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Accidents, 1892

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Sad Drowning Case

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 December 1892 · page 3

A SAD case of drowning occurred (our cor respondent writes) at Lower North Berry Jorry on Tuesday morning, by which a little boy named James Hawthorne, eight years…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1892 · page 2

A YOUTH named Stephen Kirby, son of a farmer residing in the Barnawatha district, met with a shocking shooting accident on Thursday. The youth, who is 18 years old,…

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Serious Vehicle Accident. Several Persons Hurt

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1892 · page 2

A VEHICLE accident happened (the Age says) at Auburn on Saturday evening Early in the day Mr. John Shegog, the governor of the Melbourne Gaol, his wife and two…

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The Railway Collision at Thirsk. Trial of the Signalman. a Nominal Sentence Passed. London, Dec. 5

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1892 · page 2

THE trial of the signa'mau against whom the coroner's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter in connection with the railway collision at Thirsk, in Yorkshire, on…

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Fatal Railway Accident Klama

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 8 December 1892 · page 3

A terrible accident with a fatal termination took place early this morning on the Kiama to Nowra railway works. It appears that when the ballast train reached Omega…

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A Lucky Accident. How a £50-Note Was Lost and Found

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 December 1892 · page 2

THE London Telegraph reports an extraordinary coincidence whch occurred in Fleet street. After the " sett'ing" at one of the sporting clubs a gentleman went into a…

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Boxing fatality. Death of a Pugilist at Sydney. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1892 · page 2

A Boxing contest, which resulted fatally, took place last night at the California Club, York-street. It was between Sandy Ross, of Waterloo, and Alex. Stewart, of Scotland…

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Shocking Mining Accident. Malmsburby

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 December 1892 · page 4

At the O'Connor's Freehold mine, Maimsbury, this morning between 3 and 4 o'clock, a miner named Archibald Collins was killed. Collins, with Geo. Bates, his mate, was…

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Drowning Case at Tarcutta

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1892 · page 2

SENIOR-Sergeant Powell placed at our dieposal the following telegram received by him on Tuesday from Constable Nickson at Tareutta, reporting a case…

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Boating Fatality in Sydney Harbor

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 December 1892 · page 2

Another disastrous boating was on Monday added to the already long list of catastrophes which have happened in Port Jackson. On that morning a party of about 46 persons…

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A Jockey Fatally Injured. Echuca

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1892 · page 2

A FATALITY took place at the Mathoura annual races held yesterday. During the running of the Hurdle Race a young man named Thomas Egan rode a horse called…

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Boating Fatality on the Yarra. Recovery of the Bodies

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1892 · page 2

THE bodies of Frank Palmar, Thomas Dolman, and John Leek, the three youths who were drowned in the boating accident opposite the Kew Asylum on Boxing Day, were…

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Shocking Boating Accident in Sydney Harbor

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1892 · page 2

A SHOCKING boating fatality occurred in Sydney harbor on Monday. A party of people, residents of the suburb of Leichardt, who belong to a religious sect known as the…

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