A Pathetic Tragedy, Woman and Two Children Drowned. Children Rescued, But Not Revived
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 5
A pitiful tragedy was enacted at Footscray (Melb.) on Wednesday afternoon. A young woman and her two children-a boy of about 6 years of…
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Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 2
On Saturday Miss Keady, a resident of Rennock, was clearing a kitchen "fountain" with benzine. By some means it caught tire, and enveloped the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision. Fifteen Persons Killed. Carriages on Fire. London, June 27
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 2
A collision occurred on the railway from Bombay to Baroda between an express passenger train and a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →India. Passenger and Goods Train Collide. Carriages Take Fire. Fifteen Persons Killed and 270 Injured. London
Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 2
A railway disaster has occurred on the Bombay-Baroda railway line. An express train, carrying a large number of passengers came into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident. Explosion of Brilliant Shine
Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 2
A very serious accident happened to Miss Caoy, a late arrival from Goulburn, living with her mother, some sixteen miles from Coolamon. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Playing With Fire. Boy Seriously Injured. Recovery Hopeless. Sydney
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 2
A lad named Cox. living at Dangar, a village near Narrabri,was playing with fire this morning, when he received such severe injuries that no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Railway Accident, an Alderman Killed. Body Frightfully Mangled. Sydney
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 2
Alderman Patrick Dundon, of Rook wood Borough Council, met his death in a shocking manner this morning. He rushed on to the platform just as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Painful Accident
Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 2
Mr. P. A. O'Shannessy, a farmer, residing at Coursing Park, Downside, met with a painful accident on Monday. He was using a drill, and was standing on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Train Accident an Alderman Killed. Body Fearfully Mutilated. Sydney
Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 3
Alderman Patrick Joseph Drindon, of Rookwood, was run over and killed by a train at the Rookwood railway station this morning. He intended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Accident. Boy's Terrible Death. Sydney
Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 3
An accident of a most shocking character happened yesterday afternoon at Balldale to the eldest son of Mr. Mungo Wilson, a well-known farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Chapter of Accidents
The Worker · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 13
A dense mountain mist was the primary cause of a peculiar series of accidents to a funeral party returning to Orange from Cargo, N.S.W. The party consisted of a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Shocking Railway Fatality. Woman Run Down by Express. Body Fearfully Mangled. Sydney
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 2
The managed remains of a woman were found this morning near Newtown Railway Station. The body and features were beyond recognition; the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Fatality
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 July 1908 · page 2
Charles Kirkwood, a farmer at Dongin, has been accidentally shot dead by his son while hunting kangaroos…
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Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 July 1908 · page 2
Victor Holmes, a seaman on the ketch Wave, fell into the harbour, off the central wharf, Miller's Point, last night and was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Submarine Accident. Escape of Gasoline. Six Men Unconscious. Condition of One Critical. London, July 15
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 July 1908 · page 2
Seven submarines were proceeding to portland and Dover,when off Folkestone, the parent ship, Aeolus, which was accompanying the squadron…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Devils in Collision. Aeroplane and Taxicab. Extraordinary Scene
Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 July 1908 · page 3
There was an exciting scene here (writes a correspondent of “Lloyd’s Weakly” on 2nd May) to-day when M. Delagrange, in making a fine flight in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Accidentally Shot. TEMORA
Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 18 July 1908 · page 3
Miss Ida Ann Coleman, daughter of Mr. Jonn Coleman, the well known grazier, of Bogenderra, Morangorell, 20 miles from Temora, met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Shooting Accident. a Young Girl Killed. Temora
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1908 · page 8
Miss Ida Ann Coleman, daughter of Mr. John Coleman, the well-known grazier, of Bogenderra, Morangarell, 20 miles from Temora, met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shocking Fatality Woman Cut in Halves. Sydney
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1908 · page 2
The body of the woman who was cut in halves at Middle Park railway station last night has been identified as that of Mary Moore, the wife of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Acetylene Gas Explosion Man's Sight Injured. Broken Hill
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1908 · page 2
A young man named G. Ryan received shocking injuries to his face last night through an explosion of acetylene gas. Ryan was sent by the…
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