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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Injured Man Dies. Later

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 2

Martin died at 9.30 this evening. The medical examination disclosed two fractures of the skull and the brain protruding. The accident has…

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Shocking Accident. at Junee Railway Station. Foreman Seriously Injured. Junee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 2

A serious accident occurred this evening at the railway station. When Mr. Joe Martin an old resident of the town, employed as foreman in the…

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Fatal Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1908 · page 2

Joseph Martin, foreman of the railway carriage department, Junee, was knocked down by the Albury mail train on Monday evening, and he died…

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Train Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1908 · page 2

While leaning his arm out of a train window last night Senior constable Twiss sustained a bad fracture through being struck by a passing…

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Motor Fatality. Driver Committed for Manslaughter

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 May 1908 · page 2

At the inquest on the body of Henry Weller, the Coroner found that deceased met his death through being knocked down by a motor car…

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Awful Fatality on the Jugiong Road. George Heggarty Crushed to Pulp. What the Inquiry Revealed

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 2

On Tuesday night a fearful fatality occurred at Black Springs, on the Jugiong road. A man named George Heggarty, who not long ago wan under…

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Shocking Accident

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 4

A serious accident occurred ore Monday evening at the Junee railway station. When Mr. Joe Martin, an old resident of the…

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No Accident

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 7

The boy was sitting on the pavement, crying bitterly. "How did it happen?" asked a sympathetic gentleman who chanced to be…

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Shocking Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A shocking railway collision was occurred near Antwerp, in Belgium, and twenty-six bodies have already been extracted, and others were penned…

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Belgian Railway Collision Twenty Six Bodies Recovered. More Under the Wreckage. London, May 22

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A collision occurred on the railway near Antwerp, Belgium. Twenty-six bodies have already been extricated and others are pinned under the…

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Ghastly Results. a Frantic Struggle. 40 Killed So Injured. London, May 22

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

There were ghastly mutilations and crushings in the Antwerp railway accident and several decapitations. Several hands were clenched, the fingers…

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Accidentally Killed

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A Jugiong man, named George Heggarty, was accidentally killed on the Coolac-Jugiong road on Tuesday evening. How the accident occurred…

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Serious Accidents

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A very serious accident occurred at the local railway station on Thursday morning, when Shunter William O'Brien was caught between two…

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Accident to Dr. Warren

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A sensational incident occurred at the Picnic Races on Thursday afternoon who Dr. Warren had a narrow escape of a serious accident, and as…

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Pea-rifle Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A narrow escape from being shot by a pea-rifle was experienced by a young man named P. Pendrick, a resident of Gurwood-street, Wagga, on Wednesday…

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Airship Disaster. an Ambition's Structure. Fall of 300 Feet. Many People Injured. a Discouraged Enterprise. London, May 25

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

The Morrell airship, which is 430 feet long and propelled by 210 horse power engines, while making a trial trip at Berl[?]ley, California, yesterday…

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Shot by a Brother. Distressing Gun Accident. a Lad Killed. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

A sad accident occurred yesterday at Carumbin Creek Station, on the Tweed and Brisbane line. Mrs. Smith, mother of Leslie Smith, aged 11, had…

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General Telegrams. SYDNEY, Monday. Vehicular Accident at Parkes

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

At Parkes yesterday, Mrs. Freeman, landlady of Tattersall's Hotel, Miss Rowley, a barmaid, and a boy named Russell were thrown from a buggy…

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"Didn't Know It Was Loaded." Terrible Shooting Fatality

The Worker · Thursday 28 May 1908 · page 31

Three boys, John Smith (12), Leslie Smith (11), and Thomas Craig (7) were at the homestead of George Smith at Corrurubin Creek, 25 miles from Murwillumbah,…

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Electric Cars Collide. Rush Down Hill. Crash Into Stationary Cars. Seventy People Injured. London, May 27

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1908 · page 2

After two electric cars at Philadelphia had collided and were partly wrecked, they both rushed down a hill and collided with four stationary…

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