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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

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Fatalities and Accidents. Double Drowning Tragedy at Mount Victoria

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 2

A double drowning fatality, which has cast quite a gloom over the community, occurred on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Myers and Mrs. Ellis, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William…

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A Motor Fatality. Car Driver Arrested

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 1

On Saturday morning. Newtown was the scene of a sad motor fatality. Two little girls, Mario Ouinn and Vera Higgins, who. it…

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Coach Accident at Mt. Wilson. Lithgow Boy Killed; Girl Injured

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 2

An unfortunate driving accident occurred at Mount Wilson yesterday, afternoon, as a result of which the four-year-old' son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laura, of Oakey. Park, met…

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Found in a Greek. Orange Child Drowned. Orange

The Bathurst Times · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 3

The i[?] years old daughter of Mr. E. T. HicKs, of Orantge, ws found dead in a Greek near the latter's orchard yesterday. The had been…

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Accident to Mr. C. Miller

Leader · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 2

On Saturday evening Mr. C. Miller, president of the I.O.O.F. Race Club, on returning from the races was un[?]ressing a young horse, when it…

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Accident at a Picnic

National Advocate · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 2

A little girl named Ida Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs. W. A. Smith attended a picnic on the Macquarie a few evenings ago, and while…

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Drowned in Swimming Baths Fate of Married Women a Mt. Victoria Fatality. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 2

A double drowning fatality occurred on Sunday afternoon in the Fairy Dell Swimming Baths at the rear of "The Grange" a boarding house at Mount…

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Serious Coach Accident Boy Killed. Little Girl Injured. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 2

A telegram from Mount Victoria states that on Sunday afternoon, a coach accident resulted in the death of a boy named Laing, who lived with…

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Two Women Drowned in Mountain Swimming Baths. an Unwitnessed Tragedy Mount Victoria

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 1

Two married sisters, Mrs. Edith Myers, the mother of four children, and Mrs. Iveline Ellis, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Field of Mount…

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Crushed to Death Child Under a Coach. Accident Near Lithgow. Lithgow

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 1

A fiveyear old child named Laing, residing with its parents at Lithgow, was killed as a result of a coach accident yesterday…

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Accident to Mr. Harry Hogan

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 3

Says the Orange "Leader" :—Mr. Harry Hogan, the popular W.D.R.A. stipendiary steward, is carrying the marks on his face of a motor…

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Fatal Motor Collision

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

A collision took place at Cross-street, Double Bay, yesterday morning, between a motor car and a tram. Two of the occupants of the motorcar. Frederick Piercy. 26. and Minnie Hooper…

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Sensational Collision Motor Car and Tram. Two Persons Killed. Others Injured. Motor Completely Wrecked

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 3

sensational collision between a tram and a motor car, resulting in two persons being killed and others injured, and the wrecking of the car and…

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Mt. Victoria Drowning Tragedy. Inquest and Verdict

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

Mr. E. P. Richards, district coroner, on Monday held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths, of Mrs. Edith Helena Myers and Mrs. Louisa Ivaline Isabel…

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Sunk in a Collision. London

Leader · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

The Minnesota, of 20,700 tons, has been sunk in a collision…

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A Fatal Collision Motor Runs Into Tram. Two Persons Killed. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

A sensational collision, which took place at Double Bay to-day between a tram and a motor car, resulted in two persons being fatally injured,…

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American Battleship Lost in Collision. a 20-Thousand Tonner Gone. New York

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

The United Slates battleship Mimic-cola has-been sunk in .a collision. The Minnesota was -built a her displacement being 20,700 tons…

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The Leader and Stock and Station News. Wednesday, January 17th, 1917. Local and General. Serious Accident at Blayney

Leader · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

Algernon Cheeny, a boy of 14, bad one of his legs badly crushed by a horse falling with him at night. The lad was compelled to drag himself a…

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Serious Motor Accident. Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

A motor car containing two men and three young women, coming citywards, collided with an outward bound tram in New South Head Road at…

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A Painful Accident

Leader · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 5

A very painful and serious accident happened at the Government Demonstration Farm, Condobolin, last week. A man named Jack Hanlon, aged 40…

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