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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Narromine. (From Our own Correspondent.) Sulky Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 2

Another Balky accident occcurred in the main thoroughfare last Monday morning, whereby a sulky belonging to Mr. F. Mack was practically demolished. The horse,…

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Accident to Mr. John Tink

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 2

We regret to reporta very serious accident which befell Mr. John Tink, of Benalong, on Sunday. It appears that about duek he went out after the cows according to his usual…

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Fatal Accident at the Copper Mine. Young Man Named Jackson Killed by a Fall of Earth

The Cobar Herald · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 5

On Wednesday evening a fatal accident occurred at the Great Cobar mine, when a young man named Jackson was killed by a fall…

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Injured in a Tram Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 5

Frederick Laster, a financial agent, has died an the result of injuries received in a tram accident on October 2nd…

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Fatal Accident in Centennial Park

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 5

A shocking fatality occurred in Centennial Park last night. Mrs. Neal, aged 36, and her aunt, Mrs. Rex, aged 60, were walking in the Park when a cyclist rode into them, knocking…

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Peculiar Accident to a Train

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 5

Travelling at a speed of 40 miles an hour an engine and a goods train ran on to a bridge near Wiltinede, Queensland, from which three lengths of rail had been removed. After…

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Accident to Mr. Doswell

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 November 1908 · page 2

A peculiar accident happened to Mr Doswell, sanitary inspector, at the meeting of the Waterloo Council on Friday evening. While Mr. Doswell…

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Great Cobar Fatality

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 24 November 1908 · page 3

The inquest which we referred to as having commenced on Thursday last into the death of the young man William Jackson, killed at the…

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Accident to a Fettler

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 25 November 1908 · page 2

A FETTLER named Williams, residing about half a mile from the station and on the line to Wongarbon, met with a serious accident on Sunday. He had discharged a pea rifle…

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Shooting Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 November 1908 · page 2

Mr. W. G. Williams, a fettler on the line, was the viotim of an accident with a pea rifle on Monday last. It appears that seeing a rabbit among his tomatoes be took…

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Accident in Nanima Crescent

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 4

What might have proved a nasty accident was witnessed in the main street yesterday afternoon. Mr. L. S. Teece and two girls, named Taylor and…

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Leveret-airlie Collision

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 5

The Marine Court suspended the certificate of Peter Eckman, master of the tug Leveret, for five months, in connection with the collision with the steamer Airlie…

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A Jockey Drowned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 5

Arthur Richardson, the jockey who rode Clean Sweep to victory in the Melbourne Cup, was drowned while beaching in the river Clarence at Ulmarra…

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Bathing Fatality. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 4

While bathing in the river at Ulmarra, Arthur Richardson, a jockey, was drowned, Richardson rode the Melbourne Cap winner, Clean Sweep, in 1900…

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A Peculiar Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 3

At the Federal Jetty, Franklin (Tasmania), a serious accident occurred the other day. The steamer Huon had just unloaded a ton of floor into Jabez Norris's…

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An Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 28 November 1908 · page 4

A young fellow while loading wheat from Holeod Co.'s wheat shed at Georis onto the trucks, owing to the boards he was travelling on slipping, fell onto the railway…

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Sad Fatality at Coolah. MR. A. S. Stephenson Killed Suddenly, While Mustering Sheep

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 1 December 1908 · page 2

Quite a gloom was cast over Coolah and district on Tuesday afternoon, when it became known that Mr. Archie Stephenson was killed suddenly while…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 8 December 1908 · page 3

Considerable consternation and Borrow were caused in Cobar in Friday forenoon last when it became known that a young [?]named Henry…

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Big Railway Smash Two Killed and Others Injured

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 December 1908 · page 5

Shortly after 7 o'clock on Tuesday night, a goods train bound for Sydney had a sensational experience on the stiff up-grade of the ZigZag, near…

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Zig Zag Railway Accident

The Cobar Herald · Friday 11 December 1908 · page 4

On Tuesday night a rather serious railway accident occurred at the Zig Zag. A portion of an up goods train broke away at Clarence…

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