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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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The Bendigo Accident. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 3

The following deaths have occurred in connection with the railway accident near Bendigo yesterday:—John Langley. B. Burston; Miss Blanche Hoskins is…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

A SAD death by accidental shooting occurred on Tuesday evening, the Rev. John Fitzgerald, a Roman Catholic priest, being the victim. The [?] gentleman, who had been in a delicate…

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Mail Coach Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 3

The mail coach from Grafton to Glen Innes has been capsized. The driver, Nicholas Dix, was killed…

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War Extra to the Western Herald. Friday, January 13, 1903. The Fight at Ladysmith. Tremsadoas Loss on Both Sides. The Boers are now near Colenso. Free Staters Sacrificed. Methuen's Spine is Injured. (By Cable.) London, January 13

The Western Herald · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 5

The British losses at Ladysmith totalled 48 officers and 800 men killed and wounded. The Boer losses are estimated at 2500. All the avialable Boer forces from Pugela…

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Fatal Accident. One Man Killed

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 2

On Wednesday morning, about 9-30 a man named Thomas 'Edward Davis was killed in the Great Cobar Copper Syndicate's tank excavation by a fall of earth. It…

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Chances of Railway Accidents.--

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 7

Only one passenger is killed in 6,947,131 railway journeys, and only one in 568,402 is so much as injured, a new Board of Trade Blue Book tells us. During 1898…

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Accidentally Drowned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 30 January 1900 · page 2

At Swanhill, on the Murray River, J. G. M'Carty and his two sons were accidentally drowned yesterday…

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The Narromine Fatality

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1900 · page 4

An inquest was opened at Narromine Courthouse on 23rd inst., before Mr. R. G. Dulhunty, J.P., District Coroner, into the circumstances connected with the death of a…

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Some Stage Accidents

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 7

ONE of those unrehearsed incidents which called for extra smartness on the part of the performer if he wishes to avoid appearing ridiculous occurred at a…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 2

Just as we go to press we learn that a railway accident occurred last (Thursday) night, at Maryvale, when a Mr. McMillan and his daughter were run…

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Fatal Mining Accidents

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 5

Two more fatal mining accidents have occurred at Broken Hill, the victims being Charles Blake and a lad named Patrick Lynch. The former's body was terribly mutilated, the…

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A Terrible Fatality

The Western Herald · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 2

A horrible accident with fatal results, occurred on Thursday night on the railway line dose to Maryvale, near Wellington. From the meagre details to hand it seems…

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The Hurman Fatality

The Western Herald · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 2

We have received further particulars from Mr. J. Adelph, the leader of the search party, concerning the finding of the body of Mr. H. Hurman at Myrtle Vale, near Louth,…

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Double Fatality on the Railway

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 5

A VERY sad fatality occurred on the railway line about 10.30 on Thursday evening. A fettler named M'Millan, residing on the line just beyond Maryvale station, was,…

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Shocking Railway Fatality

The Wellington Times · Monday 12 February 1900 · page 2

Late last Thursday night the residents of Wellington were shocked and startled by news of an appalling fatality on the railway line, near Maryvale station, whereby the spirits of a father and daughter…

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Boating Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 3

A sailing boat containing persons was capsized between the Heads yesterday afternoon. Two of the occupants, Mrs. Bell and Mr. Leu were drowned. The others narrowly…

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Yatching Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 3

A yatching accident occurred in [?] Harbour, New Zealand. Four persons were drewned…

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The Fatal Railway Accident at Maryvale

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 13 February 1900 · page 2

A CORONER'S inquest was held in Wellington on Saturday into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Angus McMillan and his daughter Kate, who were run over by train on Thursday…

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District News. Bodangora. Accident Fund News

The Wellington Times · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 5

A public meeting was held in the Library Society's building on Tuesday night for the purpose of dealing with the payment of doctors' accounts re Crumlin and Kelly, the…

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Dynamite Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5

Two miners, named Henry Wren and John Davies, were killed by a dynamite explosion at Kalgoorlie…

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