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Accidents, 1906

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Railway Collision

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

A collision occurred yesterday between two ballast trains on the south-coast line, near Kembla Junction. An engine, some trucks and the…

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Railway Collision SYDNEY

The Temora Star · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

A railway collission between two ballast trains occurred on the south Coast line yesterday. No lives were lost…

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A Nasty Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 6

Mr. J. Weller met with a very painful accident bore on Wednesday last. He was riding a restive horse, which look a [?]f, and pulled the rider over his head…

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Canoe Fatality

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

A canoe containing a number of young people capsized at Adelaide on Saturday. The accident was witnessed by a man named Charles Arnold…

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Australian-American Mails. Railway Collision in Wyoming. Fifty Bags Destroyed

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 4

Australian merchants may suffer severely owing to a railway collision which occurred in Wyoming (U.S.A.) lost month. The central postal…

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Shocking Accident at a Railway Station. Young Man's Foot Cut Off by a Train

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 4

Percy Taylor, a young man, aged 19, living at Burton Crescent, Ascot Vale, Melbourne, met with the terrible accident on the railway line at that…

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Shocking Mine Fatality Three Men Buried

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 4

A shocking accident in the Vale of Coolgardie mine, Bonnivale, on Tuesday, resulted in the death of three miners, members of a tribute party…

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Sad Burning Fatality at Coolamon. a Child Burnt. Coolamon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

The Coolamon public learned with feelings of consternation and regret that a little girl named Ethel Cross had been so severely burnt on Sunday morning that…

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Latest News. Received Up to 2 a.m. Marquis Linlithgow. Injured Whilst Hunting. London, Sunday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

The Marquis of Linlithgow, who, as Lord Hopetoun, was first Governor-General of the Commonwealth, was thrown from his horse whilst hunting at…

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Collision at Sea

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 3

A disastrous collision, involving, it is feared, great loss of the, is reported from w[?] (S.A.). The [?] Zi[?] has reached that port, damaged…

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The Coolamon Burning Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

The funeral took place at Coolamon on Tuesday of Miss Ethel Cross (step-sister of Mrs. T. Confroy), whose sad death from burning was reported in our last…

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Two Men Drowned. Trying to Help a Companion

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

A sad double tragedy the Swan River (Perth), on Sunday night. Three men were fishing off the rocks, when the hat of one of the…

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Accident with a Knife

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

On Tuesday, Mr. Stanley Daley, son of Mrs. Daley, of Kincaid-street, was cutting a piece of timber preparatory to going out on a fishing expedition. He…

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Recent Burning Accident at Coolamon

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

The funeral of the little girl Ethel Crosse, who died at Coolamon on Sunday last from burns received that morning, took place on Tuesday last…

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Drowning Fatality. a Boy the Victim

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 2

A sad drowning fatality occurred at Wagga yesterday, whvu a lad named Harved Durkin, 12 years of age, lost bis life. It appears that the boy,…

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A Sad Fatality. Wagga Lad Drowned

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 7

A gloom was cast over the town yesterday at noon when it became known that a Wagga boy named Allan Dorian, aged 12 years, had been drowned in the…

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The Drowning Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 2

The funeral of the boy Michael Harold Durkin, who was accidentally drowned in the river at Wagga on Friday, took place on Saturday morning…

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The Drowning Fatality Verdict of "Accidental Drowsing."

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 2

On Saturday morning, the District Coroner, Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M., conducted a magisterial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death…

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Recent Drowning Fatality. the Inquest

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 3

An inquest touching the death of the late Michael Harold Durkin, who was drowned on Friday last, was held before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M., at the…

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Drowning Fatality. Two Children Lose Their Lives

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 4

Kingsbury, who resides at Edgeware road, Newtown, Sydney, and Dorothy Gale, who lives at Cavendish-street, Newtown, und whose ages are…

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