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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Found Drowned

Manilla Express · Wednesday 27 August 1902 · page 2

ON Thursday last Mr. E. Margolius, storekeeper at Barraba, wandered away. A search was made but without result, and the continued absence…

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Found Drowned

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 3

An open verdict bus loan returned at the inquest touching the death of a domestic servant named Olive Paulson, whose body was found on the bench…

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Charing Cross Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 3

A railway collision occurred at Charing Cross station, London. The Glasgow cars telescoped, and twenty five persons were injured. The signal…

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By Cable. a Village Destroyed. 200 Persons Drowned. London

The Moree News · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 2

The [?], Mount Polee, on the Franch-owned West Indian Island of Martinique, was the scene of a terrible eruption on Saturday night…

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Where Accidents Happen

Manilla Express · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 3

According to the experience of the accident insurance companies, about the safest place for a man to be is in a train or aboard an ocean…

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Shooting Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1902 · page 2

[?] a man man named Charles Blattman was out wallaby shooting near Gosford, his gun went off, the contents entering his leg which was…

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An Extraordinary Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 10 September 1902 · page 2

An extraordinary, tram car accident occurred in Glasgow. Owing to an accidents to the brake the car dashed down a hill on the wrong track…

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Special Express Wires. Through Reuter Sydney, Tuesday. Tram Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

A petty officer of the flagship Royal Arthur was knocked down and killed by a tram in George-street last night…

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Mailboat Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 2

Just before the American mail boat sailed yesterday the gangway collapsed whit crowded with visitors who wet just stepping as home. There were…

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Another Rifle Fatality

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 2

John Box, aged nineteen, was found dead near his residence, in the Albury district, with a rifle across his body. It is supposed that the deceased slipped, thus causing the…

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A Baloon Fatality

Manilla Express · Wednesday 15 October 1902 · page 3

Debradsky, the inventor of a steerable baloon, ascended at Paris with a friend. The car rope broke at an altitude of 400 feet. Both men were…

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Special Express Wires. Through Reuter. Sydney. Train Collision

Manilla Express · Wednesday 29 October 1902 · page 2

Two trains came into collision last night at Lindfield station on the Milson's Point line. The engines were telescoped. Fortunately, there…

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Buggy Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 29 October 1902 · page 2

ON Sunday last Mrs. C. P. Smith, of Rowan-street, accompanied by Miss Melville, paid a visit to Mrs. Jas. Moore, at "The Woolshed," where…

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Collision

Manilla Express · Wednesday 5 November 1902 · page 2

A collision occurred off Dungeners between the collier St. Regneus and a Spanish steamer. The latter sank and 22 of the crew were drowned…

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Collision at Sea

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 3

The North German steamer Kelantin collided with another vessel in the Siam waters. The former rank…

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Tramway Fatality

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 2

A tramway fireman named Hosketh was killed at Bondi. The body was crushed in a terrible manner between the ballast track and engine. Death was instantaneous…

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Railway Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 10 December 1902 · page 2

The Halifax to Montreal train was derailed, find several were killed and injured…

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Found Drowned

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1902 · page 2

Two boys named Edgar Thomson and William M. Gregor, aged eight and eleven years respectively, were dworned at Gundagai on Saturday…

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