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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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To-Day's Telegrams. Drowning Fatalities. Condobolin

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 3

News has just arrived of a drowning fatality, four miles down the river. Two boys, Albert Richards and Frederick Taylor, were, crossing the river on horseback. Richards…

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A Boy Drowned Near Condobolin. Condabolin, yesterday

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 3

News has just arrived of a drowning fatality, four miles down the river. Two boys, Albert Richards and Frederick Taylor, were crossing the river on…

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A Man Drowned at Bourke. Bourke

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 3

A man named Wm. Baldock was found drowned in a email waterhole at Wanaaring on Sunday by Constable Kibble…

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The Condobolin Drowning Case. Condobolin

National Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 3

The body of the youth, Frederick Taylor, drowned in the Lachlan River, was recovered front under a log a few yards down the river. The Government…

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Accident on the Turon Dredge. Sofala

National Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 3

Winehman Carroll, of No 1 dredge, met with a serious accident on Monday night. While coupling buckets the wrench slippedland he fell on the buckets…

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Bulky Accident

Molong Argus · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 6

[?] white [?] nock, [?] by his [?] might have proved [?]…

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A Serious Accident

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 17

A serious accident occurred at Moreen, near Mundooran, when a little girl named Nellie Sheppard fell on a pointed stick, which caused…

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Accidents

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 13

Mr. W. Redmond, the popular letter-carrier, met with a serious accident on Tuesday, morning, when he collided with Douglas'…

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The Accident to Mr. Athol Green

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 13

The injuries sustained by Mr. Athol Green, son of Mr. W. H. Green, of Slapdash, were most serious. Both legs were broken,…

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Boating Fatality. a Brave Rescuer. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 3

Owing to the capsizing of a pulling boat at Pork Hacking yesterday Miss. M. E. coles, aged 14, was drowned and the other occupants were heroically saved by a man…

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An Accident. Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 29 January 1900 · page 3

This morning the city coroner held an inquiry, at the South Morgue, as to the death of Thomas Lawlor, aged 53, who fell from a building in Woollahra…

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To-Day's Telegrams. Terrible Accident. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 29 January 1900 · page 3

A Chinaman was cut in two on the railway line this morning in the vicinity of Pennant Hills…

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Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 30 January 1900 · page 2

"Jim" Costello, a shunter at Eskbank railway yards, had an accident to his fingers yesterday, owing to their, being caught between the end of a truck and some timber overlapping from…

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The Pea-gun Accident. a Fatal Result. Yesterday's Inquest

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 30 January 1900 · page 2

In last Tuesday's issue we published particulars of an accident which befel a man named Peter Scanlan, on the previous Saturday evening, through the discharge of a pea-gun, at…

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A Sensational Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 30 January 1900 · page 2

A wire from Armidale dated Saturday says:—A sensational accident happened to a picnic party to the Gam electric works yesterday afternoon. A number of young…

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A Sad Boating Fatality

National Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1900 · page 2

Information f rota Melbourne states that a boating fatality took place on the Thompson River, Walhalla, on Sunday, Six Italians and a boy and girl were crossing the river in…

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A Shooting Gallery Fatality

National Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1900 · page 2

A wire from Lithgow states that a man named Scanlan, travelling with a shooting gallery, started business on a vacant allotment in the main street on the 20th instant…

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The Late Fatality in Main-st

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 4

With reference to the rider attached to the verdict given by the jury at last Monday's inquest--that the Council should not allow shooting galleries in proximity to where people…

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As Accident. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 2

A man named William Butler, an employee at Hodgkinson's foundry at Erskinville, got his hand in a planing machine to-day and the lower part of the…

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A Lady Drowned at Bondi. Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 2

A young lady named Alma Metcalfe was bathing with a friend at Bondi this afternoon, and was drowned. The body was recovered shortly afterwards,…

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