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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Further Fighting. No Europeans Injured. Rebels Well Supplied with Ammun[?]on

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 2

SAMOA, April 18: H M S Porpoise went out on the 15th inst., with a division of Leiutenant Gaunt's men towing two boats, and came up with a large body of rebels who…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. a Fatal Accident. an Engine Driver Killed. Sydney, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 5

John Rowlands (53), residing at 7 Bridge-street, Erskineville, was admitted to Sydney Hospital on Thursday suffering from a compound fracture of the left arm. Rowlands…

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Later Cables. Cyclone in America 100 People Killed. Over a Thousand Injured. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 May 1899 · page 2

The state of Missouri has been visited by a cyclone of extraordinary violence, which caused serious loss of life and great destruction of property…

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Broken Hill. Wednesday. Fatal Mining Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 2

A shocking mining accident occured last night in the Proprietary Mine in M'Bride's section of Block [?]. Mathew Gardner and Samuel Lawn, miners, were working on the…

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The Accident to Mr. Holland

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 2

A not[?]ation appears in our business columns which is worthy of attention. In it the Massey-Harris Machinery company intimate that during…

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Another Mining Accident. at Broken Hill. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 2

Through a fall of ore in Block 11 mine to-day two men named respectively. Gardiner and Lawn were buried. After four hours work they were got out…

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Local News. Serious Accident

Coolamon Echo · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 4

Some days ago Mr. C. Williams met with an accident that is likely to incapacitate him for some time. It appears that while at work he was…

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Sad Boating Fatality. Two Women Drowned. Both Salvation Army Officers. Murwillumbah

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 5

Last night as the mail launch Uki was coming up the river, it rain into a boat containing five Salvationists, three and two women. The two latter…

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Our Telegrams. Sydney, Friday Mining Fatality

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 6

Dawson and Carpenter, stepbrothers, were found dead in a drive of an alluvial claim at Sofala. The roof had fallen in smothering the men. Dawson has left a widow and six…

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A Coach Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 2

An accident befel the Tumbarumba coach in the vicinity of the Wagga railway station last evening, which but for the presence of mind and pluck of…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. a Manly Tragedy. a Constable Shoots His Son. an Accident. Sydney, Wednesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 3

Constable Clibborn, stationed at Manly, whilst examining a gun he had burrowed from a friend and which he deemed to be unloaded, touched the…

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The Rock (From Our Correspondent.) Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 2

An accident happened to Mr. R. Montgomery, proprietor of the mail coach from The Rock to Urana, last Thursday, when about five miles from The Rock There…

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A Sad Fatality. a Little Boy Crushed to Death. a Dray Falls on Top of Him

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fatality happened on Sunday afternoon, at about 5.30 o'clock, on the back road at South Gundagai between the Eagle hotel and Jessop's…

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Gundagai. Monday. Fatal Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 2

A shocking accident happened yesterday afternoon on the Adelong road to a boy named Lowe, about 9 years old, who, in company with three other lads, was riding…

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Accident

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1899 · page 3

On Monday last, Mr. Rowsells met with a very painful accident at the Cyanide works attached to the Gibraltar mine. He was attending to…

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Accident to the Pylades. Sydney, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 May 1899 · page 2

News has been received from Thursday Island that H.M.S. Pylades, which was on the way out to jon the Australian Squadron, is still stranded on a…

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A Burning Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 May 1899 · page 2

On Thursday morning Mrs. Edmonds, who is cook at the Club House Hotel, in Kincaid-street, had a rather awkward experience. She was busy preparing…

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Sad Death or an Old Fisherman. the Fate of Thomas Walters. Drowned in the Murrumbidgee

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1899 · page 2

ON Friday morning the mystery surrounding the fate of the old fisherman, Thomas J. Walters, was [?] by the body being found in the Murrumbidgee by Constables…

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Accidents in Diamond Mines

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1899 · page 4

ACCIDENTS occur oven at diamond mines. In July 1888 some two hundred and twenty lives were lost in a [?]re which broke out and in the p[?]ic resulting the[?]om. Water is…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. Accidentally Shot. Sydney, Monday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 May 1899 · page 3

Frank M'Williams, aged 18, son of Mr. M'Williams of Kangarooby Station, near Grenfell, has been found dead shot through the body He left the station with sheep…

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