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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Serious Street Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 2

AN accident of a singular and serious nature occurred at the intersection of Talbragar- street of and Carrington Avenue on Monday last. Mrs. Hourigan, wife of a farmer at Minore, who…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident happened to a man named Robert Hargraves at Gilgatulra on Wednesday last. His hand was somehow caught in a pulley through which a wire rope passed,and…

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A Chapter of Fatalities. By Fire and Water. Sad Drowning Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 7

Bathurst, Friday.—Two boys, Jack Sullivan (11 years old), and Graham Gilmour (10 years), were drowned under sad circumstances yesterday. The boys were song of…

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Fatal Accident. Death of ex-Alderman P. Kenehan

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 5

News was conveyed to Wellington on Saturday night that Mr. Patrick Kenehan, an ex-Alderman of Wellington, but at the time a resident of Sydney, had met with…

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Fatality at Talbragar

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 4

ON Monday last a man named Richard Thomas met with a singular and melancholy death at Talbragar. From investigations made it has transpired that the deceased was…

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Railway Fatality at Orange

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 4

THE "Western Advocate" of Wednesday last publishes the following particulars of a fatal railway accident. About half-past three on Tuesday afternoon a fatal accident happened at…

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Fatal Accident at Trangie

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 4

THE District Coroner (Mr. R. G. Dulhunty) held and inquiry at Trangie on Tuesday last, concerning the death of a man named Samuel Tanswell, who died from injuries received by…

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Fire at Curranyalpa. a Young Woman Burnt to Death. Her Step Father Seriously Injured

The Western Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1902 · page 2

On Sunday Superintendent Carter received a wire which stated that on Saturday night a fire occurred in a four-roomed cottage at Mr. H. C. Suttor's Curranyalpa…

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Fatal Accident at Trangie

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 10 January 1902 · page 3

On Tuesday last Mr. R. G. Dolhunty, J.P., coroner, conducted at Traigie a magisterial enquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of S…

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DROWNED. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 3

Frederick James Stewart, a native of Parramat[?]a, New South Wales, lately serving with the Imperial Yeomanry, has been found drowned in the Thames…

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Collision Between Russians and Americans. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 4

A serious collision has occurred at New Chwang, China, between Russian soldiers, and soldiers belonging to the United States gunboat…

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A Fatal Accident. Death of Mr. W. Dugan

The Western Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 2

"Ill news [?]ies space." and at an early hour on Wednesday morning last the whole town was startled by the information that Mr. W. Dugan, the youngest surviving son…

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Railway Accident. London, January 9

The Western Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 2

Seventeen people were killed and 40 injured in a railway collision in a tunnel New York…

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Fatal Racing Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 4

A BOURKE telegram states that an accident by which a lad named William Dugan, youngest son of Mrs. E. Dugan, met his death, occurred on Wednesday morning last. It appears that…

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Drowning Fatality

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1902 · page 2

Early this (Friday) morning, information was conveyed to the police that a man had been found drowned in the Macquarie river, near tho old…

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Fatal Accident

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1902 · page 2

It is our sad duty to chronicle the demise of one of our most respected townsmen, in the person of Mr. James Davis, who succumbed on…

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A Double Drowning Fatality. Sydney, January 17

The Western Herald · Saturday 18 January 1902 · page 2

A terrible drowning fatality occurred at Manly this morning. A large number of ladies, gentleman and children were bathing on the ocean beach when Mabel Thorpe…

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Forty Drowned. London, January 16

The Western Herald · Saturday 18 January 1902 · page 2

Forty miners have been drowned in Bohemia owing to the flooding of a mine…

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CABLEGRAMS. Kruger advised to surrender. 40 Miners Drowned. LONDON

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 18 January 1902 · page 2

Forty miners have been drowned in Bohemia owing to the flooding of a mine. Kruger has been advised that the…

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Sad Drowning Cases

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 January 1902 · page 2

Manly, the Brighton of New South Wales, was on Friday morning the scene of an accident which cast a gloom over the popular pleasure resort. Probably the majority of…

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