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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Accidents
55 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 3
Boxing Day was a tragic holiday on the Hawkesbury River. A treacherous tide claimed four victims, including three children—two boys and a girl who were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Christmas holidays were marked by four sad drowning cases in the Hawkesbury district all of them on Boxing Day. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund G. Bull, of 22…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The first regular meeting in the New Year , was held on Monday when the following were present:—The President (Cr. A : Buckland), and Crs. A. C. Anderson, C. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday of last week quite a gloom was cast over Annangrove when it became known that Mr, F. L. Martin had beer found dead. Mr. Martin had left his residence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shocking accident happened in Brabynstreet, Windsor, about 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, when a workman named Arthur Herbert Banks, aged 53 years, was crushed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—In your issue of the 8th inst. appears a report of the sad Boxing Day fatality in which Mr. James Redfern lost his life. In this report mention is made of a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A serious motor accident occurred on the Windsor-road, near the Vineyard, at about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. Out of control, a motor car, owned and driven by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How Raymond Kinnear Robertson, aged 20, wool classer, was injured when a motor car, in which he was joy riding, collided with a wall at Windsor railway station, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charlie Nicholls, the Freeman's Reach fast bowler, who plays grade cricket with Cumberland, has been compelled to retire from the game for the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A small boy who ran into the path of a landing aeroplane at Palm Beach on Sunday afternoon had a narrow escape, and the machine, which crashed, was badly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two men narrowly escaped with their lives in a terrific explosion at the Riverstone Meat Works on Sunday night. At about 10 o'clock William Spice (29) and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When a motor car overturned on the Main Northern-road near Pitt Town, about five miles from Windsor, on Sunday night, the six occupants, including three women, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An extraordinary accident happened about 9 o'clock, on Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown board at the Fitzroy Hotel. Mrs. Brown was away posting a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday, 20th February last, Miss Emma Knight, the second eldest daughter (of Mr. and Mrs. C. Knight, of Schofields, was united in the holy banns of matrimony to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five people were injured—two critically and three seriously—when a single seater Morris Cowley car overturned on the Windsor-road, near the turn-off to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The level crossing at Schofields was the scene of a shocking smash between a motor lorry and a train early on Saturday morning. All that is left of the lorry now is the bonnet and the differential—the wreckage, with much furniture was strewn along the line. The driver of the lorry was badly injured, but two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Joshua George Singleton, aged 59 years, of Lower Hawkesbury, left his home in a boat on Wednesday of last week, at about 1 p.m. He started down the river and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The whole of the people of the big Cumberland electorate will be sorry to learn of the very serious accident that that befel Mr. W. R. Fitzsimons, M.L.A., one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Recently, Mr. O. J. Thompson, of Central Macdonald, met with an accident at Wiseman's Ferry punt, as a result of which he claimed £5/15/- from Colo Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. W. R. Fitzsimons, M.D.A., died in Sydney Hospital at 10.30 on Saturday night as a result of being knocked over by a motor car in George-street, Sydney on the…
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