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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Found Drowned

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 2

Tho body of a man, believed to be that of William Perry, aged 25, a butcher, who disappeared from tho rocks at Coogee last Thursday while fishing…

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Accident at Warwick

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 4

Five-o'clock Friday morning Master "Pat" Fagan was giving the racehorse "M.J.G." a smart gallop over three furlongs, on Warwick course,…

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Nearly Drowned

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 2

Mr. Sellick had a narrow escape from drowning on Tuesday last and ha nearly lost a valuable cart horse as well. He was working at Gangat…

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American Football. 14 Dead; 175 Injured

The Northern Champion · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 7

The American football season, now closing, has been a record one so far as the casualty list is concerned. There is total death toll of 14, while 175…

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Later Particulars the Death Roll. Fourteen Killed Twenty Injured

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1914 · page 2

The railway accident at Exeter proves to be the most terrible accident over recorded in the annals of the New South Wales railways. Latest…

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Railway Smash. Temora Mail Wrecked. 14 Killed and many Injured. the Signal and the Fog. Distressing Soenes. Wounded Among the Wreckage

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 18 March 1914 · page 3

A railway disaster at Exeter, on the main Southern line, six miles from Moss Vale, occurred about twenty mintues before midnight on Friday, and…

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Fearful Railway Accident. on Southern Line

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1914 · page 2

A railway disaster resulting in loss of life and injury to several passengers occurred shortly before midnight on Friday at Exeter, a station on the…

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Disastrous Railway Smash. 14 Killed, Many Injured. Sydney

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 March 1914 · page 4

A disastrous railway accident occurred at Exeter on the main Southern line, six miles from Moss Vale, about twenty minutes before midnight…

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Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 March 1914 · page 4

Mr. William White who is in charge of a gang of workmen employed on the North Bank road, Taylor's Arm, met with a nasty accident on Monday…

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Latf Collision "At Exeter. Sydney, Thursday. Evidence of Officer

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 21 March 1914 · page 6

An inquest concerning the Exeter disaster was resumed. Alexander Callen night officer deposed, at night of the collision he set signals for…

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Bomb in the Post. Explodes in Victorian Lands Office. Three Officials Injured. Mysterious Affair

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 21 March 1914 · page 9

The Lanos Department in Melbourne was the scene of a sensational incident or. Monday morning last, a bomb in a parcel which had! arrived from…

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Railway Disaster. on the Southern Line. Goods Train and Mail Collide. Goods Train and Mail Collide 14 Persons Killed. Many Others Seriously Injured

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1914 · page 4

FULL details of the terrible railway disaster at Exeter, a small station on the southern line (particulars of which were wired to us on Saturday and posted up in town), show that it was one of the…

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Big Smash in Rosehill Cup. Eight Horses Fall. Jockey W. H Smith Seriously Injured

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 2

One of those big smashes which occurr at long intervals on racecourses was associated with Rosehid Cup, a stake of the value of £1000…

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Town Topics. Gun Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 March 1914 · page 4

Mr. Algeo, who has been dairying on Mr. G. H. Hodgson's property at Duleonghi, was out duck shooting Tuesday afternoon when, by some…

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Scorpion Sting Fatality

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 2

The dentil at the end of last week of a little boy eighteen months old the son or Mr. and Mrs. Jas Tickle of Allora, was surrounded by sad…

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Nearly an Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 5

Scotchmen proverbially hold on to whatever is in hand, and Messrs. Scott, and Son of the Forth-street engineering shop fully acted up to…

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Fatal Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon, about two, Mr. M. Perry, of West Kempsey, and his son Percy, were in the bush about 7 miles back from Tamban bridge…

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The Case of Lady Broadstone Published by Special Arrangement [Copyright.] Chapter X.—the Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 7

This answer suited him, and he laughed in response. "You trust me for that" he chickled. "No indeed I would't I've got…

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Serious Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 2

Ernie Barber, a young man, had a ribs broken while riding at Quipolly. The accident was caused through the girth breaking Barber was brought…

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The Case of Lady Broadstone. Published by Special Arrangement [Copyright.] Chapter Xl.—accident or Murder? (Continued)

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 7

"He had fastened the main sheet to his wrist," Dorrison stammered, his teeth chattering between his livid lips, from the chill which set his…

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