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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Bicycle Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 2

A young man named Thomas Myott was the victim of a rather serious bicycle accident yesterday morning. He left Uranquinty on his wheel about 4…

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The Gibraltar Accident. Bird Terribly Mutilated. Fatal Consequences

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 3

The terrible accident which happened to Charles Bird at the Gibraltar Battery on Wednesday afternoon and was briefly reported in…

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Railway Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 2

Two trains bound for Rosebery Park collided near Botany this afternoon. A number of passengers were slightly injured…

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The Peterborough-jessie Collision

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 2

In connection with the inquiry concerning the collision between the ketch Jessie and the steamer Petreborogh, off Sydney Heads, when a boy was drowned,…

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A Warship Accident

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 2

During gun practice off Tetuan a six-inch shell exploded inside a gun on the battleship Magnificent. Eleven men wore seriously injured and seven…

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Shocking Fatality. a Man Buried Alive. While Sinking a Well

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

A chocking and terrible accident, unfortunately attended with fatal results, occurred in Wagga on Saturday morning. A man named John Hanes was…

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A Tram Fatality. Wagga Girl's Sad Death. (By Telegraph.) SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

The Coroner held an inquest to-day on the body of a young woman named May Bceche, who died from injuries sustained through falling off a tram…

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Magisterial Inquiry Verdict, Accidental Death

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

OnSaturday night, at eight o'clock at the Wagga Court house, Air. T. H. Wilkiinon, P.M.. the Coroner of Inquests opened an enquiry into the sad…

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Awful Accident in Wagga. Man Entombed in a Well. Overtaken by Drift. Efforts Atrescue Unavailing

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

It is a long time since such au appalling piece of news bad to bo related in Wagga ai the tidings of au awful accident which occurred in the town on…

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Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 2

A collision occurred on Sunday between a passenger and a coal train at Westminister, United States, and 23 persons, mostly railway hands, were…

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Found Drowned

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 2

The body of E. M. Bell, accountant at Brisbane, who has been missing for the past fortnight, has been discovered in the Brisbane river…

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Another Tram Fatality. Wagga Girl's Sad Death

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 2

The City Coroner held an inquest on Monday on the body of a young woman named May Beeche who died from injuries sustained through falling off a…

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Drowning Accident at Humula

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

Information was received by the Wagga police on Thursday to the effect that a young man named David Cheney had been drowned that day…

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Drowned in the Flood

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

The heavy rains and consequent floods have been responsible for on fatality. On Thursday Mr. David Chency, aged 23 years, who had been rabbiting…

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New South Wales. (By Telegraph.) a Pea Rifle Fatality. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

Kate Sherwin, aged 15, was accidentally shot with a pea rifle at Cargo, to-day, and died within a few minutes. MOTOR CAR INJURIES…

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Vehicle Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

While Mr. J. A. Gunn was driving home to Borambola, after attending the meeting of the Pastures Protection Board, the vehicle in which he was…

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Railway Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

The Chicago and New York express while travelling at a speed of seventy miles an hour struck an open switch at Menton and was derailed, 13…

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Accident to Mr. Gunn

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

Last evening, as Mr. J. A. Gunn had started on his return journey home to Borambola he stooped down to fix one of the buggy lamps, when the horses…

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Expensive Motor Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

A motor car driver who knocked a lady down in Oxford-street was to-day ordered by the Court to pay her £200 for injuries she sustained…

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Drowning at Humula

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 June 1905 · page 2

Details are now to hand regarding the sad drowning of Mr. David Cheney, aged 20 years, and son of Mr. Joseph Cheney. During one of the heaviest floods of…

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