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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Dr. Dill Macky at Temora. Several Persons Injured. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 3

Dr. Dill Macky continued his campaign at Temora on Friday night, and experienced another bombardment, in which several persons were injured. No hall being…

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Serious Accident to a Boy

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 2

A serious accident occurred on Saturday to a boy named William Bowman, only surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bowman, of Murray street, Wagga. The lad was on…

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Accident to the German Empress. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 2

While the German Emperor and Empress were riding at Grunewald, near Charlottenburg, yesterday, the horse Her Majesty was riding stumbled and fell, and…

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Terrible Fatality. Three Ladies Drowned

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 2

A terrible drowning fatality occurred in the Murrumbidgee River, between Lockhart and Narandera on Saturday afternoon. Three young ladies-- two of…

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Bathing Accident

The Temora Star · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 2

A sad drowning accident occurred in the Murrumbidgee River between Lockhart and Narrandera on Saturday night. Three young women were the…

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The Murrumbidgee Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

The three bodies of the victims of the drowning fatality between Lockhart and Narandera on Saturday have been recovered from the Murrumbidgee River…

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A Plucky Act. Three Girls Rescued From Drowning

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

The Penshurst (Vic.) correspondent of the "Argus" reports that a remarkably plucky rescue of three persons from death by drowning was recently effected by…

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Painful Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

Mr. Thomas Price, a resident of North Wagga, and employed at Mr. Maher's wood yard, Newtown, met with u painful accident on Tuesday morning. It appears that he…

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Terrible Bathing Fatality. Three Young Ladies Drowned

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 April 1903 · page 2

The local police were roused last Saturday night by a messenger from Wagingoberembe with the news that a dreadful bathing accident had occurred…

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Sad Bathing Accident. Three Young Ladies Drowned. Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 April 1903 · page 3

A SAD drowning accident occurred in thE Murrumbridge, between Lockhart and Narandera, on Saturday night, when three young ladies, Misses Clapperton…

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A Motor Fatality. Russian Motorists Killed

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 April 1903 · page 2

Count Zborowski and a mechanician of the Czar were killed in a motor race at Nice. The motor was travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, and ran full…

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Struck by Lightning. Father Killed Son Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1903 · page 3

Daring the heavy storm on Tuesday at about four miles from Germanton, a man Domed Kelton was struck dead by lights ning. Kelton, in company with his eon,…

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New South Wales. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday. Fatal Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1903 · page 2

This afternoon Mr. Edward S. Russom, employed in the Lands Department, was walking along one of the marble-tiled corridors, when he slipped, and struck the…

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Boating Fatality. a Terrible Experience

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 3

Four men, named respectively Rendall, Hermingway, Anderson and Wald, were fishing outside Newcastle on Sunday morning, when a gale capsized their…

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A Remarkable Fatality. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 9 April 1903 · page 2

Mr. Chas. Frith, aged 94 years, who has been residing at the Australian Club, to-night fell from one of the windows on the top floor to the pavement, a distance…

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Fatal Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 April 1903 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

An accident occurrcd to a man named Henry Robert Edwards, at Borambola on Monday last, which terminated fatally in the Wagga Hospital on Tuesday. It…

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Shooting Fatality

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 10 April 1903 · page 2

NEWS , was brought into town yesterday morning that a young man named Patrick Manning, employed at bridge work on the railway line, had been…

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Accidents at Borambola

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1903 · page 2

James Cochrane, aged 60, employed on the Borambola station, was proceeding home on horseback on Thursday afternoon, when the horse ran him into a barbed wire fence…

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Serious Accident to a Child

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 April 1903 · page 2

A serious accident happened in Maru-street on Thursday, resulting [?] Roy Williams, a boy of five years of age, who resides with his parents in the…

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