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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

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Coach Accident. Young Boy Killed Little Girl Injured. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 6

A five-year-old boy named Lang, residing with his parents at Lithgow, was killed in a coach accident yesterday. The coach was in charge…

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Motor Car Accident. At Widgiewa

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

When word was received in Urana on Friday that a serious motor car accident had occurred at Widgiewa it occasioned a good…

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Accident at Gullivel

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

On Thursday while the young son of Mr Mo[?]ley, of Borce Creek, was ridings a horse at his grandfather's (Mr Frager's) place at Cullivel, he was thrown…

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Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

A motor accideut happened on Saturday last to a party of kangaroo hunters on Boonoke North, Widgiewa. The party consisted of…

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Serious Motor Accident on Boonoke North Station

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 3

A serious motor accident happened on Boonoke North Station Widgiewa, the property of Messrs. F. S. Falkiner and Sons, on Friday last. From…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Monday Evening. Sad Burning Fatality

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

A shocking double burning fatality took place at South Kensington, V., on Sunday morning, by which Victoria Jane Allison, aged 29, and her…

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Other Items. Sufferings of Roumanian Refugees. a Fearful Railway Accident. an Anti-hohenzollern Pamphlet. Prisoners in the Fire Zone. the Czar's Rescript. Anticipated German Declaration of British Blockade. Italians' Success in Tripoli. an Amsterdam Report of Germany's Might. Washington Anticipates a "U'boat Crusade. Reported Attitude of the Pope. the Kaiser Decorates His Advisers. Frost Interferes with London Traffic. Spain Denies Submarine Activity

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

The terrible sufferings of Roumanian refugees, a hundred of whom are now in London, was illustrated at an inquest at Westminster on the infant…

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Boating Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

A rather serious accident happened to Mr. Jas. Kilgour, son of Mr. J. H. Kilgour, of Corowa, on Sunday morning last. It appears that, together with a…

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A South Coast Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 1

A derailment took place near Helensburgh. A specal coal train, during shunting operations, ran away overturning and blocking both lines. A…

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A Serious Accident. Lad Caught in a “Header”

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

Clifford Flecknoe, a well-known local youth, met with a very severe accident at Mr J. Ball’s farm, Momalong, on Friday afternoon. He was…

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Succouring the Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 23

Firemen, police, ambulances, and troops rushed to the scene, but the casualties were so heavy that the ordinary ambulances were not sufficient to remove the…

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Does Steel Get Tired? Accidents Caused Through Overwork

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

On the face of it, this question seems a ridiculous one, but it is a well-known fact that cutting tools such as razors, saws, chisels and the…

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Nasty Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

A painful accident happened to Mr A. G. Paynter, of Finley district, while harvesting on Tuesday last. It appears that previous to…

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Accident in the Harvest Field

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

A serious accident happened at the farm of Mr. John Ball, Werribee Park, Momalong, whilst the employes were engaged in stripping wheat. Clifford…

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Terrible Accident at Woy Woy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 33

An extra ordinary accident, due to a gang of fettlers mistaking which rails a train was travelling on, happened in the tunnel at Woy Woy. The result was that…

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Bathing Fatality on the Hawkesbury

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

George Hunt and his two sons were bathing in the River Hawkesbury yester, when Frederick, aged ten, got into difficulties. The father swam…

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Sad Drowning Fatality at Mathoura

The Independent · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 2

About 9 p.m. on Monday evening Mr W. Duggan. overseer on Gulpha Estate, reported that a well-known employee, Arthur Egerton Huggett, of Gulpha Estate was…

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Drowned in Gulpha Creek. Chauffeurs Body Found

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 February 1917 · page 2

Information was sent to Mathoura on Tuesday evening last by Mr W. Duggan, overseer at Gul[?]ha Station that Arthur E. Huggett, chauffeur…

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Drowning Fatality. Sequel to a Fishing Expedition

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1917 · page 2

At about 11 a.m. on Sunday last George Bell, a resident of Tocumwal, with a lad named Charles Bruce, between ten and eleven years of age,…

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Drowning Fatality

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 3

Word was received by the local police early on Monday morning last that George Bell and Charley Bruce, a lad aged 11 years, had disappeared…

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