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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Fatality at Newtown

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 4

IT was reported to the Newtown police on Monday morning that Bertha Anu Olorenshaw, 28, and her three months old infant, had been drowned in a bath…

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A Fearful Smash. American Railway Disaster. Excursion Train in Collision Sixty Lives Lost

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 5

The Washington correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" gives full particulars of a shocking railway accident, the subject of a cable…

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Accidents

The Moree News · Tuesday 26 March 1907 · page 2

During the past week three accidents, of a more or less serious nature, occurred in the town and district. The first occurred at Boomi on Tuesday…

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A Street Fatality

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 4

THE case against Robert Johnson, who was charged at the Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, with having caused the death of Ellen Margaret…

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Country Visitor Injured

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 4

A 13-YEAR OLD boy named Austin Lequesne fell from a second storey window of the Grand Central Coffee Palace into Clarence-street, Sydney,…

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Bomb in a Bank Death for Refusing a Loan. Two Killed and 24 Injured. Scene of Devastation

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 7

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" gives [?] particulars of the shocking occurrence which was cabled at the time:--…

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A Serious Accident

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 4

A VERY serious accident happened to young Allen Reibelt, a ten-year-old son of Mr. Thos. Reibelt, of Wallabadah, on Monday evening last. It appears…

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Sad Burning Fatality

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 4

Good Friday will long be remembered by at least one family in our midst, for on that cruel death called for its own in a tragic manner the infant…

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Accident at Quipolly

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 4

A RATHER nasty accident, which might have been attended with still more serious results, happened to Mr. W. Schofield, at the Quipolly sports on…

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Fatal Boating Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 2

THE sailing boat Kia Ora was struck by a squall outside the Heads on Sunday and capsized. Of nine occupants two, Harry Jackson aged…

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Serious Burning Accident. in Moree

The Moree News · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 2

Profound regret was expressed in town yesterday when it was reported that Mrs. F. C. Deakina (wife of Mr. F. C. Deakine, dentist, of Heber…

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Fatal Accident at Curlewis

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 4

AN enquiry was conducted at the Curlewis Hotel into the circumstances attending the death of James Wilson, a farm laborer, who met his death on…

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Accidents at the Show

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 4

WHILST competing in tho Maiden Hunter event at the local show on Wednesday afternoon last, one of the horses, who failed to negotiate the…

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Lady D. Cuthbert's Death Her Husband's Evidence. Verdict--pure Accident. General Sympathy

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 3

Brilliant sunshine poured on Beaufront Castle, Hexham, yesterday, 1st February, but within all was gloom and sadness for the tragedy of Lady…

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America's Accidents. a Preacher's Statement

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 3

A correspondent of the Washington "Evening Star" wrote from New York on 5th January:— "Fifty-seven thousand five hundred…

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Aeroplane Accident. a French Sensation

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 7

A slight accident occurred at Vincennes on 28th February during the trial of M. Leon Delagrange's aeroplane -- the largest machine yet built on the box-kite…

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A Serious Accident

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 4

A RATHER serious accident happened Mr. Harold Richardson, a junior porter at the local railway station on Wednesday morning last. It appears that…

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Painful Accident

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 4

A RATHER serious accident happened to Mr. Henry Taylor at Terrible Vale, the other day. It appears that while Taylor was out chasing a bullock on…

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Lady D. Cuthbert's Death Her Husband's Evidence. General Sympathy. Verdict -- Pure Accident

The Moree News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 4

Brilliant sunshine poured on [?]from Castle [?]yesterday [?]February, [?]within all was [?]and [?]for the tragedy[?]…

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Railway Accident. LONDON

Manilla Express · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 2

A railway pier collapsed at Marland, America. Eight people were killed and eighteen injured…

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