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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 2

While returning home from Manilla on Tuesday night in a sulky, Mrs. Thos. Hall met with an accident at Spring…

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Took Prussic Accident. New Zealand

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 5

Captain Herbert Jones visited Avondale Hospital yesterday to see a friend, Mrs Ellen Webster. While conversing alone, they both…

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Taxi Cab Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 5

A taxi cab, with two passengers, swerved and was carried over an embankment near Macquarie lighthouse, Watson's Bay, last night…

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Drowned in the Peel. an Emigrant From Scotland

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 1

The Coroner, Mr. H. S. Hawkins, held an inquest at the Court House yesterday concerning the death of a man named John McEwen, who had not been long in the…

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Fatal Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 2

George Hogg, 19 years of age, employed at a battery in Coolgardie (W.A.), met with a shucking death on Tuesday. He was caught in a…

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Victorian Railway Catastrophe. Eight Killed, Thirty Injured. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 3

Two suburban trains collided at Richmond, Victoria, during a heavy fog. Eight passengers were killed and between twenty and thirty injured…

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Railway Smash Near Melbourne. Eleven Persons Killed and Many Injured

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 2

About 9 o'clock yesterday morning just as the Brighton train was on the move out of Richmond Railway Station (Vic.), on its journey to Melbourne, the Windsor express…

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Railway Collision. Nine People Killed. About Thirty Injured Melbourne

Manilla Express · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 2

The 8.30 train this morning from Brighton Beach was standing at Richmond Station when the 8.3[?] train from E[?]ster[?]wick dashed into…

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Rich Mond Railway Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 27 July 1910 · page 2

The Premier states there is likely to be important developments in connection with the Richmond railway disaster…

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Fatal Accident at Midkin

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 4

A second fatal accident occurred on Wednesday when a young Englishman named Clive Gordon Maguire. who had recently arrived in tho district…

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Aeroplane Fatality

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 2

Mrs. Fr[?] flying in an aeroplane near Sunderland, England, touched the top of a flagstaff. The machine turned turtle, hurling the woman thirty feet to the ground,…

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Railway Collision

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 2

In a railway collision in London 30 people were killed…

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The Midkin fatality

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 2

The Coroner (Mr. [?] P.M.), held an enquiry on Saturday, the 30ch ult. into the [?] attending the death of Clyde Gordon…

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Fatal Railway Collision

Manilla Express · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 2

A railway collision has occurred in London, by which 30 were killed…

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Accident

Manilla Express · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 2

Mr Donald Macdonald, of Clydesville, met with a painful accident on Friday last, when a heavy log rolled on his foot, injuring the ankle…

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Nasty Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 2

Mr Northcote' s 10-year-old son received a nasty gash in the leg, while playing with about a dozen other boys at the railway turn-table…

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Nasty Accident

Manilla Express · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 4

Mr Northcote's 10-year-old Son received a nasty gash in the leg, while playing with about a dozen other boys at the railway turn-table…

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Burning Fatality

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1910 · page 3

A socking burning fatality occurred near Wallsend on Sunday night, when Mrs. Mary Ann Buxton, aged 69, and her granddaughter, Myrtle Buxton, aged 1 year and…

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Accident at Central Railway

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

A railway ported, named Frank Allen, noticed a boy attempting to open the door of a carriage of a moving train at the Central Railway Station. He caught the offender…

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Brisbane, Tuesday. Surf Bathing Fatality

Manilla Express · Wednesday 7 September 1910 · page 2

This season's first surfing fatality happened when John Hobson and Valentine Murteth were drowned at…

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