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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Buggy Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 29

A buggy accident involving the death of a woman and injuries to several persons occurred in the Cooma district. A shearer and labourer named Gilchrist, his wife, and…

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Coach Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 29

Mr. G. Danvers (says the Tumut Times) narrowly escaped a serious accident with his coach and passengers on their way to Yarrangobilly a few days since. When…

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Terrible Accident on a Warship. 43 Men Killed. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 21

The boiler of the warship Wallaroo burst this morning off Montague Island. Forty-three men were hilled. The vessel will reach Sydney to-morrow. She passed Moruya…

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Shooting Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 29

A peculiar shooting accident happened at Sorrento on Thursday morning. A young man named John Main, who was on a holiday visit and had spent most of his…

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Accident to Constable Nesbitt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

Constable Nesbitt, who met with an accident while riding one of the police horses to the police paddock on Wednesday evening, is more seriously…

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Durning Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

A member of a fishing picnic at Wahgunyah on New Year's Day in Ruby Ahgan, aged about five year, was severely burned about the legs owing to…

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Street Collision. Three Persons Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

A [?] collision occurred in [?] this afternoon. between a hors and van and an electric tram The horse [?] and [?]…

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Drowned in the Yarra

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

The death of Albert Henderson, a seafaring man, who was drowned in the Yarrn yesterday evening, was brought about in a very simple man…

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The Recent Collision. Condition of the Second Officer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

The latest report regarding the condition of Mr. Arthur Durant, recond officer of the steamer Cooges, is that he is still progressing slowly but…

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Presbyterian Mission Steamer. Missionary and Twenty Three Natives Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

An American [?] steamer, while proceeding to [?] in Contral [?] caps[?] in the Upper [?] River…

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Gun Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 2

On Friday last lad named Frank Morley, son of Mr. A. G. Morley, South Corowa, had a narrow escape from injury by the bursting of a hammerless…

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Chinamen Badly Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

Whist returning from [?]hworth off Monday evening with wing [?] cart and [?] two Chinamen had a [?] coming down the Cap…

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Riding Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

A youth named Albert George Edwards, aged 18, met with a rather serious accident yesterday afternoon at Table Top. He was riding a horse…

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Railway Collision. Thirty Lives Lost. London, January 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 27

A disastrous railway accident has happened in Kansas. A passenger train, going at the rato of 30 miles an hour, came into collision with a cattle train 14 miles westward of…

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The Wallaroo Explosion. Four Killed. Four Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 35

There was a general feeling of relief whon the H.M.S. Wallaroo arrived in Sydney on Friday morning, and it was ascertained that the results: of the explosion on board had…

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Where the Accident Happened

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 35

The Wallaroo and her sister-ship, the Tauranga, left Jervis Bay ab 5 o'clock on Tuesday evening last for Hobart to join the squadron there, and all went wall till shortly…

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Serious Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 28

A serious accident occurred at Swanpool, 20 miles from Benalla, on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Mark Evans was driving in a milk-cart his wife, Miss Kennedy…

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Accident

The Independent · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

A man named Donaldson was admitted into the hospital on Sunday afternoon with a broken collarbone and numerous abrasions. He was…

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Telegrams. Inter-state. Melbourne, Thursday. Shooking Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 3

A shocking accident occurred in the Port Melbourne railway yard this morning, the victim being Hans Hanstub, a railway employe, 13 years of…

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Senator Playford Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 3

Senator Playford, Vice-President of the [?]contive Council, mat with a painful a[?]ent on Thursday. One tof the curtains in his room caught fire,…

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