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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

408 stories in Riverina's papers · page 9 of 21

Tram Fatality

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

Archibald Wiseman, aged 98, was killed on the tram line at Belmore Park on Saturday night. The body was featfully mangled…

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Boating Fatality

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

A fishing boat capsized off Wollongoug on Saturday. A boy named McDonald was drowsed and three man narrowly [?]caped…

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A Boating Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

A sad boating rata[?] occuired off Woolongong yesterday afternoon Constable J.W. M'Andrew, with his little boy [?] aged eight and Messrs…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. Faftal Mining Accident. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

A la[?] accident [?] at the Great [?]…

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Ocean Depths and Drowned Mountains

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 4

During tho com so of its surveys for (ho trans-Pacific cable which is to con­nect. Ameiica with her remote colonies the steamer Nero has established two…

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The Rainfall General. a Lad Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1900 · page 2

Heavy rains are reported from nearly all parts of the colony, many places registernig from two to five inches. At Camden the water has reached the…

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Painfal Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 2

MR. A. G.'SCHINTLER met with a serious accident yesterday. while engaged in cutting down a tree he fell from a staging on to the [?]top of a sapling stump and was…

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An Accident Cures an Accident

Coolamon Echo · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 3

A Coolamon lady the other day, while proceeding about her household duties met with an accident by which the joint between the left hand and the middle…

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Extraordinrry Accident

The Temora Star · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 2

magisterial : inquiry was held at Luddenham on Friday concerning the death of a lad named James Henderson, who was shot whilst…

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Quite by Accident

The Temora Star · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 1

The astronomer, like other people, sometimes finds what he is not looking for. This is especially likely to happen in making photographs of the heavens, A…

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Shocking Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

Angelo Lazzarini, an Italian, living near Woy Woy Tunned, was found this afternoon by W. Davis about a quarter of a mile from his own house with his…

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A Sad Fatality. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

William George Thomas was died in a horrible manner before the eyes of his brother in the British mine last night. The two brothers and some other men…

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Victoria. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Monday. Shocking Railway Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

A terrible accident happened at Glenferrie railway station on Sunday night. Thomas Fricker, 35, a booking clerk, was crushed to death between the platform and a…

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Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

A lad named Peel met with a nasty accident at Bago last week. He was at work in a mine when a piece of stone fell from the top of the drive…

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Fireworks Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

THE Mafeking and Queen's Birthday celebrations were responsible for one accident. Mr. Kendall, dairyman, of Grahamstown, on Thursday night was…

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Peculiar Shooting Accident Shot Through a Tree. [By Telegraph.] Bodangora

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

Two men named Patrick Sullivan ami Hugh Hughes were out practising shooting at Spicer's Creek, with, a Lee Metfurd rifle, Hughes fired at a tree, which was thirty…

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A Frightful Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 31 May 1900 · page 4

MANY a time a man is invited out to dinner, and seeing some delicaci[?] on the table, he partakes of them But as soon as he leaves his friend's house, with his stomach full, he…

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Shocking Accident in a Wine Cellar

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 May 1900 · page 3

A young man named Redcliffe, a son of Cannon Redcliffe, of Ballarat, the Bishop's registrar, and a brother of the Rev. Mr. Radcliffe, of St[?] met with a shocking…

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Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

MR. PETER COLE, Sharp's Creek,' sustained hurtful injuries to his side while journeying to his home on Saturday last. He is very stiff and sore, but it…

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A Serious Accident

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 8

ON Wednesday last what was nearly a fatal accident occurred. A boy Willie Patterson, 6 years of age, was with other boys chopping…

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