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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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Late Telegrams. Collapse of a Balcony at Quirindi. Many Persons Injured. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 10 August 1901 · page 5

At Quirindi last night, while polo prizes were being distributed, a hotel balcony collapsed and 150 persons were precipitated into the street. Many were injured, some seriously. Doctors…

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The Oakland-Sarah Hixson Collision. Court of Marine Inquiry

Northern Star · Saturday 24 August 1901 · page 5

BEFORE Judge Backhouse and Captains C. Taylor and D. Dakin, assessors in Sydney on Tuesday the Court of Marine Inquiry investigated the circumstances attending a collision…

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Oakland-Sarah Hixson Collision

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 5

IN the Marine Court of inquiry in Sydney on Friday, before Judge Backhouse, and Captains D. Dakin and Charlea Taylor, assessors. As the result of the investigation into the…

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The Fatality on the St. George. the Inquiry Resumed

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 4

THE adjourned inquiry, commenced last Friday, into the cunse of the death of Christopher Relling, the unfortunate lamp-trimmer of the St. George, who was killed by a fall down that…

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Oakland - Sarah Hixson Collision

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 6

THE Court of Marino Inquiry sat on Friday last for further consideration of the circumstances attending a collision between the steamers Oakland and…

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Accident to Brooklyn Bridge

Northern Star · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 7

THREE was a break on July 25 (the San Francisco "Chronicle" reports) in the structural steel works of the Brooklyn Bridge, the most serious in the history of…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1901 · page 5

ON Monday morning last Mr. Chas. Brooker, of Alstonville, was riding along, driving a team of 14 bullocks, when the horse he was mounted on started backing on a cutting, and…

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Bathing Fatality at Yamba. a Man Drowned

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 October 1901 · page 5

THE Grafton Grin says: A tragical cuse of drowning occurred at Yumba on Sunday. Mr. Turner, of the Public Works Department, accompanied by Captain Allen, or the s.s…

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The Accident to the Monowai

Northern Star · Wednesday 30 October 1901 · page 5

THE Monowai arrived at Port Chalmers at 8.30 a.m. on Friday. She broke down two days out from the Bluff. The steamer struck something with the…

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A Boy Drowned

Northern Star · Saturday 9 November 1901 · page 2

A SAD case of drowning occurred near East Maitland on Saturday afternoon last when Thomas Joseph Connolly, aged 12 years, Bon of Thomas Connolly of…

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Killed by Lightning. Fatality on a Cricket Ground

Northern Star · Saturday 7 December 1901 · page 3

ONE of the most unfortunate incidents in connection with the atmospheric disturbances which were evidenced in the city and suburbs on Saturday was the death of…

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