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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Accident at Bowling Green

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 2

While working at fixing the illuminations of the Wagga Bowling Club's green on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Joseph Anderson, plumber and…

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Motor Car Wrecked. Four Passengers Seriously Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1913 · page 2

A party of motorists were travelling along the Parramatta-road last night, when the car swerved over a culvert, and was completely wrecked. One of…

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Sensational Explosion. Seven Persons Injured. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 2

A sensational explosion occurred in Paris at shop carried on by two Frenchmen named Fowry and Taupin, where firearms and ammunition…

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Items of News. a Street Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 2

After attending the produce sales at Redfern Sydney, on Saturday morning. Mr. Johnston the well-known carrier, offered to drive Mr. M'Clure…

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Man Seriously Injured. Another Supposed to Have Been Burnt

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 2

Thomas Beans was rushing across the blazing grass when he collapsed. A fireman rescued him, but he received serious injuries…

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Accident in Fitzmaurice-street

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 2

A man named Alexander Clarke working on the Tambarumba railway line, was driving a sulky along Fitzmaurice-street last night when the…

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Man Fatally Injured. Two Arrests. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 2

The man Charles Acheson found in Lerchhardt in an unconscious condition late last night died on the way to the hospital. Subsequently the…

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Minor Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 2

Albert Thompson, aged 18. living in the vicinity of the railway gates. Albury-road, was cycling along Fitzmaurice-street yesterday about noon…

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Railway Accident. Ten Persons Killed. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 2

Ten persons were killed and thirty serious injured, as the result of a railway accident in Pittsburg United States…

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Drowning Accident. at Colinroobie

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 2

A good deal of consternation was caused at the Colinroobie sports ground on Wednesday, when it became known that a young immigrant named Thomas…

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Shocking Fatality. Caused by a Horse. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 2

While a miner named James Atkinson was helping a wheeler with his horse in the Hebburn Colliery, the animal plunged forward and kicked…

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Items of News. Recent Arrival Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 4

A young man names Thomas Barnett, a recent arrival from Ireland: aged 24 years, was drowned at Collarenebri, 24 miles from Narandera. on…

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Boating Fatality. Two Persons Drowned. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 2

A blocking boating fatality occurred in the harbor this afternoon two persons being drowned, and another had a narrow escape. A man named…

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Sad Drowning Calamity. Mother and Daughter Drowned. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

A young married woman, named Beatrice Dummett, and her 2½-year-old daughter, were drowned off Cremorne yesterday, through…

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Bluejackets Quarrel. Artilleryman Drowned. Malta

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

As the result of a statement by a Multose boatman, two bluejackets named Payne and Woodcock, belonging to the Royal Arthur, are charged with…

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Powder Monkey Injured. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

George Ford, a powder monkey, was seriously injured at the Government workshops. Parramatta River through a charge unexpectedly exploding…

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Bloold Poisoning Fatality Wellington (N.z.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

Dr. Harrison, of Eltham, a well-known practitioner, a fortnight ago operated on a child for an abscess on the neck. While bandaging the…

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Station Fatality Man Killed While Rounding Horses. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

At Wentworth, John Houston, 35, a labourer, was rounding up horses on the station, when the animal he was astride bolted. Houston's head struck…

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Accident at Uranquinty

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

A serious are occurred at Uranquinty railway station yesterday. as a result of which Mr. Stanley Maclure is now a patient in a Wagga private…

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Accident to Firemen. Temora

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

Another destructive fire occurred in Main-street shortly after 5 o'clock this morning. It originated in Fullarton Bros.' grocery store. and the flames…

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