Deadly Motor Race Driver Hurled Out at Top Speed. Many Cars Overturned. One Killed; Four Injured
From New York, on 9th October, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:— The automobile race for the Vander…
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Accidents, 1908
87 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 5
Dreadful Railway Accident
WHILE a line repairer was making his way home to Hobart on Monday night he came across the bodies of a woman and a child in a tunnel near…
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A serious accident occurred at Brooklands yesterday, August 8, a Mercedes car, travelling at a speed of 110 or 118 miles an hour,…
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WHILE the Fire Brigade Band was being conveyed to the picnic and sports at Lanyon on Wednesday, in a waggonette drawn by four horses,…
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A startling report comes from Reedy Creek, on the Peel River estate. It appears that Mr. Edward Macfarlane, late Under-Secretary for Lands, was engaged in the work of valuing for the…
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The correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" writes from Paris on the 7th September:—Four persons have been killed and…
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EDWARD COGHLIN, a married man, employed by Mr. H. D. White, of Morelma, Bannockburn, was returning from Inverell on Thursday…
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A DOUBLE drowning occurred in the Namoi River, near Boggabri, on Sunday, James Wattus, 22, and George Wattus, 11, being the…
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Six persons were drowned on, Saturday, August 15 on Calais Sands, near the Casino, in view of thousands of excursionists who had come there in…
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ARTHUR R. CAVILL, two years of age, the second youngest child of Mr Dick Cavill, the ex-champion swimmer, who is now in charge of…
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A MAN named Frederick Carter (44) a shopkeeper, was found dead in the bath at his residence, Crystal-street, Petershain, on Sunday evening…
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Quite a gloom was cast over the town on Saturday afternoon last when the sad intelligence was received that Mr. John Allen had been struck dead by lightning on the…
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A DISASTROUS boating accident occurred in Port Macquarie on Wednesday afternoon. Thos. Porteus, of Royal Hotel, accompanied by J. H…
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MRS. HALL, of Cuttabri wine shop, was driving with her son, aged II, to where her husband was tending some sheep, about ten miles from WeeWaa,…
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The gun accident by which Ida May Scidel was shot at Mongarlowe on Sunday week last, the particulars of which have been already published terminated fatally on Wednesday morning, the girl…
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AN elderly fisherman, Geo. Howard, was drowned in the Murray 011 Sunday Afternoon. Deceased, when seen by an Albury resident earlier, was…
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After a brilliant engagement off Mllford on Monday night, August 9th, in connection with the naval manoeuvres, when both the Red and Blue sides claimed a…
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Two young ladies, the nieces of M. Ledouy, owner of the Chateau des Houles, near Dinard, France, were bathing in a little bay. One of them,…
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A MESSAGE from Hobart states that a sad fatality took place on Tuesday at Plenty. A Mrs. Watkins and three children, aged respectively…
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The most tragic accident of the river season occurred at Staines last night (writes the "Daily Mall" of September 14), when a punt with a man and a girl,…
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