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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Fatal Explosion. at Great Cobar Mine. a Furnace Bursts. Three Men Injured. Burned With Molten Metal. One Succumbes. Cause of Explosion Doubtful

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 8 April 1899 · page 2

Just as people were about to leave their respective homes for the various places of amusement on Eater Monday morning, shortly after 10 o'clock, an…

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Fatality at New Zealand

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 11 April 1899 · page 3

After a fight at Rangura, New Zealand, one of the participants, named Stevens shot himself, owing to the knocking about he received…

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Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 5

An old man named Joseph Davies was knocked down in George- street to- day by a horse and cart. He received injuries which caused his death within an hour…

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Train Fatality. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 5

Mrs. Rand, wife of William Rand, and mother of the Secretary of the Rugby Football Union, fell off a train at A[?] station yesterday, and was kilted…

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Chapter Iii. an Accident at Henley

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 4

If fate oe socident will help I will not quit this most blessed hope. Mr Benjamin Phillips was in love. H. did not question the feet after the evening…

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Accident at Broken Hill

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 5

A man named Matthew Gardiner, has been killed, and another seriously injured through a fall in the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine…

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A Fearful Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 2

A FEARFUL accident occurred on Monday afternoon at Mr. E. H. Deane's Percy-street Coach Factory, Mudgee, when an apprentice, Edgar Halpin, son of Mr. Charles Halpin…

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Disastrous Collision. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 3

The tram collided with a cart in Oxfordstreet last night, and three persons were injured, one S. M'Cormack (a milk vendor) sustained a fracture of the skull, and his…

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Fatal Accident

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 4

On Sunday last Michael Laughlin, a well-known van driver in this district, died from injuries incurred by a full from his van, received the previous…

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A Serious Gun Accident

The Western Herald · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 2

Very early on Wednesday morning last, M. J. Connell, the well-known proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Jandra, was brought by Mr. Will Hatten to the Bourke…

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Railway Collision. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 3

A railway collision occurred in America. Thirty -four persons were killed and fifty injured…

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Terrible Collision

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 5

The Japanese mail steamer brings news of a disastrous collision off the coast of Japan between two steamers. One foundered immediately with 36 hands, and the other was…

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Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 5

Earl Stamford has been decapitated through falling in front of an express train. It is supposed he was seized with a fit…

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Railway Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 26 May 1899 · page 5

A seaman named Alex. Rossman was found last night cut to pieces on the Honeysuckle Point railway…

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Accident to a Well-known Cyclist. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 May 1899 · page 5

Fred Beeson, the well-known racing cyclist, employed in an iron foundry, was fixing a belt round a fly-wheel yesterday when his sleeve caught and drew his arm…

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THE N.Z. Railway Collision. Auckland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1899 · page 5

Curter, charged with manslaughter in connection with Rakara railway collision, has been acquitted…

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A Shooting Fatality. (By Telegraph.) Hungerford, June 6

The Western Herald · Wednesday 7 June 1899 · page 2

George Hall, a carrier, was found dead at his waggon at the Currawinya stock gate yesterday. Apparently he has been accidentally shot. An inquiry will be held to-day…

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The Steeplechase Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1899 · page 3

The jocky Rheese, injured at Randwick last Saturday, is still insensible, and the ehaiice of his recovery is considered small…

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Fatal Accident

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 3

While a youth named John Punch was chopping wood at frarelgon. Victoria, the axe fell out of his hands aun struck his little brother behind…

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Mining Accidents. [By Telegraph.] C[?], June 9

The Western Herald · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 2

Owing to an accident at the [?] Copper Mine that morning, a man named W. Williams sustained first ares to both legs. He was [?] to the hospital…

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