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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Shunting Accident

Northern Star · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 4

On Saturday afternoon at about 4 o'clock a slight shunting accident happened at the railway station. It occurred at a Junction of the lines which are shortly to be pulled…

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Shocking Accident. Fitter's Terrible Injuries. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 5

A telephone [?] named [?] J[?]s, residing at, Canterbury, was asleep in a train last night, but on being awakened he found it moving out of Campsie station, at…

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Aviation. an Accident. London, Friday Night

Northern Star · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 5

Vitay, while aeroplaning from Hendon, caught a wind gust, at Farnborough, and his machine turned turtle and was wrecked, and his legs were broken seriously…

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Shellharbour Tragedy. Accidentat, Death. Verdict Loudly Cheered. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 5

The inquest on Walter Siely, who was shot at Shellharbour, was concluded on Saturday. when a verdict of accidental death was returned…

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Accident to an Ambassador. Another Obstructionist. Later

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 5

Before the royal couch had passed out of the Mall on its way to Westminster a man endeavoured to obstruct the procession and present a petition to the King for…

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A Peculiar Accident

Northern Star · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 2

Young [?]Aubrey Joseph, eldest son of Mr. C. Joseph. Murwillumbah, met with a very painful and unusual accident on Sunday on his father's farm, near Marks' Wharf…

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Mining Fatality. Three Men Killed. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 7

Three miners named Wallace, Kett and Rice, working in the North Mine, Broken Hill, met their deaths this morning in a sensational manner. They were engaged in…

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Accident at Tyalgum

Northern Star · Monday 17 March 1913 · page 8

A road contractor namcd Buckley who is well known on the Eichmond River, met with a serious,accident while scrun-felling at Tyalgum on Friday. He was felling a…

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Sensational Collision

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 5

The Brighton-Sandringham railway line was the scene of a sensational occurrence on Saturday night. A number of drags containing the members…

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Serious Motor Accident. Car Capsized and Burnt. Prospective Brides' Bad Luck. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 5

A motor car travelling from Kempsey to catch the train from Taree, overturned while going at thirty miles an hour near Coopernook. The driver and all the…

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Sulky Accident

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1913 · page 4

While returning to Kyogle from Casino one day last week, driving a horse and sulky, Mr. W. Johnston, of Killalee, Bonalbo, had the…

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Tram Accident. Man Killed Two Children Injured. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 7

A shocking tram accident occurred in Cleveland-street this afternoon. A horse attached to a sulky, at which were a man and two chlldren, bolted and crashed into…

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Team Fatality. Man Crushed to Pulp. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 7

A labourer named James Ryan was making a purchase at a shop in Manly when he saw a tram he wished to caton passing. He dashed out of the shop, and…

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Fatal Blasting. Accident on the Railway. One Man Killed. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 7

A sensational blasting accident has occurred at the raliway deviation works between Waterfall and Otford, by which Richard Wilson was killed instantly and two…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Northern Star · Monday 24 March 1913 · page 4

A youth named Roy Milgate, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Milgate, of Coraki, was playing on the Coraki Butter Company's wharf on Saturday morning, with several other…

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Harbour Accident. Hungarian Drowned. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 24 March 1913 · page 5

Anthony Vingill Gasparich, fourth engineer of the Hungarian steamer Turut, went for a sall on the Harkour in the ship's boat with four other companions,…

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Tram Collision. 20,000 People Detained. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 24 March 1913 · page 5

A serious tram collision occurred at Coogee late this afternoon which resulted in the complete disorganisation of the trafic to that place. A. city bound car…

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Tram Collision. Passengers Badly Injured. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 March 1913 · page 5

A tram collision occurred this morning at the intersectin of King and Elizabeth streets, as the result of one car overshooting its mark. The passengers in both…

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Latest Cablegrams Mining Fatality. Brussels

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 March 1913 · page 5

Fourteen miners wore killed by the breakaway, of a cage at Mons…

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Railway Accident. Bodies Shockingly Battered. Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 March 1913 · page 5

To-night Walter Davis, a [?]arryman, about 37 years old and [?] woman whose name is unknown, aobut 40 years old were killed on the railway at Sunshine,…

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