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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 December 1906 · page 6

While engaged in driving a team of horses in Mr. Johnston's yard at Wuuluman yesterday, a young man named Fred Munn was jammed…

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Dreadful Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 5

At Corrimal Balgowrie Colliery yesterday, the brake boy Leslie O'Connor was caught in some machinery. The body was severed below the abdomen…

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Terrible Fatality at Bathurst. A Senior Constable of Police Accidentally Poisoned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 4

THE "Bathurst National Advocate" reports that on Thursday night Senior-constable Leonard, officer in charge of the Police Station at Perth, died in the Bathurst District Hospital from…

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Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 5

Miss Gladys Davies, daughter of Mr. J. W. Davies, the Victorian Attorney-General, was drowned at Port Arlington yesterday, through the over-turning of a boat…

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Motoring Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 4

On Monday evening Mr. John Strahorn, Dr. Corf, and a chauffeur were motoring to Peak Hill. When about a mile away the car collided with a sulky, wrenching a…

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Boating Fatality

The Wellington Times · Monday 31 December 1906 · page 2

The boat Blue Spec capsized in Moreton Bay on Saturday and two of the crew (William Taylor and Percy Ringer) were drowned…

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Accident on the Line

The Wellington Times · Monday 31 December 1906 · page 2

Charles Taylor, a line repairer, and his wife were travelling on a railway tricycle near Seymour (Victoria) when they were run over by a train. Mrs…

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