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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Twelve Horses Fall. Six Jockeys Injured. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 22 March 1909 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at Rosehill yesterday when twelve horses fell in the Trial Stakes. All Blue came down, and in a few…

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This Drowning Fatality

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 2

The body, of the young man Durrant drowned on Sunday had not ticen recovered up to last evening, it is thought the water weeds are holding it down…

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Aboriginal Child Drowned. Grafton

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 3

An aboriginal child, four years of age, named Leicester Jackson, was drowned at Newbold through falling out of a boat…

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Latest Cablegrams. Accident to Workmen. Several Killed and Many. Injured. London, Sunday Afternoon

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 3

As a number of Messrs. Vickers, Maxim, and Sons' workmen at Barrow were passing from the vanpuard to tho wharf, the gangway collapsed, precipitating fifty from…

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Condition of Injured Jockey Clayton. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 3

The condition of Clayton, the Injured Jockey, in regarded an, very serious…

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Drowning Fatality

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 4

The body of the young man Horace Frederick Ourrant, who was drowned in Wilson's Creek, just, below the Woodlawn railway station, on Sunday, was…

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Drowned in the River

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 3

HORACE FREDERICK DURRANT, a young robust Englishman, was on Sunday afternoon the victim of a drowning accident, which has many sad features…

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Train Accident

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 2

Damage, estimated at £5000, was caused this morning through the couplings of the wheel of a heavily laden coal train giving way and…

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Railway Accident. Coal Train Runs Over Dead End. Thirteen Trucks Destroyed. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 3

A serious accident occurred at Newcastie when the couplings of a truck near an engine that was hauling to the coal hoist a full train of loaded coal waggons gave…

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Woodlawn Drowning Fatality. Coroner's Inquiry

Northern Star · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 2

A magisterial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death od Horace, Frederick Durrunt, which occurred on Sunday, was held by the District Coroner…

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Pea Rifle Accident

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1909 · page 4

Another sufferer through the dangerous pea rifle was conveyed to the Ballina Hospital on Tuesday night Two boys named Lovett and Elliott,…

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Tram Collision. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 29 March 1909 · page 3

Two trams collided in Goorge-street last night. Both were full of passengers who escaped serious injury. The trams were considerably damaged…

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Clergyman Injured

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1909 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from the Murwillumbah correspondent of the North Coast " Daily News" on Saturday, states:--A very sad and serious…

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Telegraphic News. Pensioner Drowned. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 1 April 1909 · page 3

A man was drowned in the harbor last night and the body has been identified as that of Thomas Butler, an old age pensioner…

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A North Sydney Sensation. Plucky Policeman.—injured Severely But Arrests Assailant. Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 3

Kirribill Point (North Sydney) was the scene of a desperate allray at an early hour this morning as the result of which Russell Sinclair, of "Ladore,"…

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Large Hat Question. Some Accidents

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 6

The London correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" draws attention to a feature of the festive season. He says the distinctive…

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A Mysterious Accident

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 6

THE Rev. L. Peacock, Methodist . Minister at Mullumbimby, and formerly of this circuit, met with a very painful accident on Friday night…

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Bad Accident at Mullumbimby

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 8

A very serious and painful accident happened to the Rev. L. Peacock on the evening of Friday (26th ultimo) as between 8 and 9 o'clock he was returning…

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Explosion on Petroleum Vessel. Number Killed and Injured. London, Friday Afternoon

Northern Star · Monday 5 April 1909 · page 3

An explosion of petroleum occurred on the vessel Jules Henri at Marseilles; which destroyed the deck durig an official inspection…

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