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Accidents, 1890

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Fatal Buggy Accident. Queanbeyan

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 October 1890 · page 2

James Keefe, a well-known farmer and grazier, residing at Guise's Flat, near Queanbeyan, was found dead on the road, seven miles from town, at 3 o'clock yesterday…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 14 October 1890 · page 3

A single man named James Craig, a station labourer, 35 years of age, met his death at Brookong on Monday, 6th inst., in a most unexpected manner. He and a number of…

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Railway Accidents. Lancet

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 October 1890 · page 2

The annual report made to the Board of Trade upon railway accidents shows that during the year 1889 the mischief arising from this source was somewhat…

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Was it Providence or Accident?

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 4 November 1890 · page 2

Did the finding of that article save the man's life? That is the question. Is there a divinity that [?] our ends? or [?] events but a more [?] which [?] happen to one person as [?]…

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A Steplechase Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 November 1890 · page 2

The greatest regret was expressed in sporting circles and amongst the public generally on Saturday, when it became known that Mr. Alfred Watson, who was injured by a…

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Sad Case of Drowning. an Attempt at Rescue by a Young Girl

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 4

THE Brisbane Courier relates that a sad case of drowning occurred on the afternoon of 27th October at Bromelton, Logan River. The deceased, Ellen Mary O'Keefe, went…

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Fatal Cab Accident in Melbourne. a Strange Story

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 3

THE identification of the young woman who was knocked down by a cab at the corner of Bourke and Russell-streets on the evening of Friday last, and sustained a fractured…

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The Fatal Cab Accident in Melbourne. the Deceased Identified

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1890 · page 4

THE identification of the young woman who died in the Melbourne hospital early on Saturday morning from injuries received in being knocked down by a cab in…

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A Terrible Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1890 · page 3

A SHOCKING accident happened early on Thursday morning in front of the General Post Office, Sydney, by which a man named Duncan M'Intyre, about 30 years of age,…

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Sad Drowning Accident. Swan Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 2

A SAD fatality happened on the Murray Downs Station yesterday morning. Two children of Mr. Macintosh, a gardener, were playing on the bank of the River Murray,…

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Boating Accident at Rose Bay. Mother and Child Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1890 · page 2

ON Monday everning a distressing boating accident happened at Rose Bay, (the Evening News says,) which resulted in the death of a lady named Mrs. Fleming, and her…

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Blasting Accident at Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1890 · page 2

A FATAL accident happened on the Broken Hill South mine about 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. A shift of a party of contractors engaged in sinking on Block 6 drilled and…

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Six Deaths from Drowning

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 3 December 1890 · page 3

Four deaths from drowning occurred in Newcastle on Sunday and Monday. In the first case three boys [?] George and Arthur Wilkinson and Alfred Bray,…

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Accidental Explosion of Powder

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 4

THREE men, named Northeast, Sexton and M. Gaurian, working on Saturday morning last at Grant's Flux quarry, at A[?]a dam, were seriously injured by an explosion of…

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Electric lighting Fatality at Richmond. a Workman Struck Dead

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1890 · page 4

A TERRIBLE fatality accured on Monday evening at the works of the new Australian Electric Lighting Company on the banks of the Yarra in South Richmond. These are…

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The Railway Accident Near Junee. Indentification of the Body

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 2

In the Express of Thursday last appeared a report of an inquest touching the death of a man, name unknown, whose body was found on the railway line between Junee and…

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