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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

65 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 4

An Extraordinary Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 2

An extraordinary accident happened to Mr James McClymont ju[?] of Coilsfield near O ange on Monday. Having occasion to oil an…

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Serious Accident

Western Champion · Friday 6 May 1910 · page 17

A very serious and unfortunate acci dent happened on Wednesday evening (says the Peak Hill "Express") to Mr Jack Tuck, a brother of Mrs R…

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Burning Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 14 May 1910 · page 2

A painful accident happened to a little daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Sharman on Thursday morning The little girl was standing in front…

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Fatal Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 21 May 1910 · page 2

A fatal accident happened to a man named Charles Drury, on [?] Tuesday evening last. Drury, with two others, was driving from…

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Curious Accident on Popular Line

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 27 May 1910 · page 6

"In a closely-packed carriage of the Dover line the lamp overhead, which had just been lit, fell, among other things, upon the face of a beautiful…

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Curious Accident on Popular Line

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 6

"In a closely-packed carriage of the Dover, line the lamp overhead, which had just been lit, fell, among other things, upon the face, of a beautiful…

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A Strange Duel. Police Chief Injured

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 June 1910 · page 3

Captain Queipo, a cavalry officer, has just spent a month's imprisonment in a fortress owing to the role he played in connection with the manifestations…

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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 2 July 1910 · page 5

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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Accident

Western Champion · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 17

On Wednesday, 28th u1, Mr A J Harrod, while engaged in cutting wood, received a very painful gash in the upper lip through a stick flying…

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THE Western Champion and Parkes and Forbes Representative Friday, July 8, 1910. Accident to Mr C. Childs

Western Champion · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 13

Mr Chris, Childs, telegraph line repairer, met with an unpleasant accident on the Alectown road on Tuesday last. Owing to a breakage in the…

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Serious Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 5

A very painful accident happened to Mr Reg. Jones, only son of Mr Phillip Jones of Oadow, on Saturday evening last. From tin little [?]…

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Flood of Whisky. Ten People Injured, One Killed. Carts Caught in Deluge

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 3

The Loch Katrine Distillery, on the south side of Glasgow, was the scene of an extraordinary accident last month (as already briefly recorded in a "Herald "…

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Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 2
Also in The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser

We regret to report a rather serious accident to Mrs Wilson, wile of Councillor S. Wilson of Lake Cowal, which occurred on Saturday…

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Railway Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 4

Windser-Melbourne express collided with the Brighton train at Richmond this morning, telescoping three cars, and piling up a heap of wreckage on…

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Railway Accident Terrible Loss of Life. Sydney

Western Champion · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 16

A disastrous railway accident took place yesterday morning at Richmond station, near Melbourne. A train from Brighton to Melbourne…

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Accidents

Western Champion · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 13

Roy Edwards, a lad aged 13, son of Mr T H Edwards, of Milpose, met with a very serious accident on F[?]iday last. While driving a horse and…

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Found Drowned a London Mystery

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 4

On 13th March a young public-house manager named, Leonard Saught, left his lodgings at Battersea, to meet a young woman to whom he was engaged…

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Found Drowned a London Mystery

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 6

On 13th March a young public-house manager, named, Leonard Saught, left his lodgings at Battersea to' meet a young woman to whom be was engaged…

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Ran From Drowning Girl. Young Cowards Censured

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 3

What the Willenhall (Staffordshire) coroner described as the most outrageous act of cowardice he had ever heard of was described on Monday…

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