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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Another Frightful Train Accident. Parboiled in Oil

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 3

A shocking calamity has occurred at Alton, United States. A passenger train collided with an oil rank train and was wrecked. The cars caught fire and ten passengers…

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Accidents

National Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1893 · page 3

On Thursday last a miner named Gooley, who was working at Napoleon Reef, met with an accident. Gooley is a native of Victoria and married, and his family are…

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A Serious Accident

National Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 2

At the O'Connell races on Thursday, a had named Owen, who has for Home time been in the employ of Mr. Lanfranche, butcher, Bathurst, met with an accident, which, it is…

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The World. Terrible Railway Accident. London

National Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 2

A train on a railway line near Villa, Russian Poland, was blocked by snow, and a passenger train coming in the opposite direction dashed into it through…

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The O'connell Accident

National Advocate · Monday 30 January 1893 · page 2

The lad Owen, who was badly injured at the O'Connell races, is, we are glad to report, progressing favorably towards recovery, although still in a dangerous condition. Dr…

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Drowned Through Fishing

National Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 2

On Sunday night a man named Little, who formed one of a fishing party camped on the Cudgegong River, Mudgee, was drowned. Deceased went bathing during the…

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Here and There. Drowned at Orange

National Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 2

A lad named Thomas Luke Mitchell, aged 11, was drowned on Monday, at Orange, while bathing in a dam. He was one of a party…

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An Accident

National Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 3

A man named Bernard M'Garvic, from George's Plains, was admitted into the Bathurst Hospital on Monday evening, suffering from a fracture of the right shoulder, the…

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A Buggy Accident

National Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1893 · page 2

An accident befel Mrs. Burnett, of Wellington, and her daughter, while driving home on Monday. The horse jibbed and backed the buggy over the embankment,…

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Extraordinary Fatality. a Sister of the Late Miss Dies Dies Through Snakebite. Received While Bathing

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 4

We regret to hare to record (says the Evening News) another fatality in the family in the late Miss H. S. Dight, who was drowned while bathing at Bodells a few days…

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A Frightful Accident

National Advocate · Monday 6 February 1893 · page 2

James Swan, an examiner on the railway line, met with a terrible accident on Saturday afternoon, which necessitated the amputation of both his legs…

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An Accident

National Advocate · Monday 6 February 1893 · page 3

On Thursday last, our well-known townsman, Mr. waiter Mutton, was riding after a horse in Rocket-street, Milltown, when the animal on which he was mounted slipped on…

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Serious Railway Accident. an Employee Run Over. His Two Legs Torn Off

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 6 February 1893 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon a very serious accident occurred at the Kelso station by which a " tapper" named James Swan was run over and frightfully maimed. The pick-up…

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The Deluge in Queensland the Waters Still Rising. Towns Completely Destroyed. Thousands of Families Homeless. Miners Drowned in Their Drives. Hundreds of People Ruined. All Business Paralysed. the Rain Still Falling. Sydney, Sunday Night

National Advocate · Monday 6 February 1893 · page 3

THE floods in Queensland are worse and worse. The trains are blocked this side of Ipswich, and at Bundamba (a town further on), every house is under…

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A Captain Drowned. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 1

Henry Gollan, Captain of the steamer Magnet, has been washed overboard and drowned…

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Accident at Wiseman's Creek

National Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1893 · page 1

At Wiseman's Creek, on the 2nd instant, a son of Mr. J. M'Kay, of Campbell's River, broke his leg by being carried against a tree by a run-a-way horse…

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A Sad Accident

National Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1893 · page 1

A terrible accident occurred at the Blayney races yesterday. The well-known jockey Flynn was riding Malta in the Blayney Handicap in a field of eleven horses,…

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Accident at George's Plains

National Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1893 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at George's Plains on Tuesday. Mr. Lamerton, of Lamerton's hotel, Bathurst, had had a day's shooting at Mr. Frank Croaker's ; and was…

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Fatal Racing Accident. a Jockey Killed at Blarney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 9 February 1893 · page 3

The annual races were hold at Blayney yesterday, and in the principal event an accident occurred which threw a complete shadow over the otherwise successfulmeet-in?. In the Blayney Handicap aboat nine hones started, and in drawing lot! the inside…

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Accidents

National Advocate · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 2

A peculiar accident occurred yesterday at Yetholme to a child about two years. A loaded gun appears to have been inadvertently left within reach of the children, and…

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