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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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The Manly Collision. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1906 · page 2

The captain of the Manly was on trial yesterday is coanection with the sollieion with an oil launch. Judge Cohea poiated out that a captain…

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A Sad Accident. to Mr. H. Althofer, of Dripstone

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 April 1906 · page 5

A very sad accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at about 4 30 to Mr. Henry Althofer, of Birrill Vale, Dripstone, when he totally lost his eye…

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Elevated Railways. a New York Accident. Burning Wreckage

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 7

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 19th January:— The precipitancy of a workman in…

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Train Without a Driver. Extraordinary Railway Accident

The Castlereagh · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 6

A very extraordinary accident took place on the Essendon railway line, between the Newmarket and Ascot vale stations, Melbourne, on Tuesday…

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Geurie Items. (From Our Own Correspondent) a Serious Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 4

A very serious accident happened here last week to a little boy named Norman Power. Another boy named Herbert Dewar was leading a horse with a saddle,…

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Peculiar Fatality. Supposed Suicide

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 3

THE public of Dubbo were startled on Tuesday (yesterday) morning to hear of the tragic death of a well-known resident-- Mr. Thos. J. S. Morris, for several years in charge of one of the…

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A Seaman Drowned. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 2

By the upsetting of a boat in the Wellington harbour a seaman of the Pegasus was drowned…

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Peculiar Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 2

A peculiar, but painful,.accident happened on Tuesday to Mr. Jamieson, the carrier. He had brought a monkey in a cage for a resident of Newtown, and when…

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Accident to a Horse

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 4

A horse belonging to Mr. O'Brien, baker, met with its death on Thursday through its own waywardness. It had been taken to Mr. Lees' forge in Brisbane street to [?]…

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Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 2

BY a [?] fatality at F[?]ill, Victoria, on Easter Sunday, a lad named Ralph Carson, son of Mr. F. S. Carson, editor of our local contemporary the "Dubbo Liberal," lost his life. The…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 2

A couple named Bailey living on a selection on the Obley road lost a little girl two years and a half under painful circumstances at the end of last week. Mr…

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The Agnes-manly Collision

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 5

The Marine Court to-day gave its decision in the fatal Manly-Agnes collision and found that the accident was the fault of the person navigating the launch Agnes…

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Fatal Accident. Death from Burning

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 4

A LITTLE girl named Bailey was last week admitted to H[?]pet[?]un Hospital under very distressing circumstances. The child, who was only two and a half years of age, was suffering…

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Accident on a Racecourse

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 5

During the hurry scurry race at Gayndah, Queensland, yesterday, five horses fell. A jockey named Pihow was killed, and two others were seriously injured…

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Peculiar Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 2

AT Coonamble, on Wednesday, Mrs. Lemarie, an old and respected resident, was bailing up a cow to milk, when the cow rushed her and honored her in the throat. The injury proved…

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Colliery Accident in Wales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 3

Five men were killed and seven injured on Saturday by a colliery accident in Wales…

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Accident to a Jumper

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 May 1906 · page 5

Orange papers report a serious accident to the famous jumper Bayfield, who with his mate Tancred, have been resting at Orange in anticipation of…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Castlereagh · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 5

A couple named Bailey, living on a selection on the Obley road, lost a little girl two year and a half old under painful circumstances at the end…

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A Clegyman Drowned. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 6

The Rev. H. Jenes, M.A., formerly a minister of St. Andrew's Church, Launceston, has been drowned in the river Tamar…

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Accident to Bayfield

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

A sad accident has happened to Mr. "Mick" Grady's bay gelding Bayfield, the renowned Show Hunter. Mr. Grady had decided not to take part at Wellington show, and was spelling…

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