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Accidents, 1893

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Railway Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1893 · page 2

About 12.15 yesterday morning a mixed train from Harden to Blayney ran off the line a few miles south of Cowra. The train consisted of an engine, two goods trucks,…

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Railway Accident. a Train Runs Over an Embankment. the Driver Killed. Carcoar

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 5

AT a quarter-past 12 this morning a fatal railway accident occurred [?] 8 up mixed train, which left Harden at 9.15. The engine was in charge of Driver Willoughby and…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 2

A telegram to the Herald from Catcoar on Sunday says :-- At a quarter-past 12 this morning a fatal railway accident occurred to No. 8 up mixed…

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A Shocking Accident. Fatality Whilst Acting a Charade. London, Jan. 31

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

A fearful tragedy is reported from San Francisco. On Now Year's night, at a private entertainment one of the features of the occasion was a charade, in which a…

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Serious Gun Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon last a young man named John Robert Smith, 31 years of ago, who resides at Yarrenjerry, met with a very painful accident through the explosion of a…

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Accidentally Poisoned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

A CASE of poisoning under painful and peculiar circumstances occurred at the residence of Mr. Charles Cockerham, M'Killop-street Geelong, on New Year's day, when…

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The Railway Accident in New South Wales. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 4

The further particulars to hand in reference to the railway accident near Wattamandara yesterday, show that there were 16 passengers in the train. All escaped serious…

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Fifteen Persons Frozen to Death. Forty-one Skaters Drowned. London, Jan. 6

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 2

THE unusually severe weather which has been prevailing in England as well as on the Continent lately still continues, and is causing severe suffering to the poor r classes…

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Fatal Boating Accident. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 2

A fatal boating accident happened yesterday on the Saltwater River, near Yarraville, the victims being two men named Thomas Petersen and Charles Rasmussen. They…

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Railway Accidents

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 6

THE opening of the new year 1893 was maeked by a very serious accident on the loop line from Demondrille to Blayney—an accident which not only did…

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Two Mothers Drowned. Rushworth

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 4

Yesterday two boys, Edward James, aged 8 years, and Henry Stephen, 10 years, sons of John Clayton, of Gobarup, working at Pook's (sawmills at…

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Sad Fatality Near Warialda. Warialda

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 2

A sail fatality occurred at Ezzy's Crossing, Gwydir River, Moree road, 14 miles from here, on Saturday. A man, his wife, and three children were crossing the river in a…

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A Father and Two Children Drowned. Warialda

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 2

A SAD fatality occurred at Ezzy's Crossing Gwydir River, Moree-road, 14 miles from here, on Saturday. A man, his wife, and three children, were crossing the river in a…

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Fatal Accident to a Jockey

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 2

A KYNETON telegram of Monday says:—Tho evidence of the adjourned inquiry into the death of Daniel Lyons, a jockey, who sustained a fall from his horse at Hanging…

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Railway Accident at Queanbeyan

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 4

A HORRIBLE railway accident happened at Queanbeyanon Saturday night, whenafettler named Alfred Yeomans was overtaken on his tricycle by the mail train and was cut…

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Fatal Accident to a Jockey. Kyneton

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

The evidence at the adjourned inquiry into the death of Daniel Lyons, a jockey, who sustained a fall from his horse at Hanging rock Races on the 2nd inst.. and who, in…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 4

A VERY painful accident occurred at Yea (Vic.) on Thursday. A boy named John Peter Moore, who was taken out of the St. Vincent Do Paul Orphanage, South…

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Sad Fatality in Hobson's Bay. Three Yachtsmen Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 2

A SAD boating accident took place in Hobson Bay on Saturday afternoon, resulting in the drowning of three men. Two of the victims were brothers, Edward and George Bond,…

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Drowning Case at Sandy Greek

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 2

INFORMATION was received by the police yesterday morning that an Italian, named Most Achello Bortoli, was supposed to have been drowned in a dam at Sandy Creek on…

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Fatal Accident on a Railway. One Man Killed and Two Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1893 · page 4

ON Monday an accident happened at Port Adelaide which resulte in the instantaneous death of one man and serious injuries to two others. Early in the afternoon three young…

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