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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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An Injured Cyclist

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Henry Gordon, the cyclist who was injured by a fall at Wednesday night's cycling carnival, was a little better to-day, and shows signs of returning…

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Attempted Suicides at Wagga. Rescued From Drowning

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

Two cases of attempted suicide—one in particular of a serious character—were reported to the police on Saturday. The first attempt at self-destruction was…

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Sensational Mining Accidents. Six Men Badly Injured. Another Dashed to Death

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 4

Advices from Brisbane state that an alarming accident occurred at the Brilliant Central mine, Charters Towers, on Friday. The cage with six men was…

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Drowning Fatality at North Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 2

A magisterial inquiry was held at the court house yesterday afternoon, by the Desputy District Coroner, Mr. P. Hann, J.P., into the circumstances surrounding the death by…

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Bathing Fatality at Wagga. Boy Drowned in the Murrumbidgee

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 2

A boy named James Collins, 11 years of age, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River, opposite the police paddock, Wagga, early on Tuesday evening…

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Accident at a Brewery

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 2

A lad named Lugden, employed in Messrs. Hogan and Mahon's cordial department on the Esplanade, Wagga, met with an accident on Tuesday, which might have been…

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Injured Cyclists

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 2

Ernest Leseberg, the Moree cyclist, who was injured at the cycling sports this week, and who is suffering from concussion of the brain, has undergone…

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The Recent Drowing Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 2

James Collins, the boy who lost his life in the Murrumbidgee river on Thursday last while bathing, was buried on Thursday, in the Church of England portion of…

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A Remarkable Escape. a Level Crossing Accident. Croppled Man Struck by a Locomotive. Kerang

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 2

Mr. Samuel Simms, farmer, of Barr Creek well known as a land owner in other parts of the district, experienced a remarkably narrow escape from terrible mutilation or…

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Peculiar Accident at Hay

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 2

A remarkable accident happened on Wednesday morning at the Hay sewerage works. An excavation for the ejector station is being made in Orson-street,…

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Railway Collision

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1903 · page 3

The Baltimore-Ohio express train collided With at local passenger train at New Jersey. Ono hundred persons were killed or injured. The wreckage…

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Sad Double Drowning Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 6

On Monday afternoon three boys, Edwin Chaplin and Arnold Sydney Chaplin, sons of Mr. Walter Chaplin, of Upper Sturt (S.A.), and their cousin, Percy William…

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Terrible Railway Disasters. Trains in Collision. 112 Killed and Injured. Many Burnt to Death. London, Jan. 29

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 2

A terrible railway collision, attended in the case of many of the passengers who survived the shock of the accident by all the horrors of death by fire, is reported from the…

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Drowned in a Vat of Stout

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 4

A peculiar fatality occurred at Williams' Walkerville Brewery, Adelaide, one day last week. George Castle, the head cellarman,…

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Terrible Railway Disasters. 112 Killed and Injured. Many Burnt to Death. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 2

A terrible railway collision, attended in the cage of many of the passengers who survived the shock of the accident by all the horrors of death by fire, is reported…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Temora Star · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 2

A sad burning fatality occurred at Morangorell on Tuesday, when the infant daughter, aged 13 months, of Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone received…

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Collision in a Blizzard

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 3

A telegram from London, Ontaria, Canada, on December 27, published in the San Francisco "Call," says:—A frightful collision occurred a short…

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Accidents to Warships. Two Seamen Drowned—thirteen Missing. London, Sunday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

The torpedoboat destroyers, Teaser and Starfish collided in Portsmouth dockyard yesterday. The Teaser's now was badly damaged; the Starfish was…

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Accident to a Boy

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

Whilst bringing up cattle in one of the paddocks at Mount Austin on Saturday afternoon, a lad named William Campbell, aged 15, son of Mr. Campbell, of Albury…

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Late Cables. London, Sunday. Peculiar Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

Daring the Mediterranean mancenvres the crulser Pioneer out the torpedo destroyer Orwell in two. The forward half stale in top water, but…

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