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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Careless use of Firearms. Another Fatal Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1892 · page 2

A WARRNAMBOOL telegram of Tuesday says:—A sad fatal accident occurred at Framlingham, 15 miles from Warrnambool, on Saturday afternoon. Two boys, 14 and…

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Fatal Accident to Lord Ancrum. Killed While Out Shooting. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1892 · page 2

INFORMATION was received at the Government house to-night that Lord A[?]rum, one of [?]is Excellency's aides-de-camp, had been killed while out shooting at Mr…

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Extrao[?]inary Shipping Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1892 · page 6

One of the most extraordinary shipping accidents on record is thus described in the Glasgow Herald:—"The official report of the accident to the Glasgow steamer,…

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Accident with Kerosene at Footscray. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 June 1892 · page 2

A serious explosion, involving pnyslaa[?] injury to a watchman, named Wade, took place on Saturday evening, at a two-storied wood and iron building, situated in…

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Strange Fatality at Korong Vale. a Mother and Child Drowned. Korong Vale

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1892 · page 2

A MOST mysterious and lamentable fatality, involving the death of a mother and child by drowning, occurred here at about 3 o' clock this afternoon. The victims were…

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Sad Fatal Accident to a Child

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1892 · page 3

A LITTLE boy, sou of Mr. J. H. Pascoe, of Sydney Road, North Goulburn, was found dead, (the Goulburn Star says) in the yard at his parents' residence on Sunday…

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Disastrous Fire at Waterloo. a Kerosene Bond Burned. Terrible Explosion. Five Men Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 3

A FEW minutes after 12 o'clock on Wednesday night a fire, which proved disastrous in its results, broke out in Messrs. F. Lassetter and Co.'s kerosene and explosive bond in…

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Sad Railway Fatality. a Woman Cut to Pieces

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 July 1892 · page 3

ABOUT 9 o'clock on Monday morning a married woman named Zo[?] Lilly was run over by a train at the Marrickville station. Just as a down train for Hurstville was…

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Great Labor Trouble. the Pittsburg Strike. Severe Fighting with Police. Twenty-five Strikers Shot Dead. Blazing Oil Poured Against Police Boats. Many Constables Drowned. London, July 8

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1892 · page 2

Severe fighting has taken place at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, between the police and the ironworkers who recently went on strike there to the number of over 80,000…

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Extraordinary Train Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1892 · page 2

DETAILS are to hand of the extraordinary accident which happened to an express train on the Sissed-Brod-Sarajevo branch of the Hungarian State railway during a hurrican…

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Serious Revolver Accident. a Girl Dangerously Wounded

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1892 · page 2

A LAMENTABLE revolver accident occurred at Fox-street, Wagga, on Thursday morning, whereby an estimable young lady, named Mary Hoye, suffered dangerous injuries…

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Revolver Accident at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 July 1892 · page 4

A painful revolver accident occurred at Newtown, Wagga, on Thursday morning, by which Miss Mary Hoye, daughter of Mr. John Hoye, who is about 20 years of age,…

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A Buggy and Tramcar Collision

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 July 1892 · page 2

On the Eagle-hawk-road the other evening, a buggy containing Mr. J. J. Hayes, a well known auctioneer, Mr. C. Mundelein, accountant at the…

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Suicide by Drowning. a Plunge Off the Hawthorn. Bridge

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1892 · page 4

At about 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning a young man was observed suddenly to climb upon the parapet of the bridge over the Yarra at the end of Bridge-road…

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Drowning Fatalities at Kempsey. Kempsey

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 26 July 1892 · page 2

A man named William Perrin was drowned late last night off the steamer Neutral Bay at Frederickton. Perrin was a passenger, and was under the influence of liquor when at…

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The Ship Loch Vennachar. Arrives Dismantled at Mauritius— the Cook Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1892 · page 2

FOR some time past great uneasiness has been felt over the non-appearance of the ship Loch yennachar, which left Glasgow on April 6 for Melbourne, and which…

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Peculiar Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1892 · page 2

A PECULIAR and very painful accident happened (the Narandera Argus says) to Mrs. Miller, wife of a selector at. Borce Creek, on) Monday of last week. Her…

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Sad News. Drowning of Mr. W. H. Angove

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 30 July 1892 · page 6

WE hear by cablegram of the death by drowning of Mr. William Henry Angove, aged 25 years, student for the last five years at the University College, Gower-street,…

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Explosion on a Man of War Fifteen French Seamen Seriously Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 July 1892 · page 6

A FEARFUL accident, in which sixteen men barely escaped with their lives, and to the effect of which several may yet succumb, occurred on Monday evening on board the…

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Parachute Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 August 1892 · page 4

On June 12 a parachutist named Madame Carell Grossman lost her life by a descent near Berlin. The deceased was in the habit of ascending every evening in a balloon, and…

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