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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

253 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 13

Trundle Sad Fatality

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 7

A very sad fatality occurred at Trundle on Friday afternoon last. Edward Berryman and Sonny Wright went out after rabbits in the…

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Rail Smash Ten People Injured Trains Collide

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 2

Melbourne, Thursday.—Nine passengeis and a driver were injured when two engines crashed head on near Drouin railway station last…

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Struck by Falling Tree Mr. Gunson Injured

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 2

Whilst engaged in clearing land on the property owned until recently by Mr. W. H. Marshman, close to West Wyalong, Mr. George Gunson met…

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Dorrigo Victim One of Six Sons Who Met Death by Drowning (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 1

Albert Stillway, aged 40, is a brother of the same family of six sons who met their death by drowning as the result of shipwreck…

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Car Over Bridge Plunges into Bed of Creek Five Injured

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 7

Travelling at a high speed, a car driven by Mr. Arthur Thorne, who had with him as passengers, Mr. Stanley Corby, Mr. Arthur McPhee,…

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Dangerous Hole On Ungarie Road Accident to Motorists

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 1

Motorists complain about the existence on the West Wyalong Ungarie Road, in close proximity to where the deviation from Spy Hill joins with…

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Sir Neville Howse In Car Accident (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 1

Sir Neville Howse was in a car accident yesterday on the Prince's Highway, but nobody was hurt…

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FELL 30 FEET Laborer Seriously Injured (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 20 April 1926 · page 1

Harry Keeting, aged 37, a laborer of Kensington, fell thirty feet to a floor at David Jones new building in Elizabeth Street this morning…

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Latest Telegraphic Accidental Death. Mr. W. R. FITZSIMONS, M.L.A. SYDNEY

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1926 · page 2

Patrick Ryan, driver of the motor car which is alleged to have caused the death of Mr. W. R. Fitzsimons, M.L.A. was the principal witness at…

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Five Injured Cars in Collision

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 5

Five were injured in a head on motor collision, which occurred in Rocket Street, Bathurst late on Monday afternoon…

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Car and Cycle Collide Young Lady Injured

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 4

Miss Louisa Bell, daughter of Mrs. Joseph Bell of Central Wyalong, was riding a bicycle in the direction of West Wyalong yesterday evening, and…

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Four Fingers Off Serious Accident at Sawmill

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 1

Mr. Bert Yabsley, who is employed as benchman at Messrs McFadzean and Robertson's sawmill near Weja, met with a serious accident on…

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Accident to Western Jockey

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 2

C. Rooke, the W.D.R.A, horseman, who is well-known to Western racegoers, is at present an inmate of St. Vincent's Hospital, suffering from…

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The Mulyan Fire Coroner Finds Was Caused Accidentally

Cowra Free Press · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 9

The inquiry into the cause of the recent fire at Mulyan, opened on Friday last, was concluded to-day before Mr. Westphalen (Coroner)…

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Shocking Fatality Fettler Cut to Pieces

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 27 April 1926 · page 3

A railway accident occurred at Parkes on Saturday afternoon last, resulting in the death of Edward Rothery Lee, aged about 30, a railway…

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Railway Fatality at Parkes Station. Body Shockingly Mangled

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 28 April 1926 · page 4

A shocking fatality occurred on the Parkes railway station on Saturday afternoon, the victim being Francis. Rothery Lee, 30, employed by the…

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Railway Fatality. Man Killed at Parkes Station

Western Champion · Thursday 29 April 1926 · page 11

A shocking accident occurred at the Parkes railway station about 4.30 on Saturday afternoon, resulting in the death of a fettler named…

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Railway Fatality at Parkes Station Body Shockingly Mangled

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 April 1926 · page 9

A shocking fatality occurred on the Parkes railway station on Saturday afternoon, the victim being Francis Rothery Lee, 30, employed by the…

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Nine Killed Many Injured Level Crossing Smash

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 30 April 1926 · page 1

The worst of many recent level crossing railway disasters occurred shortly after six o'clock on Monday night, on the Ferntree Gully line,…

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Motto Cards Wee Accidents That Can Happen

Cowra Free Press · Friday 30 April 1926 · page 4

Some people hang portraits up; lawyers frame their Supreme Court “admissions;” schoolmasters, their degree certificates…

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