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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Bargain Sale Riot. Twelve Women Injured

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 2

Twelve women were seriously Injured in a bargain sale crush which developed into a riot at Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday…

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Found Drowned a London Mystery

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

On 13th March a young public-house manager named, Leonard Saught, left his lodgings at Battersea to meet a young woman to whom he was engaged…

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The Sunken Train. an American Accident. Drowned Like Rats

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 3

From New York, on 30th October, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:-- Further information falls to lessen…

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Family Accidents

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 5

An exchange says:—Died at Bourke a few weeks ago Mrs. Hatten in her 91st year. The old lady was mother of the Stock Inspector at Bourke, and…

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Rome Express Wrecked. a Midnight Collision. Ghastly Scenes

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 7

From Home on 7th October the correspondent of the London "Dally Mall" wrote:-- A terrible railway disaster occurred at…

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Restores to Sight. Two Accidents

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

A strange case of sight which was destroyed by one accident being restored by another was reported from Leeds yesterday (writes the…

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Tram Fatality

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 5

A MAN whose name is supposed to be Ibbotson, met with a terrible death at Randwick at about noon on Wednesday…

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Restores to Sight. Two Accidents

The Moree News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 4

A strange case of sight which was destroyer by one accident being restored by another was reported from loads yesterday writes the "EN…

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Tram Fatality

The Moree News · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 4

A man whose name is supposed to be Ibbontson, met with a terible death at Rendwich at about moon on Wednesday…

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Fearful Explosion. Dynamite Factory Wrecked. Eighty Persons Killed. Over Two Hundred Injured

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 2

English files to 30th November give particulars in telegrams from Berlin correspondents of the terrible disaster at Witten, Westphalia, on the 28th…

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Dreadful Fatality

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 4

A dreadful accelent occurred at the railway yards on Wednesday night, resulting in the death of a man named Harry Louis (known as Lewis), a carried…

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The Sunken Train. an American Accident. Drowned Like Rats

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 4

From New York, on 30th October, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:— Further Information falls to lessen…

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Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 6

A laborer named A. Jenners, working with Mr. Johnstone, fell off a load of wheat the other day, and put his wrist out. He went to Manilla,…

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Flood of Whisky. Ten People Injured, One Killed. Carts Caught in Deluge

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 2

The Loch Katrine Distillery, on the south side of Glasgow, was tho scene of an extraordinary accident last month (as already briefly recorded in a "Herald"…

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Burned to Ashes. End of a Railway Train. Awful Collision in America

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 7

Another railway disaster, almost as terrible in its effects as that at Washington, thrilled all America on the 2nd January, and (says the "London…

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A Shocking Fatality

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 4

A SHOCKING tragedy occurred at Mary, borough (Vic) on Sunday afternoon last, when Arthur Nancarrow, aged 5½ years, was accidentally shot by his…

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Accident at Curlewis Coal Mine

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 4

ON Thursday morning last a man named George McIntosh, employed at the Carlewis Coal Mine was crashed between a skip and a post. He was…

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Railway Collision

Manilla Express · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

An accident occurred to a stock train early on Thursday morning between Kurring-gai and" Mount Colah, three or four mile north of…

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An Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 8

Magistrate :'You are charged with breaking a chair over your wife's head.' Prisoner: 'I am very sorry, your honour, but it was an accident…

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Shocking Railway Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

OWING to the washing away of a culvert, a train was wrecked at Alkmanr (in, the Transvaal) on the Delagoa Bay Railway. Twelve…

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