Serious Motor smash. Mr. (Chief Engineer) Percy Allan Injured
Accompanied by Mr. Montague Smith, Government Works Officer up top Mr. Percy Allan, Chief Supervising Engineer of National Works,…
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Revolver Accident
On Sunday last Mr. A. L. Smith was engaged in cleaning a revolver at his home at Smith's Creek when the weapon, which he did not know was loaded,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at Football Match
On Wednesday afternoon Mr. V. G. Cummings, of the West Kempsey District School, sustained a rather severe contused wound over the loft eye,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident with Brush Hook
Last week Mr. John Frawley, a stranger in the district, was engaged in doing some scrub clearing for Mr. Jopling in West. Kempsey, when he slipped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hospital Ship Torpedoed 14 Australians Drowned
The British hospital ship Warialda, 7712 tons, was torpedoed in the English Channel on Saturday while bound for England. There were 800 on board, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident
Mr. Arthur Pacey, of Kempsey, accompanied by his wife, her mother (Mrs. Heath) and Miss Nellie Wilson, was driving in his motor car on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Accident
Sunday last when motoring down river and on the twist to Barnett's bridge, Mr. Walter Secomb espied an approaching car the other side…
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Mr. Lewis Ellis, of Kemp-street, Kompsey, was loading sleepers at the sleeper depot about 12 miles along the Kempsey to Macksville section of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at Smithtown
This morning Mrs. James Clancy and her two daughters were driving to Church at Smithtown, when the horse took fright as they reached the Post…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Peculiar Accident
On Friday last about 7.30 p.m., as Rev. A. E. Putland was going to Wauchope per motor cycle, he received a heavy fall in an unusual way. When nearly five miles out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Street Accident. SYDNEY
A laborer named F. Cromack was driving a sulky along Pyrmont road, when he collided with a lorry. The sulky was overturned and Cromack…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Man Drowned
On Monday night Mr. G. B. Morris, J P., deputy coroner, was officially informed that a man had been drowned in the main channel of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Accident
Friday last, Mr. P. F. Smythe, of Yarravel, drew 110 cubic feet of girders with his five horse team from Sherwood to Greenhill; and alongside…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured at Play
On Tuesday evening a little child named Minnie Galvin, daughter of Mr. Maurice Galvin, of Belgrave, fell whilst playing and sustained a greenstick…
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Miss Laura Miles, daughter of Mr. Thomas Miles, of Fredcriekton, was endeavoring to get it cork out of a bottle with a pair of scissors at South West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cycle Accident
On Thursday last Mr. Hans Anderson, of Hickey's Creek, was riding to Kempsey on a bicycle when a gust of wind blew his lint off, and in grabbing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Chapter of Accidents
WHILE at work with Mi saw-mill plant at Tacking Point, Mr. J. B. Smith had the misfortune to set his left hand in contact with the revolving saw, with the result…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nasty Accident
Monday morning when Mr. J. L. Partrim, of the Kempsey, Electric Light Company, went to the island below Central Kempsey to attend to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peculiar Accident
Mr. J. L. Bartrim, lineman, of the Kempsey Electric Light Co., went over to the island just below Kempsey on Monday morning to look after the…
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Mr. Arthur Ford, who has been falling brush on the property of Mr. J. H. Yarnold, at Mooral Creek, met with a rather serious accident on…
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