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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Drowning Fatalities. Railway Employee's Death

Northern Star · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 3

News was received in Lismore yesterday afternoon of a drowning accident at Booyong, by which a young man named Walter Brown, a railway employee, lost his…

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A Fatality Feared. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 3

A boat containing a pair of [?]oots and two oars was washed ashore at Manly yesterday afternoon, and a fatality is feared…

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Fatal Accident. Droken Hail Wrecks a Train

Northern Star · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 3

SHARON (North Dakota), Sunday. A Great Northern train was wrecked last night. Six persons were killed and thirteen injured. The disaster was due to a…

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Terrible Experience. Triple Drowning Fatality. Watching This Victims Sinking. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 5

A terrible drowning fatality occurred at Como, Georges River, this morning. It appears that four young men named Edwin Ostenfeld, 17, Oscar McAlpin, 18, Roy…

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The Booyong Fatality

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 4

The body of Walter Brown, the victim of the Booyong drowning fatality, remained unrecovered up to a late hour yesterday evening. The search is being…

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Very Previous Warning. Aeronautic Accidents Repudiated. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 5

The Department will accept no liability for accidents in connection with the work of Australian aeronauts in the employ of the Government…

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Accident to Mr. Redmond. London

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 5

Mr. W. Redmond will be incapacitated a fortnight through a carriage accident…

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Accident at Sports

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 5

At the Caledonian sports held at Murwillumbah yesterday a painful accident happened to Henry Stranger, a labourer, who attempted to walk across the track…

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Booyong Drowning Fatality

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 5

The body of Walter Brown, a railway employee, who was drowned at Booyong on Sunday morning at about 11 o'clock, was recovered yesterday. A search had…

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Drowning Disaster. Fate of an Aquatic Sport. Drowned Before Thousands. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 5

While three men were giving an exhibition on the water at Lyttleton (New Zealand) regatta yesterday, one of them got into difficulties. A second man went to…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 4

Our Lower River correspondent writes:— The Wardell ran a very pleasant excursion to Coraki races on New Year's Day, about 150 excursionists being on board. The…

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Cricketer Injured. Motor Car and Cycle Collide. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 5

A collision occurred in Moore Park today between a motor car, containing four people, and a motor cycle, ridden by the Rev. E. F. Waddy, the well-known…

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Tragedy at Casino. Step Brother and Sister Shot. Was It Accidental?

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 4

Yesterday evening at about five o'clock quite a sensation was created in Casino, when the tragic deaths of Mrs. Perkins, of West-street, and her step brother, aged 10…

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Shocking Accident. Three Little Children Burnt to Death. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 5

Three little children at Leicester, aged five, four, and two, were left in a bedroom while their parents were working. A fire broke out, the bed was burng, and all…

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Riding Accident

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 4

Yesterday morning Mr. M. Campbell, of the Richmond River Butchering Co., met with on accident at South Lismore, and narrowly escaped serious injury. In the…

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Little Girl Drowned

Northern Star · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

Further particulars of the sad case of drowning at Elliott River, Bundaberg, mentioned in yesterday's "Star" are taken from the Brisbane "Courier'' as under:—…

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Peculiar Accident

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

An accident that might have had a serious ending occurred at the Lawrence wharf on Wednesday (says the Grafton "Examiner.") It appears that…

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Motor Accident

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

An accident, which fortunately was attended with less serious consequences than might have been the case, befel Mr. Douglas and Mr. A. Mullett, of the…

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Shooting Accident at Toogoolawah

Northern Star · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 4

An unfortunate shooting accident happened on Sunday morning, when Richard Hosking, 16 years of ago, son of Mr. W. H. Hosking, wheelwright, Toogoolawah,…

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Team Accident. Car Runs Along the Road. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 9

An extraordinary accident occurred in William-street this morning, when a loaded tram car, after colliding with a lorry, jumped from the rails and shot fully fifty…

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