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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

195 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 10

Accident at Bindogundra

Western Champion · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 19

Whilst Mrs. J. J. Hall, of Bindogundra, accompanied by her children, was driving homewards from Mr. M. J. Hall's on Sunday afternoon the…

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Hanged by Accident

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 10

Accidental death was the verdict returned at an inquest at Tipton, Staffordshire, recently on Thomas Shake, who came by his end in remarkable fashion. He was found hanging to the latch of his door, and…

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A Surf Fatality Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1914 · page 3

A man named Neate lost his life while swimming in the breakers at Coledale. It is believed he was taken by a shark…

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Awful Railway Disaster Fourteen Killed. Nineteen Injured

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1914 · page 3

The mail train to Temora, which left Sydney at 8.10 o'clock Friday night, crashed into the engine of a goods train bound to Sydney from Junee,…

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Our Telegrams. Friday's Railway Accident. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 17 March 1914 · page 2

No further fatalities have been recorded as a result of the Exetet disaster. Mr. Ainsworth, of West Wyalong…

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Dreadful Railway Disaster. Worst Accident in New South Wales. Deaths Total Fourteen

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1914 · page 2

No more terrible accident than that which occurred at Exeter shortly hefore midnight on Friday has ever darkened the history of the…

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Injured

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 18 March 1914 · page 2

ARTHUR HEAVER, fractured arm and ribs, and severe shock. PETER CASSIMATIS, injuries to the head…

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Railway Smash. Temora Mail Wrecked Dead and Wounded Among the Wreckage Fourteen Killed and Many Injured. Collision with Cattle Train. Distressing Scenes. (From the Sydney "Daily Telegraph."

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 18 March 1914 · page 2

The railway disaster at Exeter, on the main Southern line, 6 miles from Moss Vale, occurred about 20 minutes before midnight on…

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Accident at White City. Young Man Breaks^Two Ribs

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 18 March 1914 · page 2

A joy ride at the White City cm Friday night last terminated with a young man, lit nest Jones, being removed to the Sydney Hospital…

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Terrible Railway Smash. 14 KILLED, 18 Injured. Sydney

Western Champion · Thursday 19 March 1914 · page 5

A terrible railway disaster occurred at midnight at Exeter, near Moss Vale, when the Temora train crashed into a stationary goods train. The…

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After the Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 19 March 1914 · page 5

The collision necessitated the transhipment of mails. The main line was cleared at 7.30 a.m. The injured and the dead were…

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Sad Burning Fatality

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 21 March 1914 · page 4

Mrs. Morrow, wife of Mr. Ernest Morrow, chemist, of Ardlethan, died at that place on Saturday afternoon under distressing…

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The Late Railway Accident

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 21 March 1914 · page 2

At the Methodist Church on Sunday evening reference will be made to the late railway accident in which so many lives were lost. Rev. Howard Fleming, B.A.,…

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Fifty Drowned. Torpedo Boat and Steamer Collide. Rome in Mourning

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 2

ROME, Friday.—A torpedo boat, which was travelling at a high rate of speed, collided with a launch on the Grand Canal, Venice, and fifty…

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Superintendent of Railways Injured. Found on Southern Line

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 2

Superintendent Meiklejorn, of the Railway Department, was found lying unconscious near the line at Cullerin on Saturday morning. He…

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Accident at Races. "Olive Green" Killed

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 2

While running at the Rosehill Cup on Saturday, Gracelle fell near the half-mile post, and Aurofodina, Limelight, Olive Green, North…

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Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 3

MR JAS. PARKER met with a serious and painful accident on Monday afternoon last. He was driving his horse and dray out into the bush…

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Fatal Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 26 March 1914 · page 29

As an awful sequel to Cumnock annual show on Wednesday last (says Saturday's Molong "Express") an appalling fatal accident happened at…

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Accident

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 27 March 1914 · page 8

Master George Rice, the 13 year old son of Mr F. Rice, of "Carlane," Long's Corner Road, met with a nasty accident last week…

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Thrown From a Horse. Fatality at Ariah Park

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 5

At Ariah Park on Sunday last a young immigrant named J. Carden (21); working fur Mr. W. G. Harris, went to visit a friend named…

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