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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Telegraphic News. Rescue of Drowning Bather. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 3

Whilst surf bathing at Cave Point yesterday, a man named Millard and a youth named Ritchie were carried out by the undertow and nearly drowned. George…

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Drowned in a Swamp. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 3

An unknown middle aged man has been found dead in a swamp at North Botany. It is belived he lost his way and waded through about an acre of water three feet…

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Drowning Fatalities. Well-known Tweed Resident One of the Victims. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 3

Or Saturday night the town was shocked when the news was bruited abroad that Mr. James McMahon, brother to Councillor P. McMahon, and a well-known…

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Fatal Accident

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 2

ON Sunday [?] at a[?] 4.15 p.m., an [?] hopp[?]ed near Carrington Park. Casino, when was attracted with fatal [?] to h[?]t app[?]…

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Fatal Accident with a Refle. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 3

A young man named Harry Fitch, jun., has died at the Grenfell Hospital from the effects of a buliet wound. He was driving in a sulky with the rifle…

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Fatal Accident at Casino. Man Killed by Overturning Cart

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 3

Our Casino correspondent wrote yesterday.— Yesterday about 4 p.m. an accident happened near Currfngton Park which was…

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Seaman Drowned. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 5

As the steamer Macleay was proceeding outwards from the clarence River, when two miles below Maclean, a seaman named Alfred Lake, while arranging some tackling…

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Collision in North Sea. Ship Sunk. London, Monday afternoon

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 5

The iron salling vessel Margretha, of Hamburg, sank in the North Sea, after colliding with the Norwegian steamer Mascot. The captain, his wife, and child and seven…

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Telegraphic News. Serious Accident. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 5

A youth named John Stewart, aged 19 years, met with a serious accident while scrub falling at Tyalgum yesterday. Portion of a tree fell on his head…

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Drowning Fatalities

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 2

On Saturday night news reached Murwillumbah that Mr J. M'Mahon, brother of Councillor P. M'Mahon, and a well-known cane-grower, has…

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A Gambler's End. Drowned in the Surf. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 3

At the inuqest on the body of Frank Laing, found in the surf at Bodi, the deceased's sister deposed that he was a gambler, and had spent money that had…

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Railway Accident. Train Dashes Into Station. Five People Killed. London

Northern Star · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 3

The Canadian Pacific and Boston express dashed at a speed of forty miles an hour into the Windsor-street station. Montreal, and ploughed over the platform, and…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Thain Runs Over Shunter. Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 3

Wm. Wilson, aged 40, a shunter employed at Darling Harbour, was run over by a train to-day, and one leg completely severed, while the other was badly crushed…

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Drowning Fatality on the Tweed

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 8

ON Saturday, night Murwillumbah was shocked when the news was bruited abroad that Mr. James McMahon, brother to Councillor P. McMahon, a well-known…

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Drowned on the Clarence

Northern Star · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 7

The steamer Macleay left Maclean for Sydney on Tuesday about 11 a.m., and when about two miles from the twon a seamun named Alfred Lake, who was fixing…

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Current Events. Seaman Drowned

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 4

SHORTLY after the North Coast Company's steamer left Maclean on Tuesday, an able seaman named Lake, who was attending to a derrick rope,…

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Fatal Kindness. the Redfern Bridge Fatality. How John Roberts Was Killed. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 7

A. cabman named Hugh Fleming was placed on trial at the Criminal Court on a charge of having maliciously slain John Roberts, aged 8…

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Sunday Sensations. a River Fatality

Northern Star · Monday 22 March 1909 · page 2

Yesterday, a young man named Horace Frederick Durrant, aged 23, was unfortunately drowned. He was a carpenter employed by Mr. Hughes, builder, [?]…

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