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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

162 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 9

Resuscitating the Apparently Drowned

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 2

The following is recommended by Pr. Brodnax as an excellent method in resuscitating the apparently drowned: Open the mouth and take…

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Train on Fire. Many Killed and Injured. SYDNEY

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 2

A Vienna message received in Amsterdam says that a passenger trail, at Tambor, Galicia, caught fire while travelling full speed ahead. The…

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Accidents

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 4

A short time ago Mr Maurice Morgan was thrown from a sulky, spraining his back badly. As a result of the busy time Mr Morgan neglected…

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Holiday Accidents

Forbes Times · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 4

During the Xmas holidays Mr Will Turner, son of Mr. T. A. Turner, of Grawlin, had his foot badly crushed while engaged in harvesting work…

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Peculiar Fatality

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 2

A Bendigo message says:—William Leslie Childs (4) was killed in a curious manner at Avonmore station, on the Echuca line, 'When…

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Collision at the Central. Paper Train Damaged. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 2

As the result of a collision at the Central Railway Station early this morning, between a number of railway carriages, a train, timed to leave…

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Bathing Fatality. Two Sisters Drowned. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 4

Two sisters named Williams were drowned while bathing in the Goulburn River at Seymour, Victoria…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2

The little five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wood had a very narrow escape from drowning on Saturday last It appears that after the…

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Shocking Peak Hill Fatality

Forbes Times · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2

A terrible accident occurred at Peak Hill on Tuesday, at about one o'clock, by which young Jack Hutchins, a lad, of about 16 years, son of…

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Shocking Fatality

Western Champion · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 26

A. terrible accident occurred on Tuesday at about 1 o'clock (says the Peak [?]ll Express"), by which young Jack H[?]tchin a lad of about 16…

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Three Lives Lost. Drowned While Bathing. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

Two boys named Robert Gould and Clifford Grahame were drowned while bathing in Cook's River yesterday. Another lad, named Gordon…

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Short Story Published by Special Arrangement. Lady Christie's Christm[?] An Accident and its Sequel. I

Forbes Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 7

"Cissy, Cissy, do come and look! It's so frightfullly exciting! There's a big carriage trying to get up the hill through the snow—and it can't!…

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A Gowra Lady Injured During a Storm at Bathurst

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

A message from Bathurst states that during the severe storm this week, lightning struck the chimney of a villa known as the Old Manse,…

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The War Italian Areial Activity. Railway Accident. Latest From Perograd. Strikes in Austria. Sydney, Monday 8.12 a.m

Western Champion · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 29

A British-Italian official message says that flying has been possible for only two days last week. We destroyed sir aeroplanes and lost…

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Shocking Driving Fatality

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

Our Goolagong correspondent sends details of a shocking accident, attended by fatal results, which occurred at Goolagong on Saturday last…

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A Goolagong Fatality. Man Breaks His Neck

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

As the result of being thrown from a sulky on the Goolagong-Eugowra road, near Mellidays, on Saturday evening, a man named James Nolan,…

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Painful Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

Mr Harry ("Boob") Harmer, while harnessing his team of horses on Saturday, the 20th, had a painful accident. He stooped to pick up his…

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A Sad Fatal Accident

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 2

WE regret to record the sad occurrence (set forth in the evidence given below) whereby Patrick, aged fifteen, son of Mr Thomas Malloy, of Myrtle Vale,…

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A Goolagong Fatality. Man Break's His Neck

Forbes Times · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 4

As the result of being thrown from a sulky on the Goolagong-Eugowra road, near Mclliday's, on Saturday evening (says the Canowindra 'Star')…

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GOOLAGONG. (From Our Own Correspondent). Shocking Driving Fatality

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 1

A shocking accident, attended by fatal results, occurred here on Saturday last. James Nolan, a stranger to the district, and a well-known…

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