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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1872

22 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2

The Wisconsin Horror.—thirty-two Persons Drowned in a Well

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1872 · page 4

AN eye-witness of the recant devastating fires near Uniontown, Wisconsin, relates an incident, occurring during the conflagration, which is absolutely unparalleled in the history of all similar horrors…

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An Accident and Its Consequences. (From the Gippsland Times, December 30.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 10 January 1872 · page 3

A PROOF that some at all events of our colonial youth inherit the endurance and determination of their race, was afforded by the circumstances attending an accident…

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A Life of Accidents

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1872 · page 4

THERE are some people in the world whose lives are a succession of accidents—such as bone[?]breakings, throws from horses, shipwrecks, et hoc genus. They are as a rule scarcely…

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A Horrible Accident

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1872 · page 2

AN infant, the child of Sarah and and Thomas M'Guiness, came to its death on Tuesday in a truly horrible manner. The unhappy mother, it appeared from evidence adduced at the inquest, had…

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Horrible Accident—a Child Burnt to Death

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 2 March 1872 · page 4

AN infant, the child of Sarah and Thomas M'Guinness (says the Castlemaine Representative) came to its death on Tuesday in a truly horrible manner…

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The Railway Accident Near Cannes

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 5

THE terrible accident on the railway that runs along the shore of the Mediterranean, parallel with the Corniche road, from Marseilles to Mentone, and thence on to the…

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Fearful Accident

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 5

AN accident attended with fatal results occurred on Friday evening at the Murdohead [?]rry, Blackhill, near Peterhead, leased by Messrs. Fraser and Sons, granite, polishers,…

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Drowning

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1872 · page 6

As many lives are annually lost by drowning, the following may be found useful in the bush and everywhere when the services of a medical man are not immediately…

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An Injured Husband's Revenge

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1872 · page 4

A drama, which on Recount of the rank of two of the chief personages painfully reminds one of the affair of the Due de Praslin, took place a day or two ago in the Rue de Ecoles,…

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Disastrous Collision in the Channel. Hastings, Thursday Evening

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1872 · page 3

Another collision has taken place in the Channel— this time off the coast of Hastings. The North German Company's screw steamship the Baltimore, of Bremen, homeward bound, with a…

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Collision on the Williamstown Line

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1872 · page 4

ON Saturday last a collision occurred on the William-town line between a passenger train and a portion of a goods train, but, fortunately, no damage ensued beyond the…

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Frightful Accident to an Aeronaut

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1872 · page 5

THE balloon ascension connected with Noyes' circus is one of the show's great cards. Every afternoon immense crowds congregate on the bluffs to witness it Yesterday the…

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Fatal Accident at D[?]

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 28 August 1872 · page 4

A VERY mel[?] and fatal accident on Tuesday morning last held on old colonist and mush esteemed resident of Keysborough, near Dundonong, named Mr. William Keys…

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Sunstroke in New York. Alarming Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 4 September 1872 · page 4

No FEWER than 1000 cases of sunstroke have, it is said, occurred in New York in a single week, and the number of deaths has been 200. In other cities…

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The Late Railroad Accident in Canada. Statement of a Survivor. (From the New York Standard.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 4

MR. ROBERT NELSON RODDY, who was on the train during the late accident on the Grand Trunk, Railway, makes the following statement of the horrible…

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News by the Californian Mail. Shocking Railway Accident

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 4

Belleville, Canada June 22.—The night express went down past this place at 2 20 this morning, fall of passengers, among whom were many ministers of the English Church…

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Death by Lighting—fearful Coal Mine Accident.—railroad Accident in West Virginia

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 4

Four men, on July 5, took refuge at Boston, from a shower in a building on Governor's Island when the lighting struck the building and killed three of them.—The ship…

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Local Intelligence. Loral Lamentable Deaths by Drowning

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1872 · page 2

WE regret to record the deaths by drowning of Mr. Henry Shadowsky, an old and well-known resident in this town, and a man named Bourke, who was in the employ of Mr. M. Higgins up to the…

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Found Drowned

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 2

IN last issue we stated that the body of a man, believed to be that of the missing Mr. G. D. D. Pilkington, had been found. It seems, however, that we have not as yet discovered…

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A Lady Drowned

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1872 · page 4

The young ladies of Miss Norman's school at Bristol went out bathing, and one of the governesses got out of her depth and was drowned. Tho scene is described as very…

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