Shocking Fatality
A shocking fatality occurred a Munn's Maizena Works a Merimbuls on Tuesday morning, when a man named James Fergus Colquhoun,…
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Accidents, 1905
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A Coaching Accident
Shortly after midday on Monday as Mr. L. Lambert was returning to Berrima with the mail coach, a runaway occurred, which resulted in one…
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Kalgoorlie, Tuesday—Owen Tully, a middle-aged man, was completely cut in halves by the tram at the Golden Gate bridge, bear the Boulder Block…
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On Monday last the horses attached to Mr. L. Lambert's coach, which runs between Berrima and Moss Vale, took-fright at a passing motor cycle. They were at…
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A sad case of suicide occurred on Friday morning at Yelverton-street, St. Patent where Samuel Marks, a very old and at one time wealthy and respected readout, Hved…
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A distressing fatality happened at the Port Melbourne rifle range on on Friday. While members of the Tramway Rifle Club were firing off a…
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A more sensational accident than that which occurred at Watson's Bay on Sunday it would be difficult to imagine. James O'Sullivan, 23, a…
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A serious accident occurred near Mittagong on Friday morning last, by which a young daughter of Mr. A. Franklin had her leg fractured. It…
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The death of James O'Sullivan, 23 barman, which occurred on the 28th Sept., as the result of a fall over the cliffs at Watson's Boy, was the subject…
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Whilst working on the roof of an outhouse at Mr. W. G. Menzie's residence, Glenquarry, on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Joel Wills, an old resident of Kangatoon,…
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A sensational shooting accident occurred at Colao (Vic.) on Monday. A young man named Robins was lowering the hammer of a gun, and the charge exploded. The Pellets…
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A storeman named Carl Arthur Jensen, sged23, residing at Wooilahra and employed at Messrs. Goldsborcugh, Mott, and Co.'s warehouse,…
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Whilst playing in the school ground Clifton Miller, son of Mr. Miller, headmaster of the Sutton Forest public school, met with a painful accident on Friday, by which…
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Enenezer Jones, a miner, was gaged cleaning up a mine on the Moonlight Lead at Kanowns on Thursday afternoon, when some dynamite,…
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The Rockdale railway station was the scene of a fatal accident on Thursday evening, the victim being Fredk, Henry Brawn, 55 years of age. The…
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What appeared to be a trifling accident on Tuesday results in the death of a school girel named Nellie Hallams. The deceased was a scholar at the Cleveland street…
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There are several reasons why our railroads kill and maim thousands each year, while English railroad travelling is as safe as sitting at home. But the…
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While the Picton half-squadron of the Mounted Rifles was going through the musketry course on Monday Corporal Ben. Larkin, who was marking was shot through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bowral Free Press And Berrima District Intelligencer. 15.11.05. News Gleanings. ACCIDENT
A rather painful accident occurred last Friday night to a young lad named Willie Toone, whose parents reside in Woodbine-Street, Bowral. He had been to the Presbyterian Band of Hope, and on his…
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