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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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Groug Grong. (From Our Correspondent.) a Serious Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1898 · page 3

A VERY painful and it is feared, serious accident ocourred on Wednesday night to Mr. John Ingle, an old resident of this town. Mr. Ingle had the misfortune, to…

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The Accident to Platt-betts

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 August 1898 · page 2

From English files to hand yesterday further particulars are given of the accident to Platt Betts on June 29th. Platt-Betts, it will be remembered, rode in Wagga in December…

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A Nasty Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 2

Our Humula Correspondent, writing under date August 2nd, records a severe and painful accident which happened to Mrs. Cayirylys, wife of Mr. O. d'A. Cayirylys, of the Royal…

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A Mining Accident. at Broken Hill. One Man Killed. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 5

A stope burst in the Block 12 mine to-day, letting in a quantity of ore mullock. Two men, Shenning and Gilham, were overtaken by the rush…

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A Nasty Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 2

An accident of a very painful nature befell Mr. Thomas Hett at his home, Mittagong station, Yerong, on Friday morning last. Mr. Ilett was cutting wood about 10 yards…

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A Tram Accident. a Fireman Injured. Newcastle, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 August 1898 · page 2

Alexander Batters, a fireman, was run over by a tram to-day and his side badly lacerated…

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Severe Scalding Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 August 1898 · page 2

The twelve-months-old son of Mr John Norman, of Forrest Hill, met with a painful accident on Thursday evening. The family were sitting around the table…

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Singular Railway Collision. Backward Bolt of a Goods Train. Eleven Lives Lost. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 August 1898 · page 3

An extraordinary railway fatality occurred yesterday in Northero Italy, on the line which connects Genoa with Turin, which, passing over the…

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Wreck in Bass' Strait. Eleven Persons Drowned. Two Surivors. a Terrible Experience. [By Telegraph.] Launceston

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1898 · page 2

THE barquentine C. C. Funk, 540 tons, was wrecked on Flinders Island, Bass' Strait, on June 30. Later particulars show that the vessel encountered heavy weather, and…

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A Frightful Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 August 1898 · page 2

A man named Martin Bourke met with a terrible death as the result of an accident on Warraweena station near Bourke early last week. It appears Bourke, who was in search…

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A Nasty Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 August 1898 · page 2

A very nasty accident Happened to to Geo. Davis, lessee of the billiard room connected with the Commercial Hotel, as he was going home on Friday night last. Mr…

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A Cycle of Disaster. Holocaust in South Africa. Trains in Collision. the Carriages Take Fire. Twenty-five Lives Lost. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 2

A terrible railway disaster is reported from South Africa. Some runaway trucks dashed down an incline, and collided with a mail…

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Alpine Accidents. the Summer's Record. 40 Fatalities. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 2

Numerous accidents have occurred of late among persons mountaineering in the Austrian Alps. No less than 40 fatal accidents have…

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Collision with a Tram. Railway Commissioners Sued. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 3

In the District Court to-day the Railway Commissioners were mulcted in £200 damages and costs for the destruction of a cart and horse and…

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Collision in the Harbor. a Steamer Sunk. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 3

Daring the dense fog which prevailed this morning, the steamer Narrabeen collided with the Government steamer Kate, outward bound…

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Intercolonial. Sydney. Monday. Collision in Sydney Harbor.—a Manly Steamer and a Government [?] Narrow Escape

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 2

During a dense fog which enveloped the harbor this morning a collision occurred between the steamer Nurrabeen, inward bound from Manly, and the Government…

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Local and General News. Accident on the Albury Road

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 2

A sulky accident occurred on the Albury-road on Sunday afternoon, which might have respited somewhat seriously. Mr M'Donough was driving out his mother and…

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A Mail Sulky Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 August 1898 · page 2

An accident happended to the Eutongmy mail sulky, the property of Mr. Cartwright junr., yesterday morning owing to the horse attached to it bolting from the front of one…

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A Railway Accident. Engine Topples Over an Embankment. Miraculous Escape of Driver and Fireman. Sydney, Wednesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 August 1898 · page 2

A peculiar railway accident happened to-day. Whilst a stock train was running along between Hornsby Junction and Berowra, the engine…

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Fatality in Sydney. an Army Pensioner's Death. Four Men Arrested. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 2

THE Coroner initiated an inquest to-day concerning the death of an army pensioner named Joseph Fricker. Four men named Thomas Thomlinson, Joseph Allison, John…

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