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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

67 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 4

Fatal Accident

Western Champion · Friday 30 March 1900 · page 10

A very sad accident resulting in the death of a youth named Reggie Hogsflesh, happened at Peak Hill on Saturday. It appears that he left Mr…

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Fatal Accident

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 9

On Saturday afternoon last a man named James Kidney (aged 39 years), who had only arrived from Parkes a few days previously and commenced…

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Ferry Accidents

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 8

Much comment has been made from time to time about the crowded state in which the Circular Quay waters are during the busy hours of the day, with…

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Mining Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1900 · page 2

Thomas O'Shaughnessy, working at the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, yesterday fell 120ft down a shaft, and was killed instantaneously…

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Gun Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1900 · page 2

While two seamen of the warship, Dart, were rabbit shooting in Tasmania, one accidently shot the other dead…

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Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1900 · page 2

While a picnic party was returning in a drag to Reefton, New Zealand, the vehicle fell over a bank. The driver was killed and many of the…

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Serious Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 2

A MAN named Henry Lovett ([?] of Wyalong) met with a serious accident on Saturday at Mr. Baker's farm on the Merool: While [?]…

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Serious Accident

Western Champion · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 10

A serious accident befel a man named John Bedwell at Adavale on Saturday last through the sudden falling of a tree. The injured man was at once…

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Mining Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon, a miner named Gustav Lind, Working in the Gipsy Queen mine met with a very severe accident, through being crushed by a fall of rock…

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Melancholy Fatality

Western Champion · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 10

We regret to have to chronicle the death, under distressful circumstances, of a little 8 months old infant, the child of Mr John Lee of Parkes. During…

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A Frightful Accident

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 12

[?] a time a man is invited out to dinner, and seeing some delicacies on the table, he partakes of them. But as soon as he leaves his friend’s house, with [?]is…

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Railway Accident in New Zealand

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 3

THE Rimutaka line, between Wellington and the Wairarapa district, is one that has (a Press Association message states) an unenviable…

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A Frightful Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 4

Many a time a man is invited out to dinner, and seeing some delicacies on the table, he partakes of them. But as soon as he leaves his friend's…

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Terrible Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 2

An unfinished bridge at the Paris Exhibition collapsed when there was a crowd of people underneath, and eight were killed and sixty injured…

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Gun Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 8 May 1900 · page 2

Margaret Lake, aged 13, was accidentally shot by her brother, aged 17, at Broken Hill yesterday. The bullet entered near the heart, and her recovery is…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Forbes Times · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 4

AS accident of a very serious nature occurred on Wednesday at the mining property recently purchased by the Lachlan Goldfield’s Mine owners, and situated about a mile north of Sinclair’s. It…

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Serious Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

LAST Saturday afternoon, Mr. Richard Saunders, the well-known carrier, had a most miraculous escape from being killed. For some time past he has been driving one…

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Burning Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 6

What appears to be a miraculous escape from a fatal burning accident occurred at Condobolin about 11 o'clock yesterday morning. A little girl, aged about 5 years,…

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Accident

Western Champion · Friday 22 June 1900 · page 10
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

A man named Atkinson, a member of the Molong Mounted Rifles, while trying the strength of his rifle on Wednesday near Condobolin, and being…

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