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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Shocking Accident in Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 4

A shocking accident happened to a young man named Joseph Stanley, in Little Collins-street, on Wednesday morning. Stanley is 28 years of age, and a married man, residing…

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Accident to the Rev. Mr. Maddern

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 2

A PAINFUL accident happened to the Rov. Mr. Maddern on Sunday last. The reverend gentleman, in company with his two daughters, was returning from the Alfredtown…

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Electric Lighting Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 3

AT the Melbourne Hospital on Monday Mr. Chandler, the District Coroner, held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Joseph Stanley Conway, a…

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Collision with a Whale

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 4

THE London Times reports:—A collision between the Anchor Line steamer Ethiopia and a large whale took place 800 miles cast of Sandy Hook, on the 15th November, on…

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A Man Drowned at Illillawa

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 4

A magisterial inquiry was held at Illillaw[?] on Monday on the body of a young man named Charles Porter, who had been employed for the previous four months on the…

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Fatal Accident at lake Albert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

A MIDDLE-aged man named James Charles Redman, whilst yarding a number of cattle near his residence at Lake Albert, yesterday, accidentally fell off his horse through the…

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Accident on the Tramway Line Near Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 4

An accident of a rather serious nature occurred on the Beaumaris (near Melbourne) tramway on Friday about midday between Sandringham…

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The Accident to the Prospect Aqueduct

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 4

The work in connection with the repairs to the aqueduct near the Prospect Reservoir, necessitated by the leakage which was defected on Thursday…

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Buggy Accident. Young

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 4

A SERIOUS accident occurred yesterday afternoon on Mr. J. A. Mackinnon's Memagong station. Early in the morning Mr. J. H. Murray, who manages the outside…

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An Extraordinary Fatality. Bairnsdale

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 4

Frederick Wilson, a baker, carrying on business at Bruthen, who had been out in company with two other young men named Terrill at Lake Toolong, on…

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The Fatal Accident at Lake Albert

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 3

The inquest touching the death of Mr. C. J. Redman, referred to in Tuesday's issue of this paper, was held at deceased's residence, Lake Albert, in the forenoon of that day,…

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Extraordinary Gun Accidents

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 January 1892 · page 2

"Don't point that gun at me or I will knock you down," said a well-known doctor to me the other day. " Don't get your hair off; it is not…

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Fatal Gun Accident Near Goulburn. Gouleurn

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 January 1892 · page 4

A sad accident occurred at, C[?]ck yesterday, resulting in the death of the victim, a bridge carpenter named Frederick Anderson, working on the railway. About half-past 7…

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Sad Case of Drowning'

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 2

A YOUNG woman named Gertrude Darlow met her death by drowning on Saturday last in a lagoon on Bulls Run. It appeals that the girl, who was 17 years of age,…

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A Girl Drowned at Bull's Run

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 3

A girl named Gertrads Contance Darlow, fifteen years of age. was drowned on Sunday in a small lagoon at Bull's Run, which in a direst live, is about 28 miles from wagga…

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Drowned in the Murray. Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 2

A MYSTERIOUS case of supposed suicide occurred here to-day. At about midday a man named George Simpson reported to the local police that he had discovered a heap of…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning. a Courageous Rescue. Molong

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 4

A miraculous escape from drowning took place at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, It appears that several children were securing pieces of wood that were floating down…

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Railway Accident at Darling Harbour. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 3

A railway accident occurred about 1 a.m. to-day as Darling Harbour. A cattle train, consisting of an engine and 42 tracks filled with cattle, failed to answer the brakes, and…

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Fatal Railway Accident at Yanko

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 4

A railway accident which reunited fatally occurred to a young man of 22 years of age on Tuesday at the Yanko Siding, between Narandera and Whitton. On the arrival of…

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