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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 September 1917 · page 2

Mr. Stan Hincksman, carrier, met with an accident on Wednesday afternoon at the railway yard. He was unloading a lorry when his foot slipped between the vehicle and the truck…

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A Nubba Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 September 1917 · page 2

A man named Holdaway, an electrician employed by the railway department, sustained a broken leg as a resuit of a motor tricycle on which he…

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A Leg Amputated. a Recent Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 September 1917 · page 2

It was necessary to amputate Mr. Robert Potter's right leg as, the Burrangong District Hospital on Saturday. Mr. Potter wan admitted to the…

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A Shocking Accident. at Daroobalgie Freezing Works

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 September 1917 · page 4

A wave of general regret swept over the Forbes community last week. when it was learned than Mr. H. H. ("Jim") Heinko had met with an…

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Fatality at Greenwich Park

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 September 1917 · page 2

The Caroner (Mr. Harold O'Brien) dispensed with an inquest into the cause of death of the little girl, Sheila Betts, who died in Goulburn on Wednesday afternoon from shock consequent…

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Burning Accident at Greenwich Park

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 September 1917 · page 4

A little girl named Sheila Betts, seven years of ago, only daughter of Mr. G. Betts, of Greenwich Park, was severely burned at her parents' residence on Wednesday morning. It…

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The Fatality That Wasn't

Young Witness · Friday 7 September 1917 · page 1

A wild and horrible tale went the rounds yesterday. It was on everybody's lips that a chlid bad been run down by a motor car on the Lynch…

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Grogan Burning Accident. the Victim Succumbs

Young Witness · Friday 7 September 1917 · page 1

Several weeks ago, a dreadful burn ing accident occurred at Grogan, when Mrs. M.McLintock, wife of a farmer residing in that locality, receded…

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Husband Accidentally Shoots Wife

Young Witness · Friday 7 September 1917 · page 6

Herbert John Roboth[?], rebbit catcher. residing In House street, Quarry Hill, near Bendige, Victoria, and his wife, went out in the bush rabbit…

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700 Mexican Cavalry Drowned Los Angeles

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 September 1917 · page 2

Two hundred Mexican cavalry, men were drowned when a barge capsized on the Mexican coast…

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Dreadful Accident. a Soldier's Death

Young Witness · Tuesday 11 September 1917 · page 1

Charles Edward Ganderton, 48, of the Garrison Military Police, was carrying some potatoes on Saturday afternoon when he tripped and fell. He…

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Accident at Michelago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 September 1917 · page 4

Mr. L. Tynan, of Tarago, railway employee fell from the top of a bridge near Michelago while at work on Tuesday. Several ribs were broken and he was badly bruised about the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 September 1917 · page 4

While playing in the yard at her parents home, Grafton-street, North Goulburn, on Saturday morning, little Dorothy Berrell, aged 2 years fell and cut her forehead. The little…

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Motor Accident at Towrang. a Narrow Escape

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 September 1917 · page 4

Mr. Herkes, of "Wollondale," Towrang, had a sensational experience on Saturday night, his motorcar (a single-seater) overturning and him. self and his wife being pinned underneath it. The…

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China Flooded. Three Million Homeless Great Numbers Drowned (Reuter's Telegram). LONDON

Young Witness · Friday 14 September 1917 · page 2

Reuter's Shanghai correspondent states that owing to floods, three million are homeless and destitute in the province of ChI-Li. The numbers…

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Shocking Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 September 1917 · page 3

While Alma Bull, aged 12, was getting in a boat at the Paterson River a rifle accidentally exploded. She received gunshot wounds in the right…

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Sad Fatal Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 September 1917 · page 3

It is our painful duty (writes "Grenfell Observer") to chronicle another sad accident, resulting in the death of a bright little lad named Leslie…

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Serious Sulky Accident

Young Witness · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 5

ORANGE, Thursday. — Mr. T. O'Connoll, a former of Orange, is now lying unconscious in the local hospital as the result of a sulky accident on…

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Current News. Terrible Burning Accident

Young Witness · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 5

The "Coonamble Times" reports a sad accident, which subsequently proved fatal, which occurred at the residence of Mr. G. Bell, painter, of…

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A Burning Fatality

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 September 1917 · page 4

Recently triplets were born in the home of Goo Gum, a Chinese, residing at Newtown, but one of the wee mortals was fatally burned on Tuesday…

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