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Accidents, 1912

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Japanese Steamers Collide. Many People Drowned. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 2

The Japanese steamers Ryoha Maru and Mori Maru collided off Tokio. Forty-six passengers and the crews of both steamers were drowned. Both…

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Floods in Spain. Twelve Villages Submerged. Inhabitants Starving and Drowning. Madrid

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 2

One of the effects of the great floods in Spain is that every house is submerged in twelve riverside villages, in the valley of the Guadelquiver, with…

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Ganmain Revolver Accident Fatal Termination. the Inquest. Ganmain

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 2

The young man, Bert Burman, who was accidentally shot at the "Express" office, at Ganmain, on Tuesday, died in Mrs. Porche's private hospital at 1…

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Railway Collision. Smash at Sutherland. a Lucky Escape. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

A railway collision occurred at Sutherland this morning through an engine and three cars, which came through from Waterfall, dashing into…

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Accident at the Rock

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

Owing to a team of horses taking fright at The Rock railway station yesterday evening, Mr. Thomas Alfred, George Condon, son of Mr. J. Condon,…

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Fatal Shooting Accident at Ganmain. Local Compositor the Victim

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

News reached Coolamon on Tuesday evening that young Bert Burman, a highly respected young compositor employed played at the “Express” office had met…

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Railway Fatality. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 4

Patrick Mulligan, a laborer, employed at the Glenbrook railway deviation works, was run over by a train last night and killed…

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Serious Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 2

Mr. T. A. Condon, son of Mr. J. Condon, of "Pretty Valley," met with a serious accident at The Rock railway station on Thursday. Whilst…

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Railway Disaster. Pour Killed; Eleven Injured. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1912 · page 2

Four men were killed and 11 injured in the collision of the Pennsylvania express with a "wreck" train. All aboard the latter lost their lives…

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Shocking Fatality. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 February 1912 · page 5

James Smith, aged 26, a tube cleaner, was crushed between the buffers of two locomotives at Eveleigh work yards to-day, and killed on the spot…

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Fquine Accident

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 20 February 1912 · page 2

Mr. W. Bowering struck bad luck on Wednesday, through a nasty accident to his well-known and valuable brown racing gelding,…

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Shocking Fatality Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 22 February 1912 · page 2

John Kelly, aged 32, a soap maker at the Wool-washing Works, Liverpool (N.S.W.), fell into a vat of bolling soap to-day, and was so terribly…

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Launch Fatality London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 22 February 1912 · page 2

A launch was capsized near Rangoon, And 50 persons were drowned…

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Collision in Tunnel Trains Set on Fire. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 2

Two trains met in collision midway in a tunnel at North Adams, Massachusetts, and caught fire as the result of the impact. Four men were…

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Sandbagged and Robbed a Daring Attack. Mr. Alfred Hordern Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 2

Mr. Alfred Hordern, son of Mr. A. J. Hordern, was sandbagged and robbed outside his father's house at Waitara last night…

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Mills Wrecked. Explosion at Bradford. Two Men Killed and Many Injured. Road Torn Up

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 6

Another great industrial centre in the North of England has suffered from a serious and, unfortunately, fatal explosion (says a London paper of December 10)…

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New Cardinals. Slight Accident to Pope

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 7

The Pope was the victim of a slight accident this morning (wired the correspondent of the "Westminister Gazette" on November 29). His Holiness…

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Serious Burning Accident. a Woman's Expedient. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 2

Mrs. Peint, a resident of Paddington, was carrying on her household duties this morning when her clothes caught fire. She threw herself under…

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Shocking Fatality Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 7

Roy Headley, son of the manager of a sawimil at Casino, while assisting at shunting on the railway, was caught between the buffers and killed…

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Driving Fatality ALBURY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 3

Mr. David Whitehead (78), member of a well-known Upper Murray family, was driving in a buggy on the top of Wabba Gap, when a wheel…

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