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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Intercolonial News. SYDNEY, Thursday. Serious vehicle accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 2

Mr. P. H. Wood, aged seventy, the owner of Yarrawong estate, Begs district, was driving buggy at Double Creek, when, his horse…

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Fatal train collision

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 2

The Scotch Express collided with a train at Codsworth, Seven were killed and forty injured…

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Swept away and drowned

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 January 1905 · page 2

Two brothers named Stuffin, were riding a horse over the Gin Gin Creek, Queensland, when they were swept away and drowsed…

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Machinery Fatality at Walhalla

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 2

A FATAL accident (says the Bairnadale "Advertiser") occurred at the Long Tunnel battery house about 11.30 on Friday night. A young men named…

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Fatality on a submarine. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 2

An explosion occured in a submarine at Queenstown Ireland by which six men were killed…

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Fatal shooting accident. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1905 · page 2

[?] Wynne a baker of Bullied Heman were out shooting at Appin on Saturday when the former received…

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Shooting accident near Braidwood

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

A young man named Donohoe was shooting wallabies in the Braidwood district, when he was shot in the wrist by his…

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Drowned on the Dismentine

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 2

Mr. Wm. Smith, overseer of Langawirra Station, in the for west, was bringing cattle from Queensland, and was drowned…

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Collision in the Harbour. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 2

The Lane Cove ferry boat, Shamrock, and the tug, Hero, collided at Circular Quey at too o'clock last night Slight damage was done to…

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Accident to a miner

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Thursday 20 April 1905 · page 2

Maurice Roche, well known in mining circlet, as a result of an accident, bad a leg amputated is the knee…

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Terrible mining accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 15 May 1905 · page 2

A Broken Hill telegram reports that two miners named James Ferguson and Thomas Pollack were blown to pieces at the 500 last [?]…

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Dreadful Accident

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 8

FURTHER particulars are to hand (says the Eden "Observer") concerning the serious accident to Mr Arnold Hegarty at Mallacoota on the 4th instant, whereby…

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Collision off Sydney Heads

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 22 May 1905 · page 2

The coastal steamer Peterborough outward bound, bad just cleared Sydney beads before midnight, when to the darkness and hairy…

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400 Russians Drowned

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 June 1905 · page 2

Japanese accounts confirm the report of the sinking of the Z[?] and state that the [?] was badly injured by torpedoes She escaped…

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Terrible Accident at a Mine. Two Men Killed

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A terrible fatality occurred at the Virginia Mine, Eaglehawk, to-day. Two miners, Peter Johnson and John Mayberry, went to work in…

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Terrible well-sinking fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 2

At Wagga at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning, John Hanes, about fifty years of age, was sinking a well (or a drain near the Bridge…

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Drowned while crossing a creek

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 June 1905 · page 2

David Cheney, while attempting to cross creek at Humula, near Wagga, was drowned…

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Coach accident in Victoria

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1905 · page 2

A three horse mail coach was descending a steep bill about 8 miles from Linton, Victoria, when something broke. The horses…

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Serious vehicle accident at Bega

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 2

An accident of a serious nature happened kat north Bega bridge on Thursday [?] butter waggon was on the way to [?]…

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Child drowned at Balmain

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1905 · page 2

A child named Jessie Bryan, aged eight years, was drowned at the Bald Rock Ferry wharf, Balmain, last evening…

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