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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

4 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Serious Accident

The Western Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1891 · page 3

LAST evening, shortly after five o'clock, a serious accident happened to one of the employes at Mr. Davie's saw mill. John Handing was working at one of the large…

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The Warship Cordelia. a Terrible Accident. Sydney, July 6

The Western Herald · Wednesday 8 July 1891 · page 3

The Warship Cordelia arrived to-day. She reports a terrible accident. One of the guns burst, and three men were killed and five seriously injured…

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Shocking Accident

The Western Herald · Wednesday 9 December 1891 · page 2

A shocking accident, which is almost certain to terminate fatally, occurred yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock, to a man named Joseph Larkins, who was employed…

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Found Drowned

The Western Herald · Wednesday 23 December 1891 · page 2

ON Monday last, the Coroner, Mr. W. H. Daniell, J.P., held an inquest at Drew's Telegraph Hotel, on a man named Charles Wilkins, a Swede, whose dead body was…

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