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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Serious Accident

Forbes Times · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 2

A serious accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon, about three miles from Barmedman on the Temora road. A car containing the driver, Mr. Jas…

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M. O'Halloran's Accident. Correction by the Manager

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 2

Mr. J. M. Ellis, Manager of the Carpathia Tin Mining Co., Ardlethan, writes:— Sir,—My attention has been…

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Eugowra Drowning Case

Western Champion · Thursday 10 August 1916 · page 19

A drowning fatality occurred in the Lachlan river, near Eugowra on Monday afternoon, when Albert (21) and Charles Herbert (20) only sons of Mr…

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The Drowning Fatality

Forbes Times · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 6

Quite a gloom was cast over Eugowra on Monday afternoon when the news of the drowning of Albert and Charles Herbert, as reported in your…

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Double Drowning Accident. at Eugowra. Two Herbert Boys Lose their Lives

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 2

A shocking double drowning fatality occurred in the Lachlan River near Eugowra on Monday last, when the only sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. C…

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Eugowra Fatality. Bodies Not Recovered

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 4

Our Eugowra correspondent forwards further particulars of the distressing drowning fatality. It appears that when the boat capsized…

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Children's Eyes. Injured by "The Pictures,"

Forbes Times · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 8

Kinema shows, it was stated at a meeting of the Bath Education Committee, were responsible for considerable expenditure on spectacles for the…

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Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 6

Councillor Noakes had a harrow escape from serious accident on Friday, whilst journeying to Forbes, to attend a meeting to celebrate the…

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Accident at Orange Gasworks

Forbes Times · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 4

An accident happened yesterday afternoon (says Thursday's Orange Advocate) at the gasworks shortly after 4 o'clock by which Messrs James…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Forbes Times · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 6

Monday was a day of accidents, as along the road between Eugowra and Canowindra four commercial travellers, in a motor car ran off the main road…

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Double Boating Fatality

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 2

There was a double boating fatality in the Lachlan River, near Eugowra, on Monday. Albert and Charles Herbert, sous of Mr. J. C. Herbert, Fairfield,…

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The Forbes Advocate Tuesday, August 15, 1916. Current Topics. Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1916 · page 2

Mr S. J. Mathias met with a painful accident on Thursday afternoon. He was leading a horse attached to a cart, when the animal became…

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Children's Eyes. Injured by " the Pictures;"

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 16 August 1916 · page 10

Hinema Allows, it was stated, at a meeting of the Bath Education Committee, were responsible for considerable expenditure on spectacles for the…

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Burning Accident. Motor Car Ablaze

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 16 August 1916 · page 2

Whilst engaged in cleaning Mr. C. E. Wallder's motor car, at Edwards and Co's garage on Friday afternoon, Mr Phil Smith met with…

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Drowning Fatality

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 August 1916 · page 6

No trace has yet been discovered of the bodies of the victims of the recent drowning fatality in the Lachlan. Mr C. J. Larigford found…

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Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 23 August 1916 · page 2

Harold Bolte, a young son of Mr and Mrs P. Bolte, of West Wyalong, met with a rather serious accident on Friday last. A young…

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Automobile Accident Records

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 23 August 1916 · page 4

According, to the best statistics, the number of automobiles in the United States increased from 200,000 in 1909 to 1,750,000 at the end of 1914. The number of deaths…

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Fatal Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 24 August 1916 · page 15

Mr. Michael Fahey, of Bindogundra, was the victim of a fatal accident on Monday afternoon, his neck being broken by a fall from a horse whilst…

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Accident at a Funeral

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 26 August 1916 · page 2

What might easily have been a fatal accident occurred to some of the chief mourners at the funeral of the late Mrs. Philip on Monday last…

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Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 6

Mrs W. A. Tolmie was unfortunate during the week in being thrown from her sulky. It appears that she and two lady friends were out…

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