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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Burning Fatality. Melbourne

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 20 April 1914 · page 2

The Royal Hotel. Meredito, Victoria, has been burnt do va, and the cook employed! there was burned to death…

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The Cooma Train. Serious Accident Averted by the Westinghouse Brake. Goulburn

The Bombala Times · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 4

Early this morning a railway accident occurred at Joppa Junction, four miles from here, where the Cooma line connects with the main southern line,…

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Clyde Smashes. Accidents Almost Daily. Employees Frightened and Discontented

The Bombala Times · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 3

There have been more accidents at the Clyde shunting yards this month than for years past. The collisions, derailments, and other accidents…

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Terrible Mining Accident. Melbourne, Monday. Seven Men Killed

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 May 1914 · page 2

A terrible mining disaster occurred on Saturday night at the Great Extended Hustlers mine, Bendigo…

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Another Collision. Melbourne Express. Goulburn

The Bombala Times · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 2

Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning the Melbourne limited express from Sydney collided with a stationary goods train, which was waiting…

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Accident Near Orange. Infant's Head Crushed

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 2

Mr. W. R. Gla[?], owner of Brigalow Station, and a well-known New South Wales motorist, had the [?]fortune to run…

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MELBOURNE, Friday. Motor-car Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 2

Mr. Elliott Shannon, member for Geelong, shipping and stock merchant, who was only recently married, was motoring…

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Alexandria Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 2

Henry Webber who was found shot [?] a house at Alexandria, died yesterday. The woman, Charlotte Heathy, is in a critical…

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Motor Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 2

The names of the man and woman killed by a motor car accident on the Parramatta Road are George Adams, carter, and…

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Collision of Steamships. BRISBANE

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 2

A collision occurred in the Brisbane River last night between the steamer kanowna and the steamer Mount Kembla…

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Goods Trains Collide. Two Guards Injured. Sydney

The Bombala Times · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 3

A goods train coming up from the south at half-past four this morning crashed into a goods train, which had got in from the west and was standing…

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Car and Motor Cycle Collision

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 15 June 1914 · page 2

Mr. Alfred Pratt, 52, mounted a motor cycle with a side car attached, taking his daughter for a span at Hawthorne…

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General Cables. (Per Independent Cable Service to "The Manaro Mercury.") LONDON, Monday. Steamship Collision

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 15 June 1914 · page 2

During a sense log at sea the Humburg-America liner Pretoria collided with the American steamer "New-York," and pieroed a…

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Fatal Motor Collision. Melbourne

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1914 · page 2

Two motors collided at Caulfield yesterday by which Mrs. Louisa Rendall, wife of the principal of Hayleybury College…

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Accidents at Work. Zam-Buk Heals Perfectly

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1914 · page 2

Carpenters, station hands, farmers, shearers, mechanics, timber cutters, miners, painters, labourers—in fact, all classes of…

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Accidental Inventions. Origin of the Bayonet, the Lamp Chimney, the Telescopic, and the Art of Lithography

Delegate Argus · Thursday 16 July 1914 · page 5

The bayonet is said to have derived its name from the fact that it was first made at Bayonue, and its origin illustraten the proverb…

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Burning Fatality

Delegate Argus · Thursday 30 July 1914 · page 2

There was a very sad occurrence at Craigie on Monday afternoon, when Etheline Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Roberts, junr…

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Accident to M. Guillaux Aeroplane's Thrilling Dive to Earth. Frenchman Badly Injured. Sydney

The Bombala Times · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 3

Exactly on the tick of a quarter-past 3—the advertised time for the first ascent—M. Guillaux stepped up into his famous little monoplane…

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Jeering Drowning Men[?]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1914 · page 2

Another states:—After the cruisers sank some submarines came to the surface, and their crews jeered the drowning men…

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German Regiments Drowned

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 6 October 1914 · page 2

It is reported from Rome that whole regiments of Germans were drowned while retreating before the Russians…

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