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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

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Another Drowning Fatality. "Billy" Patterson the Victim. a Popular Young Man's End

Forbes Times · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 3

The Forbes district has become motorious of late for the number of its drowning accidents, but none has been surrounded with a sadder set of…

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Two Girls Drowned

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

A telegram received at Forbes, yesterday contained the sad news that Nellie and May Connelly, aged 12 and 10 years respectively, had…

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A Sad Fatality. Drowned in Walla Walla Lagoon. Popular Forbes Resident Loses His Life

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

It was a very sad Christmas for Alderman and Mrs J. J. Patterson, of Farrand-street, Forbes. Early on Christmas Eve their son William,…

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Terrible Disaster in Queensland. Over One Hundred People Drowned. Fifty Bodies Recovered. Sydney

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

A late wire from Brisbane reports farther disastrous floods in Queensland. At Clermont three parts of the buildings in the main street have…

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A Nasty Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 15

Lance-Corporal E. War by, who is spending a few weeks on furlough in the district, was the victim of a nasty, accident at Limestone on Tuesday…

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The Wingham Drowning Fatality

Forbes Times · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

Further particulars are now available of the drowning of two ex-Forbes girls in Misses Nellie and May Connelly at Wingham on New Year's Day, as…

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The Condobolin Drowning Case

Forbes Times · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

Last week's Condobolin "Lachlander" says:—TThe body of F.Wiiboywas foundtind on Monday, about middby Wy Moseph Rawsthorne, of…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 3

Charles May, a chaufieur, has been arrested and remanded until the 12th inst. in connection with the motor accidet on Saturday, by which a little…

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Fatality at South Yalgogrin. Teamster Killed

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

Three teamsters, including Mr. Mark Morris, were carting wheat from South Yalgogrin to Ardlethan on Saturday last, the last…

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Railway Accident

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

London. — Eleven peopie were killed and 40 injured in a railway accident, when a crowded passenger train crashed into a light engine…

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Drowning Fatality at Condobolin. Former Forbes Resident. Condobolin

Forbes Times · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 4

Mr. Roland Wilfred Richards, of Urah, aged about 50 yours, was drowned in the Lachlan River yesterday, about 6 miles from Con[?]lin…

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Drowning Fatality. Mr R. W. Richards Loses His Life

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 4

A very sad drowning fatality occurred at the five mile, weir, near Condobolin, yesterday afternoon. It appears that at about 4 o'clock…

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Double Drowing Fatality. the Wingham Case

Forbes Times · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 2

Last week we reported the drowning at Wingham, on New Year's Day, of two young girls, Ellen and Alice May Connolly, daughters of Mr. Thomas…

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Painful Accidents

Forbes Times · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 3

On Monday evening, whilst Miss Tartie Laneyric, of the Club House Hotel, was pulling a cork from a large bottle of ale, the bottle exploded in…

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Sad Bathing Fatality. a Popular Boy Drowned

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon last another was added to the long list of drowning accidents for which the Lachlan has been responsible, when…

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Drowned in Swimming Baths. Two Married Women

Forbes Times · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 2

Two married women, Edith Myers and lveline Ellis, sisters, were found drowned in the Fairy Dells swimming bath at the rear of a big boarding…

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Glen Innes Motor Accident. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 2

While endeavouring to make room for a horseman to pass, a motor-car driven by Clarence Rudder went over the end of a culvert on the Glen Innes Road,…

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Sad Drowning Fatality Mr. R.w. Richards

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 6

Seldom has our community received such a shock as that given by the sudden news of the drowning of the- well-known "Doley" Richards at…

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Motor-tram Collision

Western Champion · Thursday 18 January 1917 · page 21

John Deaken, the driver of the motor car smashed by a tram at Double Bay, is still unconscious…

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Latest Telegrams. Fatal Accident. Sydney

Western Champion · Thursday 18 January 1917 · page 21

Albert Winkler, of Ulmarra, who was unseated from a shying horse during a motor accident on the Glen Innes-Grafton road, died yesterday…

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