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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

20 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers

A Fatal Accident

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 3

One reade nearly every day of accident, resulting fatally through the negligence of some person or other, yet few teem to realise that an attack of indigestion left unchecked…

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A Boating Fatality

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 2

A boating fatality occurred at Gladstone, Queensland, by which John Braddock, the secretary of the Central Queensland Lind Corporation, and Brooke-Smith, accountant…

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Bathing Accident

The Moree News · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 4

News comes form Newcastle of a shocking double drowning fatality there on Saturday afternoon, at the ladies bathing place, A bon 3 o'clock two girls, Rose Sutcliffe (14) and…

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Terrible Coach Accident. the Driver Killed by a Fallen Tree

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 2

As Keongh's mail coach was proceeding to Tarec (says a Laurieton correspondent to the "Maitland Mercury") from Port Macquarie, and when…

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Serious Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 4

AT 6 o'clock last Sunday evening Edward Hardy left his home at Manilla to proceed to his step father' camp at New Mexico. He rode his favorite…

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Serious Railway Collision. a New Zealand Sensation. Four Persons Killed and Forty Injured

The Moree News · Friday 17 March 1899 · page 4

The most appalling railway accident that has taken place in the history of the colony occurred on Saturday night at Ra[?]While an excursion train…

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Collision at Sea

Manilla Express · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 3

The British steamer Kingswell collided recently with the Turkish ship Maria in the Mediteranean. As a result of the impact, the Turkish…

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Train Fatality

Manilla Express · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 3

A lady was killed whilst alighting from a train at Arncliff last evening…

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Mining Fatality

Manilla Express · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 3

Two miners were killed at So[?]ula by the roof of the tunnel falling in…

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A Mysterious Fatality. a Contraotor's Brains Blown Out

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 4

On Saturday morning Mr. Francis Poidevin, who id doing a large contract on Ihs Yalbraith-road, Taralga, was found in his tent with his brains…

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Latest Cables. LONDON, Monday. Accident to Towns

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1899 · page 2

Tonne, the Hunter River Sculler, collided with a boat on the Thames, and two of his ribs were smashed…

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An Accidental Rhyme

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 1

Id the old days of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, an actor opined Dewar went one morning to the premises of a publican named Scott, patronised by the…

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Fearful Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 3

A terrible accident has occurred at Reid's sawmills, Orara River, near Grafton. A workman, aged 60, whose name has not yet transpired, was…

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Carriage Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 3

Mrs. Gladstone was thrown from her carriage and is suffering from nervous shock…

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A Terrible Accident

The Moree News · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 1

The love of sensation now-a-days takes newspaper men into strange flights of descriptive writing. The following is among the latest…

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Strange Railway Accident

The Moree News · Tuesday 8 August 1899 · page 1

Whilst the Manchester express train was passing Grutland Station (London) at full speed on Thursday last, the large driving wheel of the locomotive became…

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Harbor Collision

Manilla Express · Saturday 12 August 1899 · page 5

A collision occurred last night between two North Shore ferry boats, but no casualties occurred…

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Drowned in the Flood

The Moree News · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 4

On Friday last, Harold Dargenral (17) f[?]ll in the river at Wool Maitland, [?]ar the Water Brigade boat-shed, and was swept away before help…

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Drowning Fatality

Manilla Express · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 5

Two girls have been accidently drowned in a dam near their father's residence near Canowindra…

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Found Drowned

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 December 1899 · page 1

THE Sydney City Coroner (Mr. J. C Moore) conducted an inquiry at the South Morgue on Friday last touching the death of Daniel Munroe, aged 33…

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