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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

111 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 6

Fall Down a Shaft. an Old Man Badly Injured

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 6 September 1905 · page 2

On Sunday night, at about 11 o'clock, an old age pensioner named James Field, aged 75, while on his track [?] fell down a 50 feet shaft, and sustained a broken…

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Accident at the Circus

Western Champion · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 12

The enormous crowd which attended the performance of Wirth's Circus on Monday evening, naturally anticipated a double-barrelled thrill when Chefalo's…

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Terrible Railway Fatality

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 September 1905 · page 7

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred at Dubbo on Saturday night, when Patrick McElhone, a railway porter, was run down by a goods train and cut to…

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Mining Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 2

Mr Bostwringt one of the tributors at the Lady Hampden, had a miraculoas escape while engaged working, on Tuesday, through several tons of…

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Painful Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 20 September 1905 · page 2

MR. DAVID TAYLOR, of West Wyalong, who is sinking a tank on Wyalong No. 1 Station, met with a painful accident last week. While driving…

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Fatality Among Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 7

A FLOCK of travelling sheep (fat crossbreds) passed through Cargo last week and camped near the town. The next morning 17 of them were dead on the…

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The Pea Rifle Again. Shocking Fatality

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 13

ON Sunday afternoon a young man named J. M. P. Rogers left his home (near Orange), at about 3.30 to go out shooting rabbits with appea rifle, and…

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Burning Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 8

MR. JAMES COOMBER met with a painful accident at Balderodgery last week. He was walking across a paddock which had recently been burnt off, and…

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A Peculiar Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 9

EDWARD HINKS, a young man, while felling a tree at Frenhill, Mulgoa, was knocked down by the tree, which gave way sooner than he expected. The…

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Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 October 1905 · page 9

Mrs Seeman, of Milby, had the misfortune to meet with a serious accident on Monday last, that necessitated her removal to the Hospital,…

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Driving Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 10

WHILE returning from Dubbo to Tomingley on Wednesday of last week, Mr. and Mrs. Crowhurst met with a nasty accident, while driving over the…

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Burning Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 8

On Sunday morning last, between 11 and 12 o'clock, neighbors were greatly alarmed on hearing screams proceeding from Mrs. John Dean's residence…

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Fatal Riding Accident

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 3

As we were going to press the local police were notified that James Scott, of Old Bangaroo had yesterday afternoon been thrown from his horse and killed…

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Fatality in Stock

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 2

Some time ago the "Advocate" pointed out the danger of losing large stock used for breeding purposes. Several have reported such…

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Triple Drowning Fatality

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 2

A triple drowning fatality occurred in the Little Murray River at Swanhill, on Tuesday last, Fred. Barslow, aged 36, and two sons of Mr. N. B…

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Bogan Gate. A Chapter of Accidents

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 17

QUITE a chapter of accidents has occured at Bogan Gate recently. A youth named Walter Long was pulled over by a calf and had his collar bone…

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Accidents

Western Champion · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 13

Mrs P Carroll, of Billabong Creek, was the victim of a painful accident on Saturday last. Whilst driving down the hill in Brown street, near the…

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Accident at a Funeral

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 7

SAYS a wire from Adelong dated Thursday:—While the funeral of Mr. Albert Richardson's daughter was coming from Billapalp to Adelong, the…

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Accident

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 2

A painful accident happened early in the week to a five-year-old son of Mr. Jno. Coghlan, resulting in the loss of a [?] to the [?] yellow. He and…

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Lightning Fatality

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 2

One day last week a gang of six men were engaged in clearing a paddock near Cowra when a thunderstorm…

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