A Fatal Train Accident
George Finnigan, aged 18, while endeavoring to alight from a moving train at Lowisham railway station, full between the platform and the carriages. A leg wan severed, and he died…
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Accidents, 1909
268 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 10 of 14
Drowning Fatalities
While four children named Clissold were sitting on the banks of the Nepean river at Camion, Gertie, aged six, fell in ; Virginia, aged 13, tried to reach her and overhalancing…
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Bertie Calaby was killed, and several others imprisoned, by a fall of earth at the Berry mine, Victoria. The entombed men were liberated after four hours, one man being badly crushed,…
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An inquiry into the cause of death of Richard Moore, an old age pensioner, who died in the hospital on Saturday, was concluded by Mr. John Collins on…
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The body of a little girl, named Myrtle Richards, aged five years, was found floating in a well at the roar of her parents' residence at Parramatta…
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ON Saturday night Henry Nolan, a Queensland drover belonging to Winton, 'n that State, was found in an unconscious condition on the Coonamble road, at the 13-mile. He was first seen…
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A terrible accident happened at Pallamallawa, near Moree, on Saturday. A young man named Martin was cleaning a pen-rifle, when the weapon exploded. The charge entered the…
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ON Friday afternoon, a little child named Emery met with a severe accident, requiring medical skill. It appears that the child was playing on a gate leading to Brisbane-st, and [?]limbinglupon it…
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Miss Florence Young, an actress, had one of her ribs broken yesterday through a taxicab in which she was travelling on the St, Kilda road capsizing…
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A shocking accident occurred on the railway line a little vest of the Blayney Freez-Works, between 11 and 12 o'clock yesterday, when a man was ran over by a mixed train…
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Mr. J. Sawyer, the secretary to the Farmers' and Settlers' Association local branch, had the misfortune to lose a horse on Wednesday, the day of the Carnival, in…
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Six horses fell in the first race at Epsom, Victoria, yesterday. Two jockeys were injured…
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By overturning his aeroplane after a flight at Boulogne, a French aeronaut was crushed to death…
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A young man named McMaster, son of C. J. McMaster, chairman of the Western Land Board, was washed off the breakwater at Port Kembla last night, and drowned…
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ON Saturday night last, Tpr. Stan. Cross, of the Dubbo half-squadron of the Australian Light Horse, met with a rather painful accident in front of Tattersall's Hotel in…
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ROY BOLTON, a youth residing with the family of Mr. A. McLachlan, met with a nasty accident at the gymnasium at St. Andrew's School Hall on Tuesday evening. While indulging in…
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One of many capsizes in the Harbor on Sunday ended fatally. The victim, Owen Boyle (17), and three others were oot in a sailing boat, which capsized near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sydney Sensation. Ten Buildings Damaged. Five Persons Injured. Sydney,Tuesday
Probably the most sensational explosion in the annale of the city occurred daring Monday morning. The Labor procession was passing along College-street, near…
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Alpine accidents are very numerous in Switzerland this year. A hundred and fifty persons have been killed and many injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Peculiar Accident
AN extraordinary accident happened during the running of the Walter Handicap at West Wyalong course. After the horses started a dust storm swept over the course, and obscured the…
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