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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Peculiar Accident at Werris Creek

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 3

A sensational railway accident occurred at Werrie Creek this rooming to the north-western mail train. Shortly after leaving the junction for Sydney, two oars turned a complete…

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The Latest Telegrams. Sensational Train Accident. At Werris Creek. ~ jSydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 2

A sensational accidant happened at Werris Creek this morning. The northwest mail, which left Sydney last night, was leaving Werris Creek junction, when…

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Serious Railway Accident. at Werris Creek. Train Takes Wrong Points. Many Passengers Injured. Sydney

The Cobar Herald · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 5

A serious railway accident took place at Werris Creek this morning, when the North-Western mail left for Sydney. After leaving the platform, the load…

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Severe Burning Accident

The Cobar Herald · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 5

Mrs. Ellen West, residing at Balmain, was severely burnt this morning through her clothes catching fire whilst attending to the fire. Her husband also sustained…

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The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Limited

The Cobar Herald · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 7

The fact that the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, has by far the largest Accident Premium Income of any office…

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A Guard Injured. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 4

On the arrival of the North-Western mail train from Sydney at Singleton shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the guard, Jas. Ryan, was found lying un…

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Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred at Melbourne yesterday. A contractor named John Connolly, whilst endeavouring to enter the carriage of a morning train, fell on the line and was…

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Accident to a Guard

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 5

On the arrival of the north-western mail at Singleton, on Thursday, shortly after midnight Guard James Ryan, was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood in the brakevan…

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Serious Burning Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 4

Mrs. Ellon West, who resides at Balmain, was severely burned yesterday morning. While in the act of removing some fire from under a copper for the purpose of…

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Fatal Accident to a College Boy. An Acetylene Gas Explosion

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 2

A BOY named Sydney Thomas G[?]dener aged 15½, residing at Asbfield -- a pupil of St. Stanislaus College, Bathurst, who had gone home for the midwinter vacation-- was examining an…

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Serious Railway Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 4

A serious accident occurred on the Aberdare line (Maitland district) yesterday. The van next to the engine of a train containing 30 passengers…

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Accident to University' Students

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 5

While the students of the University High School at Melbourne were being shown over the Fitzroy Gasworks yesterday, the platform collapsed, and twenty-two boys were…

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Accident at a Gasworks. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 4

Thirty school boys and their teacher were inspecting the Fitzroy gasworks when the staging collapsed, and the boys were precipitated twenty feet to the [?]ved floor,…

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Mr. C. H. Barton. Victim of a Buggy Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 July 1907 · page 2

All sections of the community heard with real concern of the accident met with by Mr. C. H. Barton, of Nanima, on Thursday night last…

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Sad Burning Fatality

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

On Saturday morning last a little girl of nine years named Jaae Hourigan, daughter of Mr. P. Hcurigan, of Burrabadeen, met with a distressing accident, which,…

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Accident to Mr. C. H. Barton. Will be Incapacitated for some Weeks

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

MR. C. H. BARTON, of Nanime, the candidate for the electorate in the Liberal and Reform interest, met with a very severe accident while campaigning last week…

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Fatal Accident. A Child Burnt to Death

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

ON Saturday morning a sad accident took place near Whylandra, by which a girl named Jane Hourigan, eight years of age, daughter of Mr. P. Hourigan, of that locality, sustained fatal…

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Accident to Major Barton

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

Considerable regret was expres od in town on-Saturday morning when it become known that Major Barton, the Liberal candidate for the Macquarie, had met…

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Railway Accident. Smash at Mullion Creek

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 3

A railway accident occurred at Mullion Creek about half-past seven o'clock last Saturday morning. Goods engine No 38, which was proceeding…

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Accident to Major Barton

The Castlereagh · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 7

Major C. H. Barton, selected Liberal candidate for the Macquarie seat, [?] returning to Wellington on Thured [?] night after addressing a meeting a…

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