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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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Disastrous Collision. Ships in a Fog. a Steamer Sunk. Many Lives Lost. London, Feb. 17

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1911 · page 4

The steamer Mount Park sunk on the Kentish rocks after a collision with the steamer Tremont, in a fog. Thirteen of the crew were drowned and…

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Boarding House Blaze. Old Man Suffocated and Others Injured. Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1911 · page 2

During a fire at a boarding-house at Auckland an old man was suffocated. A Maori escaped by jumping through a windows being baely injured by the…

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Fourth Test Match. Australia Leading. Fine Effort by Nourse. Hordern's Success. Sydney Man Injured. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1911 · page 2

When the game was resumed to-day 22,ooo were present The weather was delightful and the wicket had dried nicely. The Australians' innings…

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Yachtsman Drowned

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1911 · page 2

The mail steamer Orontes cut down a down at Hobart on Saturday. W. B. Tawley, a prominent yachtsman was thrown into the…

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Fatal Accident. Bores Creek Woman Thrown Out off a Sulky

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1911 · page 5

On Thursday morning an accident occurred on the Boree Creek road, not far from Long Park. Mrs Paulina Hubner, wife of Mr. E. Hubner…

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Fatal Driving Accident. Farmer's Wife Killed. Lockhart

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1911 · page 3

A sad and fatal accident happened to Mrs. Hubner, the wife of Mr. Win. Hubner, of Boree Creek, on Thursday evening last. Mrs. Hubner was…

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Driving Fatality. Pastoralist Killed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 2

Mr. Hector Cameron, a well-known pastoralist, of Brulong, was found this morning lying on the roadside about 16 miles from Armidale, quite dead…

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Shocking Accident. Wheat Worker's Experience. Entangled in Machinery. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 2

Joseph Slattery, a casual laborer in the employ of the Railway Department, met with a dreadful accident to-day. He was working at the wheat…

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Midnight Collision. Costs Nine Lives

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 4

Nine of the crew of the barquentine Gratitude, of Rochester, owned by the Whitstable Shipping Co., were drowned on Tuesday (says "Lloyd's Weekly…

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Dirt in Wound Caused Inflammation. Blood-Poison Averted and Injured Hand Healed by Zam-Bak

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 4

The tiniest cut or scratch, if neglected may develop into a bad festering sore or blood-poisoning. The timely use of Zam-Buk in such cases will avert serious…

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Street Accident. Man Killed and Two Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1911 · page 4

James Buckley and a man named Hiney driving a milk-cart in Sydney last [?] collided with a tram-car, Buckley as thrown out and killed…

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Extraordinary Fatality. Carried Up by Whirlwind. a Girl Killed. London, Feb. 24

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1911 · page 4

In a gale at Bradford school a girl was caught in a whirlwind in the playground, carried up 20 feet in the air, and killed by the fall…

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Plucky Prisoner. Rescues Constable From Drowning. After Breaking Gaol. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 February 1911 · page 2

A prisoner, named Charles Pilley, sentenced at Tamworth on Friday on a charge of obscenity, escaped from the lock-up yesterday, and ran…

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Shocking Railway Accident Two Men Killed. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 February 1911 · page 2

A terrible accident occured at Blackbutt railway extension, Queensland. A ballast train struck the staging on which several men were…

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Peculiar Accident. Constable Shot by His Own Revolver

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 February 1911 · page 2

Mounted-constable Russel was shift a load of rubbish at the police barracks, Armidale, yesterday, when the cart capsized in a gully. The…

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Many Disasters. Fifty Killed. in Railway Accident. London, Feb. 26

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 February 1911 · page 2

An express train was suddenly derailed at a bridge in Chili, and was precipitated into a ravine. Fifty persons were killed and many were…

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Starling Accident. a Man Mutilated. Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1911 · page 2

While an immense boiler was being hauled up from the hold of the steamer Suffolk at Newcastle, one of the large wheels of the winch burst,…

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Items of News. Accident During Storm

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 2

The rough weather in the Wagga district on Monday evening was responsible for one nasty accident. Muriel Parsell, a three-year-old little girl…

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Man Terribly Injured. Crushed by Fall of Rock. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1911 · page 2

An elderly man, John Heffernan, was killed at Gray's quarries, Goulburn, by a fifteen tons rock falling on him. His body was horribly…

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Bomb Outrage. Tenement House Blown Up. Many Injured. New York, March 3

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1911 · page 4

The front of a tenement house in the Italian colony, New York, was blown out by a bomb. Thirty persons were injured…

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