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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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Fatal Accident

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 4

J. Coyle, mining engineer, and secondclass passenger on the steamer Kanowna from Melbourne to Western Australia, fell down the smoking room steps aboard that…

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Latest Cablegrams. French Premier Fired At. Another Minister Injured. Paris

Northern Star · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 3

A man named Gisoline, who was formerly a law clerk at Buyonne, fired two shots from the gallery of the Chamber at the Premier, M. Briand…

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Accidents

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 4

WHILE driving in Dalley-st. on Monday Captain McAulay met with a peculiar accident. It appears a cart was standing in the street near Mr…

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Accident at Harrison's Crossing

Northern Star · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 2

Particulars of an accident at Harrison's Crossing, Hanging Rock Crock, on Saturday last were received in Lismore yesterday. The creek was up, owing to the…

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Accident

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 4

ON Saturday last an accident, that might have been fraught with more serious consequences, happened to a daughter of Mr. S. Blanch, of Irvington. It appears Mr…

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The Accident at Rosebank

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 2

Joseph Berry, who was the victim of an accident at Rosebank on Monday, is making satisfactory progress in the Lismore Hospital. The accident occurred through…

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Motor Accident. a Girl Killed. Adelaide

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 3

A serious motor accident occurred between 8 and 9 o'clock last night at Lyndoch. A motor car driven by Mr. Bert May, carrying his wife, his sister-in-law,…

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Painful Accident

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 4

FRANK SCROOPE, the infant son of Senior-constable Scroope, a former popular officer stationed Woodburn, met with a serious accident while…

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Accident to Railway Workers

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 9

An express dashed into a gang of platelayers at Battersbea and three were Killed and two injured…

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Railway Collision. Bravery of Officials. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 3

A serious collision occurred at Redfern railway station early this morning. Two coupled runaway engines crashed into ten standing empty carriages. The pointsmen…

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Torpedo Boat Accident. Stockholm

Northern Star · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 3

The torpedo boat Vestn, which started for Karlskrona at noon on her trial trip, is missing. A search was made up to midnight, but proved fruitless…

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Accident

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 2

ON Thursday last Cr. Knapman, of Coombell, underwent a slight but painful operation in St. Margaret's Private Hospital, South Casino. Some months are while…

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Accident

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 4

A young man named Walter Heydon was admitted to the Hospital last evening with a broken leg. He is employed at the Byron Bay creamery, and during the…

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Tram Fatality. Driver Committed for Trail. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

The inquest concerning the death of William Wright, who died as the result of injuries between, a trow and a cab which he was driving, concluded to-day…

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Racecourse Accident. Melbourne

Northern Star · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 3

A jockey named Koops was badly hurt, and the racehorse Maples killed, while schooling horses over the fences at Flemington to-day…

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Floods on the Tweed. Young Man Drowned. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 9

Rain set in yesterday and continued all day and night. This morning the wind was blowing half a gale and showers descended in driving torrents. Rain seems general,…

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Collision at Sea. London

Northern Star · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 3

The steamer Beacon Grange collided with and cut a depth of five feet into the steamer Ruahine above the water line at Las Palmas, Canary Islands…

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Drowned While Crossing a Creek. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 3

The body of a young man named Roy Fowlor, employed in a surveyer's camp at Dunbible, who was washed off his horse in crossing a creek yesterday during a flood,…

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Dangers of Surf Bathing. Four Persons Drowned. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 3

Coogee Ray was the scene of a sensational fatal accident to-day. Six women and five men. who were surf bathing, got into difficulties, and were quickly carried…

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Two Girls Drowned. Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 3

Two girls named Ada Stansheld, aged 17 years, and Vera Marriner, aged 8 years, werd drewned while bathing at Mount's Bay…

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