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Accidents, 1907

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Three Children Drowned

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

Three children of Mr. Moore, assistant light-house-keeper at Point Moore, Geraldion (West Australia), were drowned while batting during…

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Shocking Bathing Accident. Three Children Drowned. Others Start Playing. Perth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 3

A distressing case of drowning occurred at Point Moore, Geraldton, on Friday evening, by which three children lost their lives. About 6 o'clock five…

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Telegraphic News. General Cables. 340 Persons Drowned. London, Jan. 13

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

A disastrous tidal wave occurred south of Sumatra, and on the island of Tanah Balls. No fewer than 340 people were drowned…

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Accident at Hayes's Mill

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at Hayes's Flour Mills, Baylis Street, yesterday. It is generally known that the mills are being pulled down by Mr. John Gray…

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A Peculiar Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 3

A married man named Ernest Freeman, aged 30, was struck in the face with a piece of wood, while working at a saw mill at Cabramatta to-day. He…

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A Foundry Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

A painful accident happened at the wagga Iron Foundry on Monday afternoon, the victim being a youth named George Milne. It seems that Milne…

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Sensation Driving Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

Mrs. Hulme, Miss Coysh, Mrs. Everard, and two children were out driving at Walwa (on the Murray) and met with a sensational accident, attended…

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A Jockey Injured

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 2

The pony, Le Var, fell while racing at Kensington to-day, and the jockey, H. Carr was conveyed to the hospital suffering from concussion of the brain…

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An Official Report. 30 KILLED: 300 Injured. London, Later

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 2

Mr. Winston Churchill, Under-secretary for the Colonies, announces that the Camp Hospital has been destroyed. Thirty people have been killed, and 300…

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Another Earthquake. West Indies Visited. City Reported Destroyed. Hundred Killed: Hundreds Injured. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 2

Another catastrophe due to earthquake has occurred, on this occasion in the West Indies. The full extent of the calamity is not yet known, owing to the…

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Restores to Sight. Two Accidents

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

A strange case of sight which was destroyel by one accident being. restored by another was reported from Loads yesterday (writes the…

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Collision Between Trains. Serious Damage Done. No One Injured

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

A collision occurred between two goods trains at Stanwell Park, on the Illawarra line, this morning. A train was standing at the station when…

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Queensland. on the Rock. a Steamer Injured. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

The extent of the damage to the steamer Airlie, which struck the rocks near Bulimba Point last night, has not yet been ascertained…

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Camped in the Open. Tee Killed Injured and Missing

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

Nine thousand people are homeless. The population is encamped on the parade ground, the racecourse, and other open spaces and are reluctant to return…

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Jamaica Earthquake. City in a Panic. Ocean Bed Subsiding. Fears for the City. Hundreds Killed and Injured. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

Further particulars of the earthquake at Kingston, Jamaica, show that the first reports were not exaggerated. Sir Alfred Jones telegraphs that all houses within a…

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Railway Accident. Nineteen Trucks Derailed. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

While a goods train was standing at Stanwell Park this morning another goods train dashed into it. One engine, the break van, and 19 trucks…

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A Sad Fatality Wagga Youth Drowned. Body Not Yet Recovered

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon a distressing totality occurred at Baker's Beach, near Wagga, when a Wagga youth named Albert Edward Edney, aged 16…

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Sad Bathing Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

A very sad bathing fatality occurred on Sunday afternoon at a bend in the river known as Bakers Beach. Albert Edward Edney, a youth, aged about…

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Accident to Lord Kitchener. a Sensational Incident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

Lord Kitchener has had a narrow escape from a serious accident. As commander-in-chief he was supervising military man[?]uvres it Poona, the military centre…

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A Nasty Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 4

Masters Culley and Henshaw were the victims of a peculiar accident on Tuesday last. They drove to the river in a sulky turnout, for the purpose of fishing…

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