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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 December 1903 · page 3

Two miners, named Adams and Sullivan, were yesterday killed by a full of earth in the Great Boulder Perseverance mine, Kalgoorlie…

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Drowning Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 1

Two boys, James McCelland and Hugh [?]auro were drowned whilst bathing in a dam Cambelltown yesterday…

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Accident to a Race Horse

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 1

White training at Kensington this morning [?] race horse Ballarat collided with a post which penetrated his breast. He died in a few [?]…

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Gilgandra. Buggy Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 5

ON Monday morning Mrs. Delaney and Mrs. Hedges, two well-known resident of Gilgandra district, were the victims of a severe accident. They were proceeding from the township to…

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Accident to Mr. R. C. Dul Hunty

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 3

WHILST Mr. R. G. Dulhunty was driving home to lunch to-day (Friday) he dropped a letter out of the buggy as he passed the Soapworks. He polled up and alighted to…

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Collision

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 3

AN accident occurred on Sunday evening last on the Mudgee road, resulting in the smash up of a buggy. Mr. E. G. Adams, J.P., and Miss Adams were driving home…

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Fearful Burning Fatality. Woman Burnt to Death

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 December 1903 · page 2

A little after twelve o'clock on Saturday light residents of the lower part of East Wellington were awakened by hearing the screams of a woman coming from the…

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Dreadful Accident. Killed by a Passing Train

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 3

A dreadful accident happened on the railway line between Moo[?] Ponds and Essendon (Vic.) last Tuesday, when John Anderson a resident of Hunter-street…

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Terrible Fatality at the Gravel Pits. Two Boys Drowned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 2

THE town of Dubbo was thrown into consternation on Monday evening by a report that two [?] residing in the eastern part of the town had been found drowned in the waterhole at the…

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Sad Drowninc Fatality

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 3

Two Boys Drowned at the Gravel Pits. A BAD drowning fatality occurred at the Corporation gravel pits some time on…

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Drowned While Bathing

The Western Herald · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, a sad case of drowning took place in the billabong below Warmoll's old slaughter yards, Bourke. A young lad…

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Alpine Fatality. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 1

Mr. Goodell, journalist, of Keswick, Cumberland, who recorded the disaster on Scafell in September last, has been killed almost in the same spot. He…

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Railway Collision. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 3

On Sunday night the wind extinguished a signal light on the Pete Murguette railway, Michigan, (U.S.A.) A collision followed killing 18 persons and injuring 31 others…

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The Collision Off Queensland

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 3

It is rumoured that when the collision occurred between the Coogee and the Fortunate Figari, several members of the crew of the former deserted the steamer for a sailing vessel…

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A Sad Fatality. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 1

A shocking affair is reported from Naples. Some peasants were engaged in making fireworks, when an explosion occurred, killing eight and injoring five…

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The Coogee Collision. Sydney, Tuesday. It was rumoured that when the collision occurred several of the members of

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 1

the crew deserted the steamer for the "Fortunate Figari." The crew, however, state that the boats of the Coogee were stove in and that they went aboard…

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Accident. To the Christmas Postman

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 2

ON Saturday morning, while delivering from door to door the heavy mail that is so marked a feature of Christmas time, Mr. A Blatchford, the assistant postman, was thrown heavily from…

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Accident to a Letter Carrier

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 3

On Saturday last, Mr. Arthur Blatchford letter cattier, was delivering the mails in Brisbane-street; when near the Court House he blew his whiatle several times…

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Another Drowning Fatality a Boy the Victim

The Wellington Times · Thursday 31 December 1903 · page 2

Within the last three months the Macquarie River at and near Wellington has claimed no less than three victims. Recollections of the sad end of young Dutfield…

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Holiday Accidents and Fatalities

The Wellington Times · Thursday 31 December 1903 · page 2

A young man, named Frank Monaghan, 25, lately employed at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, was killed on Saturday morning by a fall from an upper window into the…

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