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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

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Five Drowned. Girl in Difficulties Rescuers Sacrifices. Perth

The Bathurst Times · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 2

White bathing at Scarborough on Saturday morning a young girl named Kathleen Morgan got into difficulties. four young men who were with the…

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A Sulky Accident

National Advocate · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 2

Whilst returning from a drive yesterday afternoon, Mesdames Casdey and Dibley and three children had a narrow escape from serious injuries…

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Drowing Fatality Perth, (W.a.)

National Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 1

At Hornsby Beach, Kathleen Gol[?]man, a girl of 16, got into difficulties while bathing, and was drowned. Others who tried to rescue her. and lost…

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Tram Smash. Six Persons Injured. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 3

A tram bound for the city from La Perous[?] stopped tit Botany-street, when another following up dashed into it. The impact was severe, and six persons…

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Bicycle Collision

Leader · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 1

A collision, luckily not fraught with serious consequences, occurred at the intersection of Summer and Sale streets, on Monday. A lad…

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Boating Fatality. Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The Adelaide outer harbor was the scane of a sensational boating totality on New Year's Day. Through, the overturning of a yacht, four young…

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Two Girls Drowned SYDNEY

National Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

Two daughters of Mr. Thos. Connolly, a saddler, were drowned in the Manning River, near Wingham yesterday, while on a picnic excursion with…

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Two Children Drowned Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

Two girls were drowned in the Manning River yesterday, while the mother and father were fishing from a boat. They were paddling in the…

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Remarkable Fatality Fireman's Neck Broken.legs and Arms Out Off. Accident on Western Train

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred at mileage S[?].S colse to Hartley Vale yesterday afternoon which resulted i Fireman A. Jamieson Losing his life…

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Four Men Drowned a Boat Swamped. Adelaide

National Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

A boating fatality occurred in the outer harbor at Port Adelaide to-day, when four young men, Stephen and Arthur Duke, Alfred Anderson and…

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Bathurst Fireman Killed a Terrible Death. Fatality Near Hartley

National Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

Albert James Jamieson, a railway fireman lately residing with his wife and three children at Violet Street, Bathurst South met his death in a sad…

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Queensland Floods Clermont Deluged. Many People Drowned. Great Damage Done. Brisbane

National Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

Later information is coming to hand regarding the disastrous flood at the municipal town of Clermont which practically swept away the main street,…

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Two Girls Drowned Got Out Op Their Depth. Bodies Recovered. Wingham

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

Two girls were drowned in the Manning River yesterday. They were out picnici and went into the water to paddle. They got beyond their depth…

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Two Men Drowned Holiday Boating Disaster Rough Sea Swamps Yacht. Adelaide

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 3

The overturning of a yache in the out harbor was the cause of a sensational boating disaster yeterdays when four young men were drowned!…

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Disastrous Floods. Queensland Town Inundated. Many People Drowned and Missing. Communications Cut Off

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 1

A message received from Brisbane gives meagre details of a big disaster at Clermont, iu Central Queensland, where, owing to floods, three parts of…

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Drowning Accident

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 17

In the upper reaches of the Manning River, on Monday, the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Connolly, of Wingham, lost their…

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Surf Tragedy. Six Bathers Drowned

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 26

A drowning fatality occurred on Monday at Scarborough beach six miles from Perth (W.A.) Kathleen Gornall (16), while…

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Trams Collide. Number of Passengers Injured

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 26

On Sunday afternoon, a tram car, proceeding from La Perouse to Circular Quay, crashed into a station car at Botany Street…

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Residents Drowned Wholesale Clermont's Terri Ble Toll Brisbane

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 1

The first two casualties occurred at Clermont when a young man, Wing Leng, attempted to reach the bridge but found the current too strong…

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Lue Mems Death of a Child—accident with a Psa Rifle— New Year's Sports

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 20

Shot in the Hand.—Dick Holland, who was accidentally shot in the hand last week by a pea-rifle, and who was taken to Mudgee to have his…

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