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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

96 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 5

Is Genius an Accident?

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

Are first sons more likely to bo great than second or third sons ? It is the question of heredity over again, but it hast been dealt with lately in an interesting way by an export…

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Chapter of Accidents

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 1

A very clear illustration of the truism that "Misfortunes never come, singly" was given in this district during the past few days. Last Wednesday week a very severe…

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Melrose. Painful Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 1

It is my painful duty to record an accident which happened last Wednesday to Mrs. Pengelly of Wonder Dale, Tinda. It appears that she was…

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Burning Fatality

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 1

THE community received a rude shock on Friday morning when news was passed round that Miss Amy Marlin, victim of the recent burning accident,…

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Burning Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 6

A painful burning accident befel Miss Alice Marlin, aged 12, eldest daughter of Mr. F. W. Marlin, about noon on Tuesday last. It appears she was attending to some…

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Telegraphic. Tram Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday.—A young man named Frank Coolahan was killed yesterday by a tram at Botany. DEATH OF A MINISTER…

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Traveller. Street Accidents

The Canowindra Star · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 5

AS the vessel that is continually taken to the well is sure to be broken at last, so with most people who goto and for among…

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Accidentally Wounded

Forbes Times · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 4

Private Dunning of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has been accidentally wounded at Vintnerberg…

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Burning Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 6

While in the act of removing a pan of boiling fat from off a cooking stove the other day, Mrs. E. Peters, of the Albion Hotel, received some severe burns through…

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Drowning

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 8 October 1901 · page 2

Two brothers named Cells were drowned in the river at Warren…

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Boating Fatality

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 8 October 1901 · page 2

Edward Brown and John Eastern-brook, both aged 17, were drowned [?] the Parramntta River, last night, through their boat swamping. The…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 15 October 1901 · page 4

QUITE a gloom was cast over the town on Thursday last, when the sad intelligence became known that Mr C. E. Doney, awell-known and highly…

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Accidents

Western Champion · Friday 18 October 1901 · page 10

Last Thursday afternoon an accident occurred in the vicinity of Moulden's Hill that might have had a very serious result. Mr Walter Cottingham,…

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Traveller. Street Accidents

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 19 October 1901 · page 10

[?] the vessel that is continually taken to the well is sure to be broken at last so with most people who go to and fro among…

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Boating Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 4

A SAD boating fatality has occurred at Cairns. Six men, well known in Cairns, named Bradley, Lyons, Christison, Leslie, Hollett, and Harrison,…

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Serious Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 November 1901 · page 2

An accident of a most serious nature befell a lad named Regan at West Wyalong about 1 o'clock on Wednesday last. The boy, who is about 14 years…

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Accident on a Battleship

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 13 November 1901 · page 2

By the bursting of a big gun on board the battleship Royal Sovereign as Astakos (Greece), an officer and six artillerymen were killed, and a…

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Railway Accident

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 22 November 1901 · page 2

Two engines with 30 tracks of sheep attached left the rails near Carcoar last night. One driver was thrown out and severely shaken, and…

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Chapter of Accidents. Almost " Squashed."

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 22 November 1901 · page 1

MR. P. HOOLAHAN was the victim of a painful accident on Sunday evening, 17th instant, in which he sustained amongst other injuries a broken collar…

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Drowning Fatality

Western Champion · Friday 29 November 1901 · page 15

On Friday evening, about 6.30 o'clock, the sad news that a man named Charles Morrison, a resident of Trundle, had been drowned in the…

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