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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Accident to a Miner

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 17

AN accident of a very serious nature happened to a miner named Eugene Foster at the Orange Plains copper mines, near Dandaloo. He was with…

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Accident at Grenfell

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 17

MISS MELLIE M'CUE, daughter of Mr. M'Cue, of Marsden-road, Grenfell, was shooting rabbits with a pea rifle, it is supposed that while she was…

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Local Accidents

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 9

ON Tuesday morning a little boy, aged, about eighteen months, son of Mr. Walter Garlick, fell down a wafer closet. The alarm was raided by the…

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Example of Germany. Effect of Compulsory Accident Insurance

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 6

Workmen's compensation in Germany forms a part of the vast system of State, insurance, and is inseparable from some other branches. Strictly accident insurance…

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The World in Danger. Collision with a Comet Looked For

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 13

PROFESSOR MATTEUCCI declares that at the end of March the substance of a comet, discovered by Marchetti, will come in contact with the atmosphere…

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Ice Tragedies. Two Families Drowned

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

While a number of boys were sliding on the ice of Basingstoke Canal at Frimley late in December the ice give way, and they fell in. Two of them, sons of…

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Workmen’s Mishaps. a Miner’s Injured [?] Restored by Zam-bik Balm

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 2

Busy workers in all departments of labor should make a point of always keeping a pot of Zam-Buk Balm handy in order to cope immediately with any mishap…

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Sad Drowning Fatality at Goolagong

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last our community (writes a Golloagong correspondent) was horrified to learn that Thos. Walsh, the fourth son of Mr. Maurice…

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Burned to Ashes. End of a Railway Train. Awful Collision in America

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 2

Another railway disaster, almost as terrible in its effects as that at Washington, thrilled all America on the 2nd January, and (says the "London…

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A Shooting Fatality

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 9

A TRAGEDY occurred at Marborougb, Q., on Sunday, whereby Arthur Nancarrow, aged 5 years, was accidentally shot dead by his brother Frederick…

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Mining Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 10

AT the Nymagee Copper Mine on the 3rd inst., two men named Williams and Croxford met with a serious accident. It appears these men with two…

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Fatal Accident

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 5

A well-known and popular resident of Mandurania. Mr James Evans, met with a fatal accident at the Blayney railway station on Wednesday night. When the…

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Fearful Railway Fatality at Blayney

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 5

As the second division of the mail from Orange drew in at the Blayney Station on Wednesday evening, the engine driver and his mate felt some obstruction on the…

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A Fearful Smash. American Railway Disaster. Excursion Train in Collision Sixty Lives Lost

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 3

The Washington correspondent of the London " Daily Telegraph" gives full particulars of a shocking railway accident, the subject of a cable…

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Railway Fatality. Man Cut in Halves

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 17

A TERRIBLE railway fatality occurred at Blayney at about half past ten on Wednesday night of last week. As the second division of the mail train was…

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Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 10

ON Monday last while on a trip to the river on a fishing excursion a party of Coradgery people had a somewhat sensational experience. The horse…

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Bomb in a Bank. Death for Refusing a Loan. Two Killed and 24 Injured. Scene of Devastation

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 5

The New York correspondent of the London " Daily Mail" gives furt[?] particulars of the shocking occurrence which was cabled at the time :-…

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Shocking Accident

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred to an elderly man named Charles Calloway, at Ritchie Bros’ works, Auburn, on Thursday. An American car was being hauled out of the…

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Railway Fatality. Ganger Bult Killed

Western Champion · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 13

At about five o'clock on Monday afternoon a sad fatality occurred on the Molong-Parkes railway line near Bumbury Siding, by which Ganger David…

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A Railway Fatality. Ganger Bult Killed

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 14

AT about 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon a sad railway fatality occurred on the Molong-Parkes railway line near Bumbury Siding, by which Ganger…

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