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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Awful Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 16 June 1899 · page 5

A boy named Julius Magewski was caught to-day in the shaft of the Yarraville sugar works, Melbourne, and dashed to death…

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Accident to Acting-judge Harris. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1899 · page 5

Acting-Judge Harris was thrown out of a buggy near Tamworth yesterday. He had his right arm fractured…

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Fatal Accident on a Football Field. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1899 · page 5

Charier Grunes, who was seriously injured while playing in a football match on Sydney Cricket Ground on the 3rd inst., died in the hospital last…

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A Military Balloon Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 20 June 1899 · page 2

LONDON, June 15. -- A military balloon at Rome was curried away from its moorings by a high wind and ascended to a great height. A soldier, who was in the car attached, was…

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Collision on a German River. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1899 · page 2

The steamers Blucher and Pallitz collided en the river Oder in Germany. The former vessel sank, and 50 passengers, mostly women and children were drowned…

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Copper Mine Casualty. Man Falls Down a Pass. Succession of Accidents

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 3

The Cobar Copper Mine has been singularly unfortunate during the present year. Accident upon accident has occurred and it does seem as if the…

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Fatal Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 June 1899 · page 3

An old man, Geo. Gardiner, was crushed to death to-day by a lift accident at Ellis's Coffee Palace, King-street…

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Serious Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 5

A serious accident occurred on board the ship Marlon Ballantyne, at Newcastle, yesterday. One of the windlass bars struck a man named Thomas on the head, killing him…

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Fatal Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Carr Dawson, well known for the past twenty years in connection with the firm of Atcherley and Dawson, recently broke his leg in stepping from a…

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Saw Mill Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 5

A workman employed at Reidy's saw mills, Grafton, came in contact with a saw which completely cut away the side of his face, including the check bone and one eye. and part…

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Bicycle Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 3

AN old woman named Mrs. Carter, who had just reached town from the western districts, while passing along the footpath in Talbragar street just outside the…

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An Accidental Rhyme

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 July 1899 · page 1

In the old days of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, an actor named Dewar went one morning to the premises of a publican named Scott, patronised by the…

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Terrible Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 3

A terrible fatality is reported from Ballarat. An elderly couple named Shelly were burnt to death in a two roomed cottage, which caught fire, through a lamp upsetting…

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Jockeys Injured

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 3

Mooney, Smith, and Allen, jockeys who rode in the Grand National Steeplechase, were injured…

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The Accident of Birth

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 July 1899 · page 3

Speaking on Monday night at the Salvation Army meeting, Mr. Wise said he often thought in court it was only by an accident that he was not behind the "spikes" instead…

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Drowned

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

Mrs. Vauser, a miner a wife at Broken Hill, was found drowned in a tank with her child…

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Accident to Mrs. Gladstone. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 3

Mrs. W. E. Gladstone was thrown from her carriage into a ditch to-day while driving through Hawarden grounds. She is now suffering from nervous shock…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 28 July 1899 · page 4

ON Wednesday afternoon, a lad named John Fogarty, aged 17 years, son of an employe on the railway line, went out shooting with six other boys. One of them named Madden had a…

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Tram Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 28 July 1899 · page 5

A little girl named Annie Gunning, whilst returning from school at Balmain yesterday, was knocked down by a tram, and carried 25 yards. She miraculously escaped with a few…

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Shooting Fatality

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 2

A SAD fatality occurred on Wednesday afternoon about 5 o'clock, when a youth named John Thomas Fogarty, aged 16, son of a railway employee residing in Dubbo,…

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