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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Railway Accident in Italy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 April 1905 · page 2

A train conveying troops at Gonon, an important so[?]port of italy collided with a goods tr[?] with disastrous results…

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Sad Boating Fatality. Three Young Men Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 25

On sunday afternoon a sad accident, in which three young men lost their lives, occurred on the Torrens River, Adelaide. A party of four companions from…

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Railway Disaster. an Italian Collision. London, April 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 27

A shocking railway accident is reported from Italy. A train, conveying a large number of recruits for the army, left Genoa yesterday. At Ronco, 15 miles away, it ran into a goods…

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Railway Accident. Ten Casualties. London, April 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 27

A serious railway accident took place yesterday in Yorkshire. An engine was being shunted at Huddersfield, when it collided with a passenger train running in from Bradford. The…

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Fatal Pea-rifle Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 29

Robert Hammond, 10 years of age, son of Mr. W. Hammond, of Marraweeny, died in the Wangaratta Hospital from the effects of injury caused by a pea-rifle…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Thursday. Fatal Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 3

This afternoon a railway accident happened by which an old man named Daniel Prinall, aged 83, lost his life. A pilot engine was proceeding from…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 3

At 10 a.m. on Easter Sunday George Alexander, a boy aged 16 years, went on 10 Lake Moodemere near Wahgunyah shooting with a…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 2

At about 2 p.m. on Wednesday last Master Willie Squires, son of Mr,. W. Squires, builder and contractor, met with a serious accident. He was…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. Injured at a Railway Crossing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 1 May 1905 · page 3

A youth named Charles Anderson, 19 years of age, was found lying on a railway crossing at midnight on Saturday. He had evidently been…

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Drowning Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 29

Benjamin Bracey, 35 years of ago, was accidentally drowned in the Murray River at Barham, near Echuca, on Friday. He was employed by Messrs. Falkiner and…

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Gundagai Shooting Fatality. Careless Use of Pea Rifles

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 24

A sensation was occasioned in Gundagai on Friday afternoon by the news that a youth named Arthur True, aged 17, the eldest son of a much esteemed resident…

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People Have Been Injured in the Queerest Kind of Manner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 15

A short time ago Miss Carrie Hughin, of Janesville, Wis., was so tightly hugged by her lover that two of her ribs became interlocked. After suffering severe pain…

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Unfortunate Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 28

Mrs. Catherine Bourke, who resides at Launching-place, near Healesville, (Vic.) while walking along the footpath, slipped and broke her ankle. Her husband…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 29

A fatal shooting accident occurred at Giuborne on Friday afternoon. A. Davies a resident of Gisborne, was rabbit shooting with two friends, Mr. W. Byrne and…

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Drowned While Fishing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 May 1905 · page 3

At Newcastle to-day a boat containing a fishing party of four was capsized. Two of the occupants of the boat was drowned before assistance…

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Drowned in the Mitta Mitta

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 3

The body of a young man named Peter Nicholson was found in the Mitta Mitta river to-day at a spot known as Double Gully. The man…

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Mistchenko's Raid. a Graphic Narrative. Nine Hundred and Eighty-one Men Drowned

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 4

Messrs. Bush Brothers, of Newchwang, have sent us the following detailed account of Mistchenko's famous raid:—…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 2

A painful mishap happened in a simple manner to Master Don. Swan, aged about ten years, son of Mr. J. Swan, contractor, on Saturday…

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Fatality at Talgarno. Killed by a Falling Limb

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 3

An accident which was attended by fatal results befel Mr. Kenneth J. Lobban, a well-known farmer at Talgarno on Tuesday evening…

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Fatal Accident to a Cross-Country Horseman. M. Mooney Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 18

The career of the popular and successful cross-country horseman, Michael Mooney, came to a tragic termination on Saturday. His last ride (says the "Argus") was on…

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