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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Another Tram Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

Petty officer William Robertson, of H.M.S. Royal Arthur, was knocked down by a tram in George-street night and killed…

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Railway Accident. Passengers Injured. London, September 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 27

A serious railway accident happened yesterday. The express from Penzance. Cornwall, after slowing down to a rate of 20 miles an hoar when approaching; Paddington station…

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Fatal Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 29

A fatal accident happened on Friday morning to Henry Petziki, 15 years of age, the son of a farmer at Murrabit West. The lad started work rolling his…

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Painful Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 29

An elderly man named Peter Donnelly, travelling in search of work, camped, on Thursday, 11th, with a mate in an untenanted hut some distance this Bide of…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon a son of Sergeant Walsh's met with a serious accident. He was riding a horse without a saddle or bridle, and falling had the misfortune…

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Fatal Bicycle Accident. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 2

A commercial traveller [?] Roger Watts while travelling down a hill near Lismore on a bicycle at a terrific rate, collident with a solky. He received…

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Accident to Mr. Roosevelt. Details by Mail

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 2 October 1902 · page 4

American mails to hand by the Sonoma, which arrived in Sydney on Saturday, contain an account of the accident to President Roosevelt's…

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Burning Fatality

The Independent · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 2

Our Moulamein correspondent says:-Tuesday 23rd September, at about 4 p.m., Emily A. Hole, a child of four and a half years of age, was…

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Dynamite Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 29

About 10 o'clock on Thursday forenoon the State school teachers and scholars attending the Institute Room at Wedderburn were alarmed by a loud explosion…

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Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 29

Frederick Baker (21) had his foot completely severed from the leg, just above the boot, and buried 10in. or 12in. in the ground, through a failing tree striking him…

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M. Zola Dead. Accidentally Smothered. London, September 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 27

News has just been received of the sadden death of M. Emlle Zola, the famous French novelist. It appears that M. Zola returned from the…

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Death of M. Zola. Accidentally Asphyxiated. London, September 29

The Independent · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 4

The death is announced of M. Emile Zola, the great French novelist, at the age of 62 years. M. Zola was accidentally asphyriated…

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Accident Whilst Trucking

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 2

[?] Cooper, employed by Mr. J. G. Gray, of Kentucky, was engagal trucking sheep at Carnalsle on Tuesday, when be got caught between the buffers of. two…

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Found Drowned

The Independent · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 2

Information was received in Deniliquin on Sunday night from the Tocumwal police that a man named James Quilty, a fisherman, had been…

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Shooting Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 3

A tragic occurrence was reported from Lavington, 3 miles from Albury, on Thursday afternoon. The dead body of John Box, aged 1[?],…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 3

A boating accident of an unusually sad character occurred on the Upper Yarra, at Hawthorn, on Sunday afternoon, when a when a young couple named Ernest Lahy…

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Double Boating Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 31

A boating accident of an unusually sad character occurred on the Upper Yarra, at Hawthorn (Vic), on Sunday afternoon, when a young couple named Ernest…

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Sad Boating Fatality. Struck a Snag in the Varra. Two Young People Drowned. Melbourne

The Independent · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 4

The Yarra was the scene of a sad boating fatality this afternoon. A youthful boating party, consisting of Ernest Lahey, Mary Perriman, Alice Youngs,…

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Burning Fatality Near Mulwala a Dealer the Victim Magisterial Inquiry

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 2

A shocking burning fatality occurred at Mulwala some time between 10 a m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday last, Henry Coruelius, dealer,…

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Shocking Railway Accident. a Guard Out to Pieces

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 41

A false step, which was made by a railway guard named Albert Lord at the Richmond station in the darkness of the early morning on Tuesday, proved fatal, the unfortunate…

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