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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Singular Fatality. ADELAIDE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

While a shooting party was returning home at Adelaide last night, the fly-door struck a gun carried by a man named Doman. The weapon…

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Motor Car Collision. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

Two motor cars collided in Centennial Park this morning. Both were badly damaged. The twelve persons who were in them escaped with…

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Accidentally Shot. Necessity for Legislation. Temora

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

Aubrey Michael Spillane, aged 6½ years, was shot through the hand and body by a pea rifle handled by a youth named Thomas Gideon…

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Sensational Incident Explosion of Fireworks. Man Shockingly Injured. Hobart

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1913 · page 2

While Captain Holyman, of the steamer Narrawah, was giving a fireworks display at Stanley, in the presence of over 100 people, a detonator,…

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Burning Accident

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 2

A little girl, aged 13 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Higgins, of Blowering, was severely burned on Tuesday last. The mother had been…

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Buggy Accident

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 5

An accident occurred about I o’clock to-day (Tuesday), in Cowabbie street, Coolamon, which was remarkable in the fact that no…

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Fatal Accident. Boy Run Over

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 2

At about 12.20 on Wednesday morning, and while the townspeople were still ushering in the New Year, a sad fatal accident occurred to a lad named…

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Shocking Mine Accident. Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4

A misfired charge exploded in the Broken Hill North Mine. A miner David, Nicholson, 32, was desembowelled, and died instantly…

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Steamer Collision. Twenty Persons Drowned. Newport (U.s.a.), Sat

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 2

The steamer Julia Luchenabih collided with the British steamer Indrakula in Chesapeke Bay. The former was sunk. Twenty sailors, the…

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Mechanic Drowned. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 2

A hydroplane overturned. Beckop, the mechanic was drowned, but the aviator was rescued…

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Two Girls Drowned MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 2

Two girls named Wood and Easton, were drowned while bathing at Warrnambool. They were swept out to sea, but the bodies were afterwards…

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Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 2

The lad Gus Kelly 10 years of age whose parents reside in Fox-street, Wagga, and who broke one of his legs through falling off the…

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Women Injured in Crush

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 2

Over 15,000 needle workers, mostly women, stormed the doors of the Hippodrome in New York in order to attend a meeting called by the…

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Collision at Sea. Steamer Sunk. LONDON

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 2

It is reported that the steamer Julia Lucken has been sunk as the result of a collision with a British steamer in Chespeake Bay. The…

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Fishing Craft Wrecked. Seven Persons Drowned. San Diego

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 2

The immigration yacht and two fishing craft were, blown ashore and dashed to fragments by the storm that was raging on the Pacific coast…

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S D Drowning Fatality Lockhart Resident's Sad End

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 2

News was received by Mr Ike Dickson, of Lockhart, a brother-in-law, last week that Mr George Henderson had accidentally drowned in…

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Motor Car Overturned. Two Men Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 2

A motor car overturned at Five Dock this afternoon. Two motorists (Bates and Wood) were pinned beneath, and when extricated were…

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Tram Collision. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 2

Two trams collided in Flinders-street Moore-Park, the morning. As the result two men, a woman, and a little girl were injured, while the cars…

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Gun Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 2

During the artillery practice at Shoeburyness a big gun's breech lock blow out, and a captain and a gunner were killed and several wounded…

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Marine Collision. Ten Persons Drowned. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 4

Ten persons were drowned as the result of a collision in the Mersey between a steamer and a fishing smack…

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