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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Fatal Steeplechasing Accident. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 7

During the progress of the race meeting of the Victorian Trotting Club at Sandown-park yesterday an accident occurred which had a fatal…

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Drowning Fatalities. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 2

A SAD accident happened at Bodalla yesterday. Seyeral ladies of the Mort family and some friends were bathing in Tuross River, near Comerang. Mrs. Edward Mort, of…

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Terrible Mining Accident. Buried Alive

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 2

AT the North Old Chum mine on Friday John Grant and James Quick fired a shot in the stopes over the 1000ft. level. On returning, they tried they ground overhead…

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Two Gun Accidents. Fatal Consequences

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 2

AN Orange telegram says that on Thursday two young men named William Dower, 21, and Henry Warren, 17, son of Mr. Richard Warren, J.P., a well-known resident, went,…

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A Fatal Gun Accident. Geelong

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 3

A shocking gun accident occurred at Warn Ponds to-day, the victim being a youth named Albert Henry Milton, 17 years of age. The deceased and his brother were…

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Fatal Mining Accident at Bendigo. a Miner Crushed to Death by a Fall of Stone. Bendico

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 2

A shocking fatality occurred at the North Old Chum mine to-day, the victim being a middle-aged miner, named John Grant. who leaves a widow and family of six. Grant and…

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Two Gun Accidents. Orange

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 2

Yesterday two young men named William 21, and Henry Warren, 17, son of Mr. Richard Warren, J. P., a well-known resident, went out shooting near Mullion Creek…

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Accidents in the Hunting Field

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 8

The agitation against the use of barhed wire now being promoted among huntsmen in Dorset, will receive a great impetus on account of a…

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Four Members of One Family Drowned. Toowoomba

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 2

At 3 p.m. on Saturday Ipswich reported:— A sad drowning fatality, resulting in the loss of the lives of four children of Peter Jackson, a well-known engine-driver on the…

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Floods in Queensland an Unparalleled Catastrophe. Townships Submerged. Four Children Drowned. Errible Colliery Disaster. Seven Miners Drowned. Toowoomba

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 3

WE have been cut off from Brisbane since Friday afternoon, and no news from there of any kind has been received. The following telegrams received from Ipswich…

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An Extraordinary Mining Accident. DAMAGE £800

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1893 · page 4

At an early hour on Monday morning, in the city and town of Ballarat and through-out the Sebastopol district, it was reported that a terrible accident had occurred at the…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Four Persons Killed and Many Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 4

A DESPATCH sent from Chicago on 29th December said;—A terrible accident, in which four persons were killed and 24 more or less seriously injured, occurred on the railway…

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Sad Drowning Fatality. Carrathom

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 4

A sad drowning fatality occurred about 7 p.m. yesterday in the Murrumbidgee about three miles from Carrathool. Three daughters of Mr. A. Morrison, named Jessie, Christina…

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A Shocking Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 4

A HORRIBLE discovery was made in the Barongarook Forest, on Tuesday about nine miles south of Colac. A selector named David Ballagh who was searching for stray…

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The Drowning Fatality at Carathool

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 4

An inquiry was held by Mr, J. E. Pearce at Carathool (says the Hay Grazier) into the cause of the death of Jessie, Christina, and Murdochina Morrison…

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Sad Fatality. Death of Mr. Rodie Firth

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 9

A TERRIBLE, sad accident happened at the Parkes show on Wednesday when Mr. Thomas Roder Firth, who was riding in the hunters' contest, came to a sad end. He…

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Shocking Accident at Broken Hill. a Lady Burnt to Death in the Street. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 2

The clothing of Mrs frank Stubbs, wife of a well-known share-broker, caught fire this afternoon under most extraordinary circumstances. She was standing in front of Messrs…

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Shocking Fatality at Bendigo

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 2

A shocking accident happened in Hargreaves-street Bendigo, on Wednesday, resulting in the death of Mr. John M'Alpine, of the firm of M'Culloch and M'Alpine, the…

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Terrible Accident to a Sleighing Party

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred on the night of January 10th to a sleighing party at Lonsdale, Rhode Island, resulting in a loss of eight lives. The…

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Shocking Accident in Flinders-street, Melbourne. a Contractor Killed in a Collision. Cabdriver. Alleged Negligence of a

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1893 · page 2

MR. Abraham Kellett, contractor, of 54 George-street, East Melbourne, died in the Melbourne Hospital on Friday evening from injuries received by himn in an…

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