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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

563 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 8 of 29

Accident to Mr Harry Owens

National Advocate · Monday 28 February 1921 · page 2

Mr. H. Owens, the popular President of the Bathurst Trotting Club met with a somewhat serious accident in his home at Glendower, Orton Park…

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Fatal Motor Car Accident. Hill End, This Morning

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 28 February 1921 · page 2

Mrs. Phelan, wife of, Mr. N. Phelan, of Capertee, lost her life whilst her daughter sustained a fractured collarbone in a motor car accident near Hill End yesterday. The…

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Oberon. a Serious Accident

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 2 March 1921 · page 2

Mrs. Charles Morrow's eldest son, Charlie, met with a painful accident on Saturday, having been kicked by a horse. The injured lad was conveyed to Bathurst, where…

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Accident

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 6

Miss Alice Hundy daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hundy, of Campben's Creek, met with an accident about a fortnight ago. Miss…

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Hill End News. the Recent Fatality

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 3

Mrs. Phelan was buried at the Catholic cemetery, Tambaroora, on Monday evening, where her mother and father were also buried. The cortege was the largest seen…

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Sick and Accident Fund. Comprehensive Industrial Scheme Proposed

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 6

At the instance of the president (Mr. Viles) and secretary (Mr. W. Jones) of the Vale of Clwydd Sick and Accident Fund, which has been in operation for three months,…

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Boy Drowned Callous Companions Liverpool

National Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1921 · page 5

Arthur George, 9 years of age, lately residing with his parents at Fairfield was drowned in a waterhole yesterday afternoon. He was swimming…

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Hill End. the Recent Fatality. Coronial Inquiry

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 7 March 1921 · page 1

At the Coroner's Court here on Monday, before Mr. W. F. Hodge, Coroner, a finding of accidental death wan recorded in the death…

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Millthorpe News. ACCIDENT

Leader · Monday 7 March 1921 · page 4

Mr. Cus Glsson, Whilst riding home on Thursday night across Godoiphin Plain, met with an accident which will necessitate his laying up…

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Kandos Mine. Accident at the Mine

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 7 March 1921 · page 1

Whilst working in the coal mine on Tuesday, Mr. Hilton Clifford was struck with some falling coal. He was somewhat badly cut and…

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600 Drowned Chinese in Wrecked Steamer

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 9 March 1921 · page 2

HONGKONG, Tuesday Night. It is believed that 600 Chinese were drowned in the wreck of the British steamer Hongmob off Swatow…

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Head Crushed to Pulp Shocking Accident Near Orange Orange

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 10 March 1921 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred on Cadia-road yesterday afternoon. Herbert Jenner, aged 40, was killed instantly…

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Disaster! Big Mining Accident Twenty Men Believed to Be Dead

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 10 March 1921 · page 2

One of the worst—if not actually the worst—mining disasters in the history of the western districts occur­red at lunch time to-day at Hoskins's…

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Fatal Accident

Leader · Friday 11 March 1921 · page 5

A terrible fatality happened on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock on the Cadia-road, whereby a well-known Forest resident named Herbert…

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Mine Disaster Cadia Quarry Tragedy Nine Men Killed Outright Details of the Accident. Orange

The Bathurst Times · Friday 11 March 1921 · page 2

The complete particulars of the disaster in the Cadia iron mine show that nine men were killed outright. The victims were:—…

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Portland. Narrow Escape From Drowning

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 2

This (Saturday) afternoon, while bathing in Piper's Flat dam about two miles from Portland, Mrs. William McSpadden, of this town, had a very narrow escape from…

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Express Driver Alsopp. Collision Narrowly Averted. Wellington (N.z)

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 28

On February 17 a head-on colli[?] between two express trains were narrowls averted at Hunterville, on the North Island main truk line…

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Accidents

Leader · Monday 14 March 1921 · page 4

When unloading [?] at the Railway Hotel on Saturday [?] Mr. J. Kinghorn, carrier, had a [?]ger so [?] jammed that it had to [?]…

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Comet Collision Hold Tight on June 26

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 4

The greatest display of fireworks that ever happened—aciompanied by bump about which it is more comfortable not to speculate too freely,…

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Escape From Drowning Prompt Rescue at Portland

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1921 · page 2

There was another narrow escape from drowning in the Piper's Flat dam on Sunday. Mr. Jack Ryan, a well known Portland resident, while walking, along a large…

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