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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

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Serious Accident

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 2

The train comprising a number of water tanks en route from Wages to Junee on Tuesday night, at about 11' o'clock, struck portion of the gates at Tarcutta-road traffic…

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Terrible Burning Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 November 1896 · page 4

One of the most gruesome fates that it is possible to fill to the lot of man happened in a small hut situated along the Chiltern road, about a quarter of a mile from…

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Fatal Horse Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 November 1896 · page 4

On Sunday afternoon, near Murrulebale, a man named Martin Mulligan met with a very severe accident through being thrown from his horse. He was unconscious when picked…

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A. Team Collision. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 2

WHILE an omnibus laden with passengers bound for business was proceeding along Elizabeth-street at 9 o'clock this morning one of the horses swerved on the tram line,…

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A Sensational Boat Accident. Geelong

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 November 1896 · page 4

A fisherman named Peter Le Brocq was today coining across the Bay in his boat, when a sudden squall upset it. A lad fishing near the North Shore Freezing Works jetty…

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Train Accident at Junee. a Ganger Killed

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 3 December 1896 · page 3

On Saturday morning (reports the Southern Cross) about 10.30 one of those horrible railway accidents which from time to time occur in that midst of the most careful conditions…

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Terrible Fatality at Stockton. Suffocated in a Coalpit. Newcastle

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 2

Shortly before 11 o'clock last night the residents of Stockton were shocked with the news that seven men had been suffocated in the Stockton pit The inhabitants of the…

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Strange Miscarriage of Justice. Innocent Woman Condemned. Truth Accidentally Revealed

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 3

THE Paris correspondent of the Daily News of October 23 states that a trial now taking place before the Amiens Assizes is stirring public conscience, and has inflicted another…

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Mysterious Wound. the Burkley Railway Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 December 1896 · page 4

Mr. Chandler, coroner for Bourke, held an inquest at the Melbourne Morgue on the body of Alfred Francis Dorey, 16, which was found in a mutilated condition on the Glen…

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Sunk in Dock. R.m.s. Orotava Submerged. Five Persons Drowned. London, Dec. 15

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 December 1896 · page 2

An extraordinary disaster occurred yesterday at the Tilbury docks on the Thames, to the Orient Company's mail steamer Orotava, which recently arrived at London from…

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Accident to Judge Hodges. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1896 · page 2

WHEN coming into town this morning lo attend his judicial duties, Mr. Justice Hodges was run into by another cyclist. Both men were thrown down, Justice…

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Melboubhe. Wednesday. Serious Tram Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1896 · page 2

Miss Gertrude Snodgrass, a sister of Lady Clarke, met with a serious accident while riding in a tram. A spring cart swerved right into he train, and one of the shafts…

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A Cycling Collision in Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 5

A cycling accident, by which Mr. Justice Hodges sustained serious injury, occurred at St. Kilda on Wednesday last. His Honor was riding along Wellington-street, in the…

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Collision with a Tramcar in Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 3

Owing to a collision between a Richmond tramcar and a passing cart, which happened on Wednesday morning on the Wellington-parade, Miss Gertrude Snodgrass, a sister of…

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Collision in the Harbour. a Collier Disabled. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 2

The Manly ferry steamer "Manly" wail on ber way to Circular Quay this afternoon when it collided with the collier Merksworth fully laden from catherine Hill bay. Both…

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Two Boys Drowned

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 December 1896 · page 2

A sad drowning accident took place at Keilor, Dear Melbourne, on Saturday afternoon, when the two sons of Mr. D. Yates, of the Keilor Hotel, perished in the Deep…

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The Manly-merksworth Collision

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 24 December 1896 · page 3

The Port Jackson Co's steamer Manly, seems pursued by bad luck. She is a new boat and has only been running a few weeks. On one of her first trips something went…

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Sad Bathing Fatality. Two Boys Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 2

THE happy associations of Christmastide were saddened to two Wagga families by a sorrowful bathing fatality which occurred on Boxing Day. A number of school boys…

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Sad Drowning Fatality. Two Boys Lose Their Lives. the Bodies Recovered

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 2

The news that rapidly spread throughout the town of Wagga at about 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, that two boys had bean drowned in the river, caused a great sensation and…

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Shocking Burning Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 2

A terrible burning fatality has oocurred at the Grampians, about 25 miles from Stawell, Viotoria. An elderly woman named O'Rourke, living in the vicinity of Rose's…

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