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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

4 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

A Sad Drowning

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 4

On Wednesday last two sons of Mr. Edward Smith, of Blaxland's Ridge, aged respectively 13 and 10 years, went off to the river while their mother was preparing the…

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A Serious Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

A VERY serious accident happened to Mr, Edward Maguire, of "Killarney" on Wednesday evening. He was at work at the washaway contract on Freeman's…

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Windsor and Richmond Gazette. Saturday, November 11, 1905. The Stanford Merthyr Mining Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 11 November 1905 · page 4

Mr Arthur Price, late of Richmond, now of West Maitland, sends us the following references to the recent fatal mining accident. "The Stanford Merthyr mine, at which the terrible…

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Browning Accident at Sackville

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 6

A SAD fatality occured near Churchill's Wharf on Sunday afternoon. Two brothers named Stewart, from Balraam, were spending their Christmas holidays with their uncle, Mr. Edgar…

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