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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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Serious Boiler Explosion. a Launch Sunk. One Man Drowned

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 3

The boiler of the steam launch Young Charlie, owned by Messrs. John Lysacht Ltd., exploded yesterday afternoon while the vessel was lying at the…

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Serious Accident to a Boy

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 3

While watching the procession this afternoon, a boy named George Crigan, 14 years, fell from a tree in Hyde Park, and sustained concussion of the brain,…

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Shocking Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 4

A [?] occurred on Saturday at the premises of the Fresh Food and Ice Company, Darling Harbor, the victim being a young policeman named Frank…

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James Reed Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 4

MR. James Reed, struck his leg against a cake of ice in such a manner as to bruise it severely. It became very much swollen and pained him so badly that he could not walk…

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Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2

OUR readers will be glad to learn that Mrs: Homann, senr., is progressing clowly, though favourably, towards recovery. On Thursday afternoon…

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Railway Accident in New Zealand

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 3

The Rimutaka line, between Wellington and the Wairarapa district, is one that has ( a Press Associations message states) an unenviable…

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Colliery Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2

James Benjamin, aged 20 years, employed at the Mount Kembla Colliery, Wollongong, was to-day engaged in oiling an appliance called a "tippler," which…

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Mailman Drowned

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2

Last Wednesday week John Orchard, a stockman, of Cowildi, reported that he had found the mail saddle, boots, and hat belonging to the Goodooga mailman,…

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James Reed Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 4
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MR. James Reed, struck his leg against a cake of ice in such a manner as to bruise it severely. It became very much swollen and pained him so badly that he could not…

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Fatality at Albury. [By Telegraph.] Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2

This morning, through the horse holting, an old lady named Corhett, from Cubram, Victoria, was thrown out of a buggy in which she was driving and killed…

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Accident to a Transport. Queensland Contingent Delayed. Brisbane, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2

The Imperial transport steamer Manchester Port, which left the wharf early this morning to proceed to another wharf where the Imperial Bushmen are…

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Fatality at Redfern

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 2

A shocking accident, terminating fatally, occurred this afternoon at Redfern station. It appears that a man, whose name has not yet been obtained, but who…

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A Terrible Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 3

A terrible accident occurred at the Paris Exhibition. An unfinished bridge over the street' intersecting the Exhibition collapsed and buried…

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Buggy Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 2

BUGGY accidents appear to be the order of the day; or one should judge so from their frequency of late. Another was added to the long list on…

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Great Fire at Ottawa. the Origin Accidental. Swept Along by a Hurricane. Firemen's Escape Intercepted. a Swim for Life. a Loss of £1,500,000. Fifteen Thousand People Homeless. London, April 27

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 4

Firemen have been summoned from Montreal, Toronto, and elsewhere, to assist the local brigades, and the members of the militia forces are helping to fight the flames…

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Tasmania. a Shooting Fatality. Hobart, Wednesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 2

Morris, the young man who shot himself with a Winchester rifle yesterday through the body, is now dying…

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Railway Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 3

The Brisbane mail train yesterday ran into a mass of rock on the line near Tamworth. The damage was slight…

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Accident

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 2

ON Tuesday Mr. A. Hunt, of the Railway Hotel, received a nasty fall from his well-known show horse, Buller, The animal was a bit fresh…

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Severe Burning Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 8 May 1900 · page 2

Kitty Balloran, aged 15, residing in Gurwood-street, was on Saturday the victim of a burning accident which had extremely painful consequences. She…

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