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Accidents, 1891

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The Mysterious Railway Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 April 1891 · page 2

On the arrival of the 10.40 p.m. train from Brighton Beach at Princes-bridge station on Monday (the Age says), the driver reported that his train had run over something…

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Accident to the Paper Train

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 2

A RAILWAY accident, fortunately unattended with any serious consequences, occurred at Culcairn, at 12:30 on Thursday night. It appears that the paper train which should…

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Railway Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 6

A SERIOUS accident occurred at 1.15 yesterday at the Culcairn railway station. It appears that the express to Sydney had received the usual signal that the line was…

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The Culcairn Railway Accident. Drivers Suspended

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 4

An Albury report says:—Mr.K.Cummings, of Darlington Point, who was one of the passengers in the Hay train when the collision ocourred with the Sydney express at…

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The Railway Collision at Culcairn. Finding of the Boabd of Inquiry Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1891 · page 2

THE Railway department has made full inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the Sydney express and the mixed train from Hay to Albury, which…

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Fire at Broken Hill. a Man Burned to Death. Another Seriously Injured. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1891 · page 2

FIBES have been of frequent occurrence in Bioken Hill lately, but one of the most serious, as far at loss of life is concerned, occurred late on Friday night. It broke out…

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Fatal Lift Accident at the Grand Hotel. a Terrible Death

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1891 · page 2

ANOTHER terrible lift accident (the Argus says) occurred on Saturday morning at the Grand Hotel, resulting to the death of the night porter, James Smith, who is a married…

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fatal Accident to a Tramcar Driver

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1891 · page 2

ABOUT 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning a man was found in a dying oondition on the Beaumaris tram-rails. A car with a horse attaohed was standing near. It appears that a special…

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An Extraordinary Fatality. Death in a Chimney. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1891 · page 2

WHILE lighting a fire in the cookhouse at the Randwick racecourse this morning a cook named Wm. Horan, in the employ of Mr. Foster, the caterer, noticed that the…

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Accident on the Railway Line at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1891 · page 2

A SLIGHT accident occurred ou the railway line near the station on Tuesday evening, whereby a railway employee named William Knight received some nasty bruises, and…

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Remarkable Railway Accident in America

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1891 · page 6

A REMARKABLE accident occured to a mail train on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Chicago Railway, near Indianapolis. The train was running at the rate of…

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Found Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 2

AT about half past 5 o'clock.yesterday evening a had named Waters, who resides at North Waggs, reported to Constable Gilltrap that he had seen the dead body of a mm…

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Buggy Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1891 · page 3

A NASTY accident happened on Monday night, on the Albury road about a milo from town, whereby a youug man named Lloyd received some nasty cuts and bruises, It…

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Nearly Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1891 · page 4

A man named Palmer volunteered to take some provisions to persons working at the bridge. The water was very deep and the task proved a perilous one. He persisted…

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The Accident on Board H.M.S. Cordelia. LONDON, July. 7

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1891 · page 3

IN the House of Commons to-day Lord George Hamilton, the First Lord of the Admiralty, said that be deeply deplored the accident caused by the explosion of a g[?] on…

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Buggy Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1891 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon threo young gentlemen named Robert Band, Joseph Gormly, and Arthur Kennedy, who hod been spending a holiday at Mundawaddera, were…

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Man Drowned

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 July 1891 · page 4

ON Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock the body of a men was found after the subsidence of the flood in Flat Creek, hanging over one of the stays of the railway culvert over the…

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Buggy Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1891 · page 2

AN accident, which, was fortunately unattended with any serious consequenccs, happened to six young men on Sunday afternoon. They were returning from a funeral, and…

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Accident at the Show Ground

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 July 1891 · page 2

AT about half-past 2 o'olock yesterday afternoon, while a number of carpenters were at work on the new tower which is being erected at the Agricultural Hall, a large…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1891 · page 2

AN Adelaide telegram of Wednesday says:— A shocking gun accident happened at Glenorchy, near Wirrabara, on Monday. Walter Douglas, aged 21, and two lads, were…

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