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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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Gun Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

ON Saturday last two boys were playing with a pen-gun at Mr. W. Lawson's residence, Sharp's Creek,when the one, in putting down the hammor…

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Shocking Accident in a Wine Cellar

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 4

A YOUNG man named Radcliffe, a son of Canon Radcliffe, of Ballarat, the Bishop's registrar, and a brother of the Rev.Mr.Radcliffe, of Stawell, met…

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Sulky Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 4

An accident resulting in Mr. F. Stone sustaining a broken rib happened on Friday afternoon last. It appears Unit Mr.Stone was driving in a sulky…

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A Shooting Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 3

A boy named Phillip Gill, while shooting wallabies at South Clifton last Sunday, with a companion, was shot in the abdomen, and died before arriving at the Sydney Hospital…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. a Fatal Boating Accident. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 3

A sad boating accident happened at Grafton early on Saturday morning resulting in the death ot Henry Hughes, operator and booking clark at the local telegraph office, and…

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Victims of Recent Accidents

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 3

MR. A. Schintler, who recently sustained a very painful injury through falling from a staging on to a stake, is so far recovered as to be able to be…

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Accidents

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 3

ON Tuesday last Mr. James Drummond, who fills the position of carpenter at the Jennings' mine, met with a nasty accident while putting down some of the…

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Burning Accident

Coolamon Echo · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 4

On Monday evening last a rather severe burning accident took place whereby Mr. John Ashwood, son of our local storekeeper, was injured about the arms…

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Fatal Tram Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 7

At the inquest on Francisco Chandos, killed yesterday by an electric tram is George-street, a verdict of accidental death was returned…

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Some Accidents of History

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 4

The refusal of Nap[?] youthful request for permission to enter the British navy shattered, rem[?] and again shattered Europe. Throughout his career chance…

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Fatality at Junee. a Boy Shot-dead. Inquest To-day

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 June 1900 · page 2

DURING yesterday Inspector Smith received a telegram from the Junee police authorities, stating that one of Mr. L. E. Pike's children, a boy six years old, was that…

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Shooting Accident at Junee

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 June 1900 · page 2

The police at Wagga yesterday received a telegram from the police at Junee stating that a six-years-old sen [?] Mr. L. E. Pike was acidentally shot, at…

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Terrible Gun Accident. A Boy Shot Dead

The Junee Democrat · Tuesday 12 June 1900 · page 2

A VERY sad [?] accident, resulting in the death of a little boy, and the wounding of another, occurred at Pikedale yesterday morning. The…

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Fatality

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1900 · page 2

Charles Turner, residing at Lewisham, was killed last evening whilst attempting to board a train which was in motion…

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Gun Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1900 · page 2

Two children, named Pike, were play­ing with a gun at Junee and one of them was killed and the other severely woun­ded by the explosion…

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Found Drowned

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 June 1900 · page 3

The body of an elderly man was found on the rocks near Va[?] to-day. It had evidently been in the water for several days, and has not yet been identified…

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Local and General News. Shooting Accident at Junee

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 June 1900 · page 2

Mr. G. H. Tempest J. P., Coroner for Wagga, on Tuesday held an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Clarence Rupert Pike, aged 3½ years, brief…

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Sad Fatality

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 15 June 1900 · page 2

A SAD fatality occurred at Pickedale, Junee Reefs, on Monday last. Two brothers, sons of Mr. L.E. Pike, aged five and three and a half years…

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Terrible Gun Accident. A Boy Shot Dead

Coolamon Echo · Friday 15 June 1900 · page 5

A VERY sad gun accident, resulting in the death of a little boy and the wounding of another, occurred at Pikedale yesterday morning. The…

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The Rock. Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 5

A man named Edward Aftill met with an accident on Thursday. It appears that he was inspecting a pile that was being driven, when the belt in the block broke, and the…

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