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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

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Adelong Day by Day. ACCIDENT

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1897 · page 2

Mrs. Virschenr white out driving with her daughter met, with a very nasty accident, it appears that the horse started kicking and she ws thrown out of the buggy and received…

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Jugiong. Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 8

The youngest daughter of Mr. P. Coggaan, of Caulderwood, was kicked a few days ago by a horae, and a severe and dangerous gash was inflicted just over the unfortunate…

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Intercolonial. [By Telegraph.] Sydney. Monday. Double Drowning Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 2

The body of the man, who, with a lad, was washed off the rocke at the Gap yesterday and drowned, has been identified as that of George School, aped 42, who left his…

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Terrible Train Accident. Three Passengers Killed. Others Injured. Auckland

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 3

Mr Thompson Leys, son of the editor of Auckland Star, Chas, Akast, a youth, and W. Ness. 'bus driver, were killed last night by a train running over an omnibus…

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The Cresswell-tichborne Case. the Urana Fatality. the Butcher Claimant's Doings

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 3

More important news has been received by Mr Priestman by the English mail concerning the Tichborne case. Mr Philip Sidney (who is a brother of Major Sidney…

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Orange. Mongay. Navvies' Riot at Mullion Greek—a Publican Seriously Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 2

A brutal assault is reported to have been committed on Friday night at Mullion Creek on a publican named Henry Sloane, by about a dozen navvies, several hundred of…

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Cattle on the Line. Accident Narrowly Averted

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 4

On Saturday morning, as the Echuca to Moam[?] 8.30 a.m. train was crossing the Murray-bridge at Echuca, Messrs. Cummings and Jones were taking over 40 head of cattle…

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Melbourne. Friday. Extraordinary and Shocking Fatality— a Madman's Freak

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 2

A shocking fatality occurred at Geelong early this morning, when a middle aged man named John Dunlop was cut to pieces by a shunting train a few hundred yards from…

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Albury. Friday. Railway Fatality Between Culcairn and Ge[?]

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 2

A shocking railway accident occurred on the main line today between Culcair[?] and Gerogery. At About 3.20, Cook's excursion train from Melbourne to Sydney ran down…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 2

A FATAL accident occurred on Saturday last at Snowball, South Gundagai, by which a girl named Edith Elphick about 5 years old lost her life. The father of the child William…

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Adelong Day by Day. Late, Fatal, Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 November 1897 · page 2

THE verdict returned at the coroners inquiry on the body of the late S. Crompton was death from injuries accidently received. The funeral took place on Monday and was attended by a large…

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The Compensation for Accidents Bill

The Worker · Saturday 6 November 1897 · page 6

A mining manager, of very long experience, who himself worked as a collier boy, writes to the Times (says Liberty) urging objections to the Workmen's…

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Fatal Canoe Accident. a Boy Drowned

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 November 1897 · page 4

One of those inexplicable drowning casas in which persons well able to swim and possessed of strong nerves sink and die without apparent reason…

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Sad Fatality at Borambola. Drowned in the River

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 2

A tad death by drowning is reported from Borambola, the victim being Richard F. L. Bannatyne, son of Mr Alexander Bannatyne, licensee of the Belmore Hotel, Tarcutta-road…

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Albury. Monday. Bathing Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 2

A lad named Matthews, aged 13, was drowned in a creek yesterday near the Murray River. Four boys went into the creck to bathe and Matthews getting into…

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Drowned in the Murrumbidgee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Richard Frederick Lachlan Bannatyue, 24 years of ago, and third son of Mr. A. Bannatyne, of the Belmore Hotel, Borambola, was drowned in…

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Fatal Accident at Yerong Creek

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 3

AN accident which resulted fatally, occurred at Yerong Creek, on Suturday last, the victim being a middle aged man named John Conway, The deceased lived at Mittagong…

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Our Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. DROWNED

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 November 1897 · page 4

ROBERT Hughes and Rew Aitken and two youths named Hatch and Hartle were drowned at Invercargill yesterday by the capsize of a boat…

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Sad Fatal Accident. Harold Ward Killed

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 November 1897 · page 4

LANGUAGE would fail to convey the sorrow we felt when the shocking news reached us on Saturday that young Harold Ward, eldest son of Mr. W. E. Ward, our respected…

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The Yerong Creek Fatality Magisterial Inquiry

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1897 · page 2

A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held bofore Mr. G. H. Tempest, District Coroner, at his office, Gurwood Btreet, on Tuesday after noon touching the death of the man John…

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