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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Thrown from a Sulky. Two Occupants Injured. One Seriously

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 2

RETURNING home from the send-off and presentation to Mr. J. J. Nichols, at Whatmans Gilmore Hall, yesterday morning about 4 o clock,…

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Panic in the Oddfellows' Hall. a Picture Show Sensation Several Persons Injured

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 3

Last night the small audience at the Continental Picture Company's entertainment in the Oddfellows' Hall, Tumut, became panic stricken…

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Serious Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 2

We very much regret to have received news of a serious accident that had befallen Vera Pinkstone (niece of our editor) on the Ascot…

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Fall from Aeroplane M. Bleriot Injured. London, Dec. 13

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 2

M. Bleriot's aeroplane collided with the roof of a Constantinople building. In the somersault which followed Bleriot was injured by a fall of 18…

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Chapter of Accidents

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 3

While exercising the race mare, Lady Wall[?], on the local racecourse one morning last week, Mr. Hugh McLean had occasion to give the…

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Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 December 1909 · page 2

It is with regret that we have to report an accident which befel James, eldest son of Mr. F. S Murray, shire engineer. He was riding, when the…

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Accident at Electric Station SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 2

Harold Baker, an electrician, camp in contact with a live wire at the electric light station, Balmain, to-day, and received about five thousand volts…

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King-street Tram Fatality

The Worker · Thursday 23 December 1909 · page 19

At the adjourned inquest on Wednesday week into the death of Sydney Arthur Tucker, at the Sydney Hospital on November 30, as the result of injuries…

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Boating Fatality. Men Drowned in Macquarie River. Wellington

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 8

A boating accident occurred last night in the Macquarie River, resulting in the death of two young men, named Samuel Hamilton, whose…

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A Camper Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1909 · page 2

A drowning accident took plane about nine miles from Hay on Tuesday, the victim being Arthur John Sugden, an officer of the local Lands…

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Burnt to Death. Terrible Fate of Two Children. Another Severely Injured. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1909 · page 3

A shocking burning accident occurred this afternoon at the home of Edgar Hooper, proprietor of the Benalla Iron Foundry…

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Drowning Fatality

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 3

On Tuesday morning last a very sad drowning fatally occurred in the Tumut river at the end of Merrivale-st. Two lads, named mcGowan…

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Sad Drowning Case

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 2

On Tuesday morning last, at about 9 o'clock, a lad named Stanley Ridley, aged about 12 years, who resided with his grand-mother (Mrs. Ridley) and an…

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Tumut Sulky Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 3

On Tuesday morning Messrs H. McKinnon and A Dowsett essayed a visit to Tumut from Toomorroma. The horse (a young one) they were…

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