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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents
223 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 12
ON Saturday evening a party of five -- three young men and two young women -- were crossing the Macquarie River near Minore with a view to providing a surprise party for one of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An English mail train (Great Western), due to arrive at Kingswear at 10.48 a.m., had a narrow escape recently. Just as the vacuum brake was being applied, a quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A verdict of accidental death was recorded in the case of George Alderson, who was caught under the chin on a meat hook at a meat depot in Darling Harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday morning whilst Mr. E. H. Mumford and his brother, Mr. E. A. Mamford, were driving home in a buggy to lunch, the posy shied at some doge in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE load designated as above, and sustaiaed by the railway employees throughout the State, is perhaps one of the most progressive of its kind, and has from its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two trains collided at Risdon, Tasmania, on Saturday, owing to the points being wrongly placed. Several persons were seriously injured. All…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A lad of 5 years of age, son of Mr. James Winters, of the Railway Hotel, had a somewhat miraculous escape from serious accident on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AFTER strenuous and untiring efforts on the part of the search party, headed by Messrs. Sunderland and Colbran, they succeeded in finding the body of Miss Hanchard, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday, a magisterial inquiry was held before Mr. T. C. K. McKell, P.M., into the circumstances surrounding the death of Alice Matilda Hanchard; who was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sailing boat capsized in Sydney harbor yesterday, and one occupant, Mrs. Edith Lawson, was drowned. Three other occupants were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday morning at the Commercial Hotel, Mr. E. Porter, Coroner hold an inquiry on the body of a man found floating in the Bell River the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the hare and rabbit drive at "Oddfield" on Saturday, George Schmidt, son of Mr. Herman Schmidt (late of Quirk, McLeod and Co) was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT Gulargambone, on Wednesday, Mr. Adam M Laughlin, an old selector, met with a fatal shooting. It appears that he was engaged drawing timber, and was carrying a loaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lad names Johnson met with a nasty accident at the polo on Tuesday last He was mounted on a restive pony which proposed at one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES BATES, aged 38, was killed at the Occidental mine, Cobar, on Wednesday, by the explosion of a charge of dynamite. The deceased was a son of Mrs. E. Bates,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Much anxiety prevailed in town on Wednesday morning last when it became known that two miners hud been blown up in the open cut of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN accident occurred at the Occidental mine, Cobar, on Tuesday, when one of the workmen, James Ernest Bates was killed and another man (named Case) was injured. The deceased, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body of Miss Sadin Lawson, the victim of the boating fatality off Blues Point on Sunday week, was found floating near Cockatoo Island…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday last a man named Benjamin Hall, employed on Mr. M. Fallon's Claverton property, near Balladoran, was found lying on the rood from Balladoran to Gilgandra in an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A very sad shooting fatality occurred at Dripstone yesterday, the victim being a fine young lad named James Thomas (Tom) Liddell, eldest…
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