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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1861

6 stories in Riverina's papers

The Treatment of Drowned Persons

The Wynyard Times · Friday 17 May 1861 · page 2

The following plan for the treatment of persons who accidentally get drowned, has been supplied us by one of our medical gentlemen, and is the system adopted by the Humane…

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Local & District Items. ACCIDENT

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 18 June 1861 · page 2

On Thursday evening last at about seven o'clock, a bullock-driver, known by the cognomen of " Sailor Jack," a Yankee, came in a drunken state to the " Woolpack Inn," and after indulging in the most…

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Local & District Items. Mining Accident

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 25 June 1861 · page 2

A very serious accident, we regret to state, occurred in Mr. Crouch's claim, on tho Victoria Reef, by which a miner narrowly escaped destruction. It would appear that two men were Working in a drive…

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BURRANGONG. Apprelension of three of the Rioters. Serious collision between the authorities and the diggers. Several lives lost. Evacuation of the Camp

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 23 July 1861 · page 4

The following particulars respecting the late riotous proceedings at Burrangong, was published as an Extraordinary on Friday last. We understand the authorities lately at…

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Select Poetry. the Drowned at Sea

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 27 August 1861 · page 4

Never bronze clab of atone May their sepulchre denote ; O'er their burial-place, alone, Shall the shilling sea-weed float…

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Local & Colonial Items. Melancholy and Fatal Accident by Lightening

The Wynyard Times · Friday 22 November 1861 · page 2

It is our painful duty to record one of the most [?]holy catastrophes that perhaps ever occurred in this district, and illustrating, also I too truly, the scriptural writings --" In…

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