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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

227 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 8 of 12

Painful Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1906 · page 3

An employee of the DISPATCH, named F. Salkeld, met with a very painful accident on Monday morning. While at tbe back of one of the machines he incautiously…

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Football Accident

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 18 August 1906 · page 8

A serious accident took place on the Sports Ground Oval at Dubbo last week, at the football match, Waratahs v. Ormondes. Three…

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Dynamite Accident in Mexico

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 18 August 1906 · page 5

By the accidental explosion of a cartload of dynamite in Mexico yesterday, 25 people were killed. Fragments of the bodies were found a [?]away…

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Accident at the Racecourse

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 August 1906 · page 2

Mr. Jack Drew, the well-known trainer and jockey, met with a serious accident at the racecourse on Friday morning, while exercising a young…

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Collision in Scotland

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 3

Seventy passengers have been injured by a railway collision at Salcoats (Ayrshire) railway station…

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A Tram Collision. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 2

A tram collision occurred yesterday morning at the Haymarket. One car lett the rails and collided with one of the steel poles in the centre of the road…

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Mining Fatality

The Castlereagh · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 2

Mr Thames Alies, of Home Rale, while working is his claim at Combasdry, sear Galgong, last Thursday, was [?] to the betters of the sear by a…

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A Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 5

Mr. John McHugh, an hotelkeeper at Uralls, missed the mail train at Armidale on Thursday night, and while attempting to board a special goods train at about 2 o'clock neat morning he…

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The Osborne Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 3

In view of representations in Parliament and elsewhere, a magisterial inquiry into the death of Claude H. Oiborne, who fell from a balcony at the Australian Club on August 22nd, was…

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Accident to a Portuguese Prince

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 3

The brother of the King of Portugal was nearly killed en Sunday by a motor carac[?]ident…

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Sensational Accidents on a Racecourse

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 3

At the Boulder (W.A.) Race Club's meeting on Saturday a remarkable number of accidents occurred. In the hurdle race five Horace fell, three of…

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Fatal Accident to a Cyclist

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 3

A cyclist named .John Ryan, was riding down a steep hill near Lithgow on Sunday, when be lost control of the machine. He was thrown to the ground and fatally injured…

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Accident in a Mine

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 3

A man named Thos. Berryman fell down a shaft a depth of 1000 foot at the Fortune Hunter's Mine at Bendigo yesterday. The body was mangled beyond recognition…

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Sensational Racing Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 2

At the Boulder (W.A.) Race Club Meeting on Saturday a remarkable number of accidents occurred. In the hurdle race five horses fell, three of the jockeys being badly…

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The Combandry Fatality

The Castlereagh · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 4

Says the Gulgong correspondent of the "Mudgee Guardian':—"The Fatality at combandry cast a glo[?] over Home Rule and canadian when…

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Accident at Mount Hope Mine

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 4

WE received word the other day that a serious accident had occurred in the Mount Hope mine, by which a man named W. Preston was jammed by some…

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An Unlucky Team. Accidents at Football

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 3

MESSRS. DALTON BROS.' team has been most unfortunate this season in the number of its players incapacitated at football, during the progress of the various competitions…

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Accident to Earl Grey. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 4

Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, has met with a serious accident. Owing to the explosion of an electric light bulb, the Earl's right eye was nearly…

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Drowning Fatality at Gundagai

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 5 September 1906 · page 3

While two boys were attempting to cross the flooded river at Gundagai in a boat yesterday, one, Herbert Booby, aged twelve became frightened aud jumped out of the craft and was…

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The Accident in the Harbour

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 5 September 1906 · page 3

It is considered practically certain that the occupants of the sailing boat which capsized and sank during the equal in the harbour on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph, of Balmain, both…

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