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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

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Double Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

A double drowning accident occurred on the Manning River yesterday, Thomas Connelly his wife, four sons, and two daughters started on a boating trip to the upper reaches of the…

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Two Girls Drowned. Sad Holiday Fatality. Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

A raeseage from Wingham states that two Girls were drowned in the Manning Rover yesterday. Whille the mother and father of the girls were…

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Returned Soldier Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

Sergeant Stanley Smith, the son of Canon Smith, who recently returned from the war, met with a nasty accident at Collaroy Beach yester. day (Monday) afternoon. He was sledging a…

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Beach Tragedy. Six People Drowned. Perth

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 3

At Scarborpugh Beach, near Perth, this morning, a girl named Kathleen Gorman, whilst bathing, got into dimcuttles in the water, which was over…

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Hit with Adze. a Brother Injured

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

Sylvester Aikman (aged 10) son of Mr. A. A[?]man, of Lovell street, is a lucky toy to have escapod with only minor injuries to the head as a result…

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Death by Drowning. Coronial Inquiry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 4

In connection with the death of Thomas E. Lanham, whose body was found in a watercourse at North Yarrunga, as already reported, a coronial inquiry was held before Mr. H. W. Taylor…

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Motor Fatality. Mr A. E. Bowden Killed

The Yass Courier · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

The accident by which Mr A. E. Bowden, of M’Intosh and Bowden, the well-known builders and contractors, Yass, met a sudden death,…

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Bathing Fatality

Young Witness · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

Arthur Tayden. (13), was drowned while lathing at Galargambone bridge, Coonamble, this week…

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Lad Drowned

Young Witness · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

Arthur Ryan, aged 14, son of a well known family at Gulargambone, was drowned in the Castlereigh River on Tuesday. afternoon…

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Drowned in Baths

Young Witness · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

Arthur Rae, 20, was found drowned in the ocean baths at Newcastle, on Wednesday. He could not swim, and it is believed that he fainted in the…

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Drowned in a Well

Young Witness · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

John Pearce, a well-known farmer, was found drowned in a well on the Bega town common. A widow and family survive…

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Zeppelins in Collision. Copenhagen

Young Witness · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The Natlonaltidente states that a Are which destroyed a hangar at Tondern was the result of a collision between two Zeppe[?]ns when leaving the…

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Motor Fatality at Yass. Mr. A. E. Bowden Killed

Young Witness · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The accident by which Mr. A. E. Bowden, of McIntosh and Bowden, the well known builders and contractors, Yass, met a sudden death, coming, as…

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50 People Drowned. 100 Others Missing. Queensland Flood Disaster. Clermont Under Water. Survivors in Dire Straits

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

Messages received from Brisbane on Monday night last, give meagre details of a big disaster at Clermont, in Central Queensland, where owing to…

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Family Killed. Edinburgh Accident (Rent r's Telegram). LONDON

Young Witness · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

There are now twelve deaths recorded as a result of the Edinbugh railway accident. A father, mother, and two children of one Glasgow…

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Fatal Motor Cycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

Mr. E. A. Bowdon, of the firm of Messrs. MacIntosh & Bowden, building contractors, of Yass, met with a fatal motor accident near Yass function on Wednesday afternoon. The…

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Edinburgh Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

The deaths from the Edinburgh railway accident now number 12. The father, mother, and two children of a Glasgow family were killed, and two other children are in hospital…

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Drowned in Baths

Young Witness · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

A man named Bell (37) was drowned private baths at Blue's Point yesterday morning…

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Fatal Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

Mr. Thomas Eidridge, a railway fettier of Galong, had the misfortune to meet with injury in the early hours of Saturday morning caused by [?]…

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Three Boys Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1917 · page 4

Woolli Creek, Canterbury, was the scene of a sad drowning fatality on Tuesday afternoon. About 4 o'clock three boys, two of them brothers Raymond Studdart (11), John Studdart (9),…

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