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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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The Riots in Cuba. Eighty-two Persons Injured. London, November 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 21

The strike riots in Havana resulted in 82 persona being seriously injured, besides 10 being killed. Senor Tamaye, the Secretary of the Interior, who sympathises with the…

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A Serious Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 November 1902 · page 24

Miss Elizaberth Rowlands, a young woman 27 years of age, was Bitting in a gig in front of one of the stores in Wangaratta on Monday when a team of six horses, drawing a heavy…

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Sad Cass of Drowning. a Boy 10 Tears of Age

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 3

Considerable excitement was caused in Moa[?]s on Monday morning when it became known that a boy named William Buckley, son of Mr Geo. Buckley had been drowned in the Murray the previous…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 December 1902 · page 3

A sad drowning fatality occurred last Saturday afternoon, in the river near the bridge, by which Lionel Guy, third son of Police…

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Railway Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1902 · page 28

An alarming railway accident happened on Thursday evening between F[?]aders-street and Spencer-street stations…

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Drowned in the Campaspe

The Independent · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 2

It was reported to the Echuca police on Wednesday morning by Mr Robert Young, farmer, of Millewa, that a girl named Sarah Dyer…

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Accident to Mr. Henry Lawson

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 29

Mr. Henry Lawson, post and story writer, was found at the bottom of the cliffs at Manly on Sunday. Fortunately he had sustained but slight injuries, the…

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Strange Revolver Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 15

A young man named Peter William Griffiths. who resided with his father, Mr. Edward Griffiths, just outside Benalla, met his death on Tuesday morning through an accident…

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Temora. Accidents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 15

On Wednesday morning last, at Mimosa, a farmer named John Chisdell was the victim of an accident which was attended with fatal results. It appears that about 10 a.m Chisdell…

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Fatal Mill Fire at Stockport, England. Exciting Scenes, Many Persons Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 4

A fire of alarming proportions broke out in the Vernon Cotton Miles at Stockport on the afternoon of November 5. There were three large…

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Science. the Accident of Choking

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 2

[?]ONTINUING our occasional papers on ambulance, or first-aid treatment of accidents, we may to-day consider the question of choking…

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Drowning Fatality at Gundagai. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 December 1902 · page 2

Two boys, named Edgar Thomson and William M'Gregor, aged 8 and 11 years respectively, were drowned at Gundagai on Saturday afternoon…

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A Pugilist Seriously Injured. His Opponent Under Arrest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 35

Early on Tuesday morning a coloured man named Tom Mitchell, aged 25, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital in an unconscious condition. Mitchell, who is a pugilist, was…

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Found Drowned

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

The inquest touching the death of Henry Anderson, 45, whose body was found in Farm Cove on December 27, with the appearance of having been about…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 December 1902 · page 21

Two travelling agents for the City Mutual Assurance Society had a narrow escape from drowning while crossing the Mitta River at Bowler's Crossing in a gig…

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Accident to a Cow

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

A Candelo correspondent is responsible for the following:—A rather peculiar incident happened here a few days ago. The cow of a local resident (Mr. J…

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Fatal Accident

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

Gustav Adolph Faehrmann, aged 19, son of Mr. A. O. Faehrmann, one of the oldest residents of the Mannum district (S.A.), met with a fatal accident last…

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Serious Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 December 1902 · page 2

A most serious accident befe[?] Mr. William Howard, who was travelling [?] route for Corowa by the express train from Sydney on Christmas Morning…

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