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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

134 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 5 of 7

Sad Fatality After Wedding Festivities

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 5

A man named Milson and his wife were killed at Wairarapa, N.Z. by the overturning of their vehicle while returning from wedding festivities,…

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Struck by Lightning Sad Fatality at Geeron

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 7

A sad fatality occurred at Geeron when Norman E. Day, aged 19, son of Mr and Mrs H. H. Day, of Forbes, lost his life. For some time past…

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Railway Disaster Smash at Hurstville Four Killed—15 Injured

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 9

As a result of a collision at Hurstville on Tuesday night, four persons were killed and 15 injured. The following official statement was…

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Burning Fatality at CARCOAR

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 August 1920 · page 5

William Morrow, aged 60, was burn ed to death at Carcoar in a house which was demolished…

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Fatality at Ungarie Thrown From a Sulky

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 13 August 1920 · page 5

A sad fatality occurred at Ungarie on Wednesday night, Mr. John Conway, a farmer residing near Ungarie, was proceeding to his home in a sulky…

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Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 August 1920 · page 7

While Mrs J. Webb and her daughter were driving along Lachlan Street late on Tuesday afternoon, the back-band broke, and the sulky tipped up. The…

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Burning Accident at Bumbaldry

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 14 August 1920 · page 2

A burning accident of a rather serious nature accurtel at Bumbaldry. It appears that Doris Buckman, a girl of 16 years, was combing her hair near…

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Struck by Motor Car Serious Accident at Parkes

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 6

Ronnie Henderson, aged nine years, was very severely injured during the height of the traffic from the Parkes racecourse yesterday afternoon…

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Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 3

A painful accident occurred to Mrs Lionel Bloomfield on Wednesday last. As she was leaving the Diggers' ball she slipped on the steps of the hall…

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Peculiar Accident

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 25 August 1920 · page 2

On Sunday last whilst Mr. and Mrs S. Brown were out motoring, the latter became faint, and fell from the seat behind her husband and was…

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Serious Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 26 August 1920 · page 13

A serious accident occurred last Thursday afternoon in lower Clarinda street (Molong road) the victim being a boy named Ronnie Henderson, nine…

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Knocked Down by Car Lorna Cowell Injured

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 August 1920 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon between two and three o'clock, when the traffic to the show ground was at its height, a young child named Lorna…

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Show Accidents Fall in Pony Jumps

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 August 1920 · page 6

The Forbes show this week was not altogether free from accident. In the pony jumps yesterday morning Victor McIlvenna received an…

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Explosives in Firewood Boy Seriously Injured

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 31 August 1920 · page 4

A violent explosion occurred in the dining room at the residence of George Cowley, of North Armidale. A piece of wood had been bored out…

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Shocking Motor Accident Boy Impaled on Shaft

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 31 August 1920 · page 4

George Leslie Brown, was riding on the footboard of a motor car on Armidale Road, near Glen Iness when the car crashed against a sulky, the…

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Young Man's Eye Badly Injured

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 1 September 1920 · page 2

As Mr. Patrick Flood, of the Railway Dept., was riding down Liverpool street on a motor-cycle on Saturday he was hit in the left eye by a stone…

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Passenger Drowned From Manly Steamer

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 4

A passenger fell or jumped off a Manly steamer last night near Pinchgut. Every effort to save him failed…

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Sulky Accident

Western Champion · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 13

Master Albert Davey was driving a sulky containing his mother (Mrs. "W. G. Davey) her infant child, and Miss Reece, down Court street on…

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Obstacles on Railway Line Accident Averted

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 4

The driver of a goods train approaching Leura on Sunday night felt the engine bump over ail obstacle. He informed the night officer, who…

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Accident to Steamer

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 4

A heavily-laden Japanese ' steamer going from Newcastle yesterday foul ed the anchor.of a sailing ship. The anchor penetrated the ballast…

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