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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Serious Pea Rifle Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1903 · page 2

A serious accident, and what might easily have been a fatal one, happened on Saturday (our Henty correspondent writes), to Mr. Horace Taylor, son of Mr. P. C…

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Fatal Yachting Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1903 · page 3

By a yachting accident St. Kilda (Victoria) on Saturday, a young man named G. Morrion was drowned, and several others narrowly escaped…

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Disasters in America. Fearful Railway Accidents. Explosion on a War Ship

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 February 1903 · page 4

The steamer Ventura, which arrived at Sydney on Monday from San Francisco, brought news of several appalling railway disasters, involving the loss of numerous…

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Harbour Collision

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

The Marine Board to-day found that the collision between the steamers Wakatipu and Eurimbla in the harbour was caused by the wrongful act of the…

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Our Telegrams. Sydney, Thursday, the Harbour Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

The Marine Board found in the case of the collision between the steamer Wakatipu and the Eurimbla was caused by the wrongful act of the…

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Items of News. Serious Burning Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

A girl named Minnie M'Kenzie, who resides with her aunt, Mrs. Martin, in Fitzhardinge street, Wagga, was engaged yesterday morning in burning rubbish from a…

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Accidentally Shot Dead. Parkes

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

Edward Birmingham, aged about 40, charcoal-burner and dealer, was accidentally shot dead about 8 p m. yesterday. Deceased called at Pritchard's blacksmith's…

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Disasters in America. Fearful Railway Accidents. Explosion on a War-ship

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 5

The steamer Ventura, which has arrived from Sn Francisco, brings news of several appalling railway disasters, involving the loss of numerous lives and…

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Fatal Rifle Accident. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

Last night a resident of Parkes, named Edward Bermingham, was accidentally shot dead. He was returning from the bush in a dray, and probably caught hold…

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Drowned at Colombo

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 March 1903 · page 3

Mrs. Gerald Spring, of Moorong, near Young, has received news that her only daughter, Edith, has been drowned at Colombo. The only particulars contained…

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The Eurimbah- Wakitipu Collision

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 March 1903 · page 3

The Marine Board to-day suspended the certificate for one year of Captain Middleton, of the steamer Eurimbah, and ordered him to pay to the master of…

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Shocking Riding Accident

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 4 March 1903 · page 2

A shocking [?] accident at [?] D[?] (Vic) on Friday evening, and was the cause of a young girl camed Winnie Jonas, 13 years of…

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Tree Falls on a Tent One Man Killed Eight Injured

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 4

The Commissioner of Police at Brisbane has received details of a serious accident near Booroondarra Station, 50 miles from Capella (Q), on 16th…

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A Bad Accident

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 3

On Saturday last an extraordinary mishap simply b[?]fel a young man, William Jeff, employed by Mr George Mills as a teamster, It seems he was…

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A Shocking Accident. Explosion of Carbide Gas. Pakenham (Vic.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

One of the buildings on the property of the orchardist, Mr. T. H. Grant, of Toomuc Valley, near here, was, late on Friday evening, the scene of an explosion…

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Young Lady Drowned. Falls From German Liner. Perth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

The night before the steamer Rhein reached Frema[?]tle, Miss Spring, a young lady of 19 years of age, the daughter of the late Mr. Gerald Spring, of Moorong, New…

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Accident at a Brewery

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

A painful accident occurred at Messrs. H[?]gan and Mahon's brewery, Wagga, yesterday morning, whereby Mr. John Greenfield, aged 32, met with severe…

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Accident to a Youth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

Albert Cross, a youth of 15, residing in Simmons-street, while fishing yesterday, about noon managed in some way to run a fishhook right through one of his fingers…

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Accident at Hogan & Mahon's

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

A dangerous and painful accident transpired at Messrs. Hogan and Mahon's brewery yesterday morning, whereby a man named John Greenfield had his face…

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Sad Shooting Fatality. Frank Kuhn the Victim. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 2

A shooting accident, resulting in the death of Frank Kuhn, the well-known jockey, took place at Kensington thin evening. Kuhn was recently presented…

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