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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Recent Boating Fatality. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 2

The dead body of Miss Sadio Lawson, the victim of the boating fatality off Blue's Point on Sunday week, was found floating near Cockatoo Island this…

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Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 21

A lad named Hintz was admitted to the hospital from injury to his hand, caused by explosion of a dynamite cap…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 29

An accident occurred at the Occidental mine, Cobar, when one of the workmen, James Ernest Bates, was killed and another man (named Case) was injured. The…

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Bicycle Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 24

Mr. Belbridge, in returning to his office yesterday afternoon ran over a stone, and was thrown against a tree near the Club. He was taken into the Club, and Dr…

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Three Accidents

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 2

Three cases the result of accident were reported to the Albury Hospital yesterday. The first was that of a young man, named Alfred Hentz, a…

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Painful Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 2

On Saturday last Mr. G. Bass, a lorry driver in the employ of Mr. R. Thompson, of Wahgunyah met with an accident of the painful nature when another…

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A Clergyman Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 15 August 1904 · page 3

The Rev. F. J. Albury, vicar of Christchurch, Haymarket, was found lying injured and unconscious on the tram line a Rozelle on Saturday…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 August 1904 · page 2

Miss Nellic Prow eight years of ago had her hand between the rollers of a manage at Mrs.[?] steam- packet Hotel yesterday afternoon…

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Mysterious Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 August 1904 · page 2

Mr. H. Krebs, who trains the racing [?] Signora for Mr. F. Tyrrell at Wahgunyab met with an accident on Saturday morning in a mysterious…

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Fatal Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 17 August 1904 · page 2

While out rabbit, shooting near Wellington, a youth named Thomas Liddell, was accidentally shot dead by a companion…

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Another Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 August 1904 · page 3

William Lyons, a railway employe, was knocked down by a passenger train at Eveleigh, and his skull fractured…

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Destroyers in Collision. London, August 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 27

While manoeuvring off the Soilly Islands on Saturday night without lights, the destroyers Arun and Decoy, stationed afc Devonport, came into collision. The Decoy…

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Accident

The Independent · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 2

On Tuesday morning at Cobran station an employe named J. Brown met with a nasty accident. While chopping meat with a cleaver, he struck…

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Accident

The Independent · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 2

An accident happened on the Tocumwal road last Friday when the Rev. L. H. Kelynack, accompanied by his wife and infant daughter, was…

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Drowned in the Yarra

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 3

The body of a man was this morning found in the Yarra, near the South Wharf. It was identified at the Morgue as that of Thomas Barber, of…

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Machinery Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 3

A man named Henry Reynolds, 35, had his hand severely lacerated between two rollers at Detmold's paper manufactory Flinders-lane, this…

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Accident

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 2

On Friday afternoon last week, as the Rev. L. H. Kelynack, with his wife and child, were proceeding to Tocumwal in a sulky, the horse started kicking and got beyond control. The animal bolted some…

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Sad Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 2

Miss Morrow, residing 17 miles from Grafton, was accidentally shot by her brother with a pea rifle and died shortly afterwards…

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Buggy Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 August 1904 · page 29

Mrs. Leemon, an elderly lady, who resident near Coolamon road, North Wagga was driving, and was nearing the front entrance gate of the experiment farm, when…

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Collision in Darling Harbour

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 3

Another collision occurred this morning in Darling Harbour. The Annandale ferry boat Lilac ran into the oil launch His Majesty. The latter was…

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