paper states that an [?] o[?] to a lad, Sa[?] Hea[?]y. aged a[?] on Monday afternoon. It app[?] the [?] was mo[?]ted on…

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Hanged by Accident

Guyra Argus · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 6

Accidental death was the verdict returned at an inquest at Tipton, Staffordshire, recently on Thomas Shake, who came by his end in remarkable fashion. He was found hanging to the latch of his door, and…

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Man Drowned Near Mungindi

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 6

The body of James Dunn who was employed on the Railway Construction Works, was found floating in the McIntyre River under a tree near…

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Nasty Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 2

Whilst Mrs. James H. Lockwood was driving her little daughter, Nita to Kmmaville to consult Dr. Muscio, the swinglebar came off the sulky,…

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Accidentally Poisoned

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 2

On Thursday morning a little girl named Ivy Margaret Kennedy, aged a year and ten months, secured a bottle containing rheumatism liniment,…

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Accident to Hawker

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 6

A brilliant fight by Harry Hawker from the Albury racecourse on Saturday afternoon ended in an accident through the engine stopping…

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Shocking Railway Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 6

A shocking railway fatality occurred at West Maitland last sight shortly after 7 o.clock, when an elderly woman nameh Mrs. Alice…

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A Nasty Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 6

During the progress of the jumping contest for boys on the opening day of the show on Tuesday Master Jack McRac, son of Mr. Duncan McRae, of…

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Collision

The Inverell Times · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 2

Some excitement was caused at the corner of Evans and Otho-streets on Wednesday afternoon by a collision between a bicycle and a delivery van…

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Browning Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday. A [?] [?] and by [?] [?] in a [?] [?] The [?]…

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Street Accident at [?]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 8

Two [?] were [?] at a [?] [?] rate [?] more [?] the [?] of the [?]…

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North Sydney Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 March 1914 · page 6

The inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Harold Taylor, which occurred at St. Leonard's Park, North Sydney, last Friday night,…

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Railway Smash. 14 KILLED. 6 Seriously Injured. Sydney, Saturday 9.20 a.m

The Tenterfield Courier and District Advocate · Monday 16 March 1914 · page 3

The Temora mail train which left Sydney at eight o'clock last night with a full complement of passengers crashed into a stationary goods train…

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Dreadful Railway Disaster. Big Loss of Life. Fourteen Killed and Many injured. Heartrending Scenes. SYDNEY, Saturday Morning

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 16 March 1914 · page 2

The Temora mail train, which left Sydney at 8 o'clock last Hight with a full complement of passengers dashed into a stationary goods train…

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Awful Railway Accident. 14 Passengers Killed. Sydney

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 16 March 1914 · page 2

A railway disaster occurred at midnight at Exeter, near Moss Yale. The Temora mail train crashed into a stationary goods train…

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Latest News. Railway Smash. Fourteen Killed and 16 INJURED

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 17 March 1914 · page 2

No more terrible accident than that which occurred at Exter shortly before midnight on Friday has ever saddened the history of…

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Fatal Kiding Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1914 · page 2

Fr[?] the [?] [?] the [?] that a [?] [?]. H[?] [?] [?]. H[?] it [?]…

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