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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Fatal Accident. Girl Accidentally Shot

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 24 May 1910 · page 3

A daughter of P Logan, aged 17, of Casino, was accidentally shot dead by her brother while out shooting with a rifle yesterday. On return:…

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Aviation Accidents. Fall of 2000 Feet. Vancouver, May 23

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1910 · page 2

At Elmswood, Pennyslavania, Oscar Le Roy fell 2000 feet from a balloon and only broke his leg. Garuli, while flying in an aeroplane at Madrid, fell…

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Sulkey Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 27 May 1910 · page 2

Mr Charles Purcell, of Wondalga, met with a mishap on Monday evening whilst returning home from Tumut. He was driving in n sulkey, and the horse shied, causing the…

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Accidents

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 May 1910 · page 4

The week has been full of mishaps, all more or less of a serious nature. Coming first was an adventure by Messrs. H. and J…

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A Barque Wrecked. Part of Crew Drowned. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 5

The barque Swanhilda, bound from Cardiff for Antofagasta, Chili, went ashore at States Island, Argentina. Fifteen of the crew were saved, but…

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Tragedy of the Sea. British Barque Lost. Sixteen Drowned. Vancouver, May 27

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 2

The British barque Swanhilda was wrecked on Staten Island, south-west of Terra del Fuggo. The captain, wife and child and thirteen of the crew…

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Naval Disaster. Submarine in Collision. the Vessel Sunk. 27 Lives Lost. Vancouver, May 27

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 2

The French submarine Pluvoise was in collision this morning with the steamer Ville de Calais at Bover. The former was sunk and the commander,…

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Perils of the Sea Emigrant Ship in a Fog. Collision Causes Panic. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 31 May 1910 · page 2

The Russian steamship Lituriana, with 1,00 emigrants aboard for New York, ran on the rocks at the Orkneys during a dense fog…

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News From the Capital. Sydney, Monday. Truck Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1910 · page 3

Eleven persons were badly injured at Walhalls. (Victoria) through a truck on a tramway overturning and precipitating the occupants down a…

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Accidental Death. Inquest on Ganmain Station Employee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1910 · page 3

The adjourned inquest on the body of the 14-year-old boy, George James Stamp, who died at the Wagga Hospital last Wednesday after the…

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Death of George Stamp the Coroner's Inquest. Accidental Death

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 31 May 1910 · page 2

The adjourned inquest concerning the death of the lad, George James Stamp, which took place in the Wagga Hospital on Wednesday last…

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Lives Lost in Collision

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 2

A message from Falmouth states that the H.M.S. Wasp ran down the bank steamer Washington, off here to-day. Four lives were lost…

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Serious Strike Fights Fifty Non-unionists Injured. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 2

Unionist strikers at the Kenneil Wood-yard, Boness, in Linlithgowshire, Scotland, overcoming a posse of police entered the yard and assaulted the…

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Unionist Strikers. Police Overcome. Many Non-unionist Injured. London, June 1

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 2

Unionist strikers from Kinneil Wood Yard, Bo. Ness, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, overcoming the police entered the yard and assaulted non-unionists, who…

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Serious Tramway Accident

The Worker · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 19

At Walhalla, Victoria, on Sunday a serious accident occurred on the tramway line of the Long Tunnel Extended Gold-mining Company. A party of…

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Accident

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 2

A serious accident happened at Gundagai yesterday morning, when a team of horses bolted alter crossing the bridge, and going towards the…

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Curious Accident on Popular Line

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 4

"In a closely-packed carriage of the Dover line the lamp overhead, which had just been [?] fell among other things, upon the face of a beautiful,…

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Knocked Down by Tram. Woman Terribly Injured. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 2

An elderly woman, Mrs. Smith, was knocked down by a tram at St. Peters and pinned beneath the wheels. She sustained terrible injuries. and is…

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Taxi-cab Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

As a result of last night's taxicab collision, in which a lady sustained a fractured skull, John Royle, 32 years of age, the chauffeur, was…

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Shocking Fatality. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

A railway [?]fettler, Patrick Morriss, was run over and killed by a train at Hornsby to-day. His head was shockingly battered…

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