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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Accident on [?] AYNGAN

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 July 1894 · page 3

AN accident, luckily unaccompanied with loss of life, occurred to the Cobar train on Saturday evening. The train for Cobar--an extra large one--left Nyngan to time. It consisted of two passenger…

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Sad Drowning Case

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1894 · page 3

Esther and Maude See, aged 19 and 16 respectively, nieces of the exTreasurer, were drowned in the river at Hinton, near Morpeth, to-day,…

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Sporting Intelligence. Fatal Accident to Thomas Corrigan

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 August 1894 · page 4

IN our last, a telegram stated that Corrigan--the greatest cross country rider in Australia--was so fatally injured while riding his own horse Waiter in the Victorian Grand National on Saturday that…

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Accident at Nyngan

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 21 August 1894 · page 2

THE "Advocate" of Friday last says;--Mr. Cromack, one of the Proprietors of the Nyngan Boiling Down Works, met with a very severe accident on Tuesday evening last when returning…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 25 September 1894 · page 2

A RAILWAY collision of a serious character, involving the death of one official and injury to three others, and considerable damage to the rolling stock, occurred at an early hour on…

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Drowned with Her Children

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 2

NARRABRI, October 4.—A sad fatality occurred, at Tibbereenah Station yesterday evening by which Mrs. Kyle, wife of the station manager, and two of…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Railway Accident. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 2 November 1894 · page 4

AT 9.30 this morning a serious railway smash occurred at Redfern. The down train from Parramatta crashed into the outward Goulburn train. Several carriages were splintered, and over…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1894 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident occurred on We inesday morning at the Sydney Railway Station. The 9.30 a.m. passengers trai n for Goulbura just after…

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The Railway Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 November 1894 · page 3

Thirteen patients in hospital suffering from injuries sustained in the railway disaster are all doing well with the exception of W. S. Deane,…

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Sad Burning Fatality

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 2

I SAD accident happened on Wednesday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock, to a young girl named Mary Piesley, residing in Darling-street. It appears…

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Shocking Mine Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 November 1894 · page 4

A FEARFUL accident happened on Saturday afternoon at the Unity Mine, Bendigo, on Garden Gully reef, when a miner named Richard Langdon was killed, and another named Richard Payne had a…

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Fatal Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 2

A woman named Mrs. Lambert was chopping wood at her house in Surry Hills when the axe rebounded from a clothes line and broke her sk[?]ll,…

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Miscellaneous. Queer Story. an Accident in the Coverts

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 8

FOUR merrier young sportsmen than were travelling down to Taunton by the midday mail of the Great Western Railway on September 29 it would have been difficult to…

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Racing Fatality. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1894 · page 2

The holiday yesterday was not unattended without casualties. Among others four jockeys were injured at country race meetings. Stewart was…

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Drowned During Parents' Absence. Molong

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1894 · page 2

A lad named Kierney was drowned in Doughboy Creek, near Cumnock, yesterday, whilst his parents were absent from home…

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