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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Accidentally Shot

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 3

Richard Rutter, proprietor of a shooting gallery at Ballarat, was accidentally shot dead last night by a boy aged 12, with a pea-rifle…

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Mine Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 3

One of the managers of the ruined Castle shale mine near Katoomba was, with a miner, lost for three days in the workings. They were subseqnently…

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Accident to a Shunter. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 5

John Connell, 24, was engaged in shunting goads waggons at Redfern today, when his foot caught in the points and he was held down while a heavily…

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ACCIDENT. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 6

Coming to town this morning along the Parramatta Road a cart collided with a tram; Mr. R. Davieson, M.P., who was a passenger, had his right leg…

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Coach Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 2

A serious coach accident has occurred at Wentworth. Several passengers were injured…

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Mine Accident at Broken Hill

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 3

A fatal accident occurred at Broken Hill on Saturday night, through a fall of rock. G. Gaobel, miner, was killed, and J.E. Montgomery, trucker, had his leg broken…

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Fatal Accident to Mr. J. E. McLerie. Killed on the Gilgandra-Mundooran Road

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 2

ON Saturday, Mr. John E. McLerie, Assistant Forest Ranger in the Gilgandra district, was the victim of a fatal accident. The deceased, who was the grandson of the late Capt. McLerie,…

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Fatal Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 2

On Saturday a shocking and most regrettable accident occurred on the Gilgandra-Mundooran road, whereby Mr. John E. M'Lerie, a well known and much-respected…

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Fatal Mining Accident. at Cobar Gold Mines. Mr. Samuel Mitchell Killed Through a Fall of Earth

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 2

QUITE a shock was caused in town yesterday afternoon when it became known that a fatal mining accident had occurred at the Cobar Gold Mines, Ltd…

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Fatal Accident in Victoria

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 5

Two miners were yesterday crushed to death by a fall of stone in the Francis Ormond mine, Chewton, Victoria…

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Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 4

MRS. H. ELLIOTT, of Newtown, and mother of Mrs. H. S. Porter, of "Tattersall's" Hotel met with a very nasty and painful accident on Wednesday last. Mrs. Elliott, whilst gardening…

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Fatal Buggy Accident

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 28 April 1903 · page 2

A fatal buggy accident occurred at Gilgandra on Saturday evening 18th inst. Mr. John M’Lerie. of the Forestry Department, was driving a pair of horses…

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Fatal Accident at Girilambone. Dubbo Fireman Killed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 April 1903 · page 2

ABOUT 12.35 on Sunday morning a fireman named Arthur Neild, a resident of Dubbo, was killed by a train accident at Girilambone. It appeared that the…

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Fatal Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1903 · page 2

About 12.30 on Sunday morning a terrible accident occurred on the railway line near Girilambone. Whilst A. Neild and A. McDonald, the fireman and driver of…

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Last Week's Mining Fatality. the Inquest

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 5

An inquest into the death of the unfortunate man, Samuel Mitchell, whose death we reported last issue, was commenced at Wrightville on…

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Skeleton*. a Fatality and Its Sequel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 6

FATAL accident is 1820. which many years later culminated is a most curieuj sequel. The story is told at some length in Stephen…

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Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 4

DURING the football play on the Oval on Wednesday last between the Warrior and Railway clubs a young man named W. Fitzgerald, son of Mr. W. Fitzgerald, engineer at the…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 May 1903 · page 2

While engaged, during the late flood in the Macquarie, getting out logs and debris from the well-hole of the Lady Macquarie Dredging Co's. dredge, James Maher slipped…

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A Serious Accident

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 12 May 1903 · page 3

Mrs, Murphy of Koorawatha, was the victim of a somewhat peculiar and very serious experience on Sunday last under the following circumstances…

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Accidentally Drowned. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 May 1903 · page 3

The body of Miss Whalley, daughter of an English resident at Moscow, who was originally supposed to have been abducted by monks, has been discovered…

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