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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Burning Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1914 · page 2

A house was destroyed by fire at Valley Heights, near Spring-wood. Mrs. Martin Monoghan and four children, who were…

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Surf Bathers Drowned. Melbourne

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1914 · page 2

While surfing at Black Beach Point. Lonsdale, yesterday, Muriel Hunter, 23, and William Seabrook, 32, got into difficulties…

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MELBOURNE, Friday. the Recent Motor Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 2

In connection with the motor fatality on Sydney Road last month, when Gordon March was knocked off a bicycle and killed,…

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Motoring Accident Death of a Youth

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1914 · page 2

The Melbourne "Argus" reports that on Thursday last frederick Dudley Weedon Oatley, of Umeralla Station, Cooma,…

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Shocking Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1914 · page 2

A shocking railway accident occurred near Murton on Saturday night. Harry Ferry, a railway ganger, which his wife and…

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Years Street Accidents

Delegate Argus · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 5

A White Paper issued by the Home Office shows that during last year there were 1,151 fatal and [?] non-fatal accidents due to [?] traffic in the…

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Motor Boat Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1914 · page 2

A motor boat containing seven men struck a rock on the Bremer River, near Ipswich, causing Joe Green and Richard Evans to fall…

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Train Accident

Delegate Argus · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 2

Whilst a train with [?] pers attached was ascending steep gradient from [?] Wentworth Falls [?]…

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Boating Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 2

William Gibbs, Alexander Soutar, and Freeman were fishing in a boat near Botany Heads, when a sudden squall capsized…

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Disastrous Collision in a Fog Forty-nine Lives Lost

The Bombala Times · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 4

During a dense fog off the coast of Virginia, U.S.A., on Saturday, two steamers collided near to the Winter Quarter lightship, and in ten minutes…

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Terrible Accident

Delegate Argus · Thursday 12 February 1914 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Alice Morris (10), who resided in Seotclimer-street, North Fitzroy, was returning from a Sunday School…

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The Commybrook Fatality. Court Proceedings

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 2

The trial of Frederick Duilley Weedon Oatley, station owner, of Cooma, N.S.W. on a charge of manslaughter, arising from a…

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The Dommybrook Fatality. Conclusion Of CASE

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 February 1914 · page 2

At the conclusion of counsels addresses at the Court of General Sessnons on Wednesday. before Judge Eagleson in the case…

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Fatal Accident at Cunninghame. Married Man Killed

Delegate Argus · Thursday 19 February 1914 · page 3

A shocking accident occurred at the Lakes Entrance works on Monday morning of last week reports the Bairnsdale Advertiser. A…

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Surfing Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 February 1914 · page 2

While surfing at Wellington, J. Galloway, aged 34, physical instructor of the Education Department, and Cyril Soar, aged…

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Year's Street Accidents

Delegate Argus · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 3

A White Paper issued by the Home Office shows that during last year there were 1,151 fruits and 26[?] non-fatal accidents due to vehicular traffic in the…

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Two Boys Drowned. Hobart

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 2

Six boys got into a dinghy, without oars, on the Derwent River, and started to drift from the shore…

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Fatality at Bungarby. Child Burned to Death

The Bombala Times · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 1

At about 7 o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out at Banda, Bungarby, in a house occupied by Mr. Thomas Murdock and family…

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Train Collision

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 March 1914 · page 2

A collision occurred between two trains near Adelaide on Saturday night. One car was derailed, and there passengers were…

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Number of Injured

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 March 1914 · page 2

Twenty-four persons are injured, five seriously. All except the letter, are able to proceed on their soorney or return to…

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