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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

232 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 12

Steamer Runs Down Fishing Boat Two Persons Drowned. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 22 July 1918 · page 3

The steamer Leura ran into and sank the fishing boat, Ivy Florence, three miles from the North West Channel pile light in Hobson's Bay last night…

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Fire in Curio Shop Two Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 22 July 1918 · page 3

A. fire broke cut early this morning in an old curio stop and boarding hosse at 172 Queen street. The front bedroom and contents were severely damaged, and other…

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Serious Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 July 1918 · page 2

Mr. Wm. Morley, of Wahgunyah, met with a very serious accident on Saturday night, about three miles the other side of Daysdale. He and Mr. Wm…

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Shocking Burning Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 July 1918 · page 2

On Wednesday, 17th July, Mrs. Maud Pullon, aged 47, was admitted to the Corowa Hospital from Savernake suffering from bums on the head,…

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Circular Saw Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 3

Mr. Joseph Mahoney, a middle-aged man, and a waggon builder in the employ of John Gelme, Ltd., of Wagga, met with a rather painful accident on…

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Road Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 3

On Friday last while returning from Wahgunyah Mr. and Mrs. E. Buscall met with on accident (says the "Sun"). When opposite the residence…

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Hit on Head with a Bottle Injured Max Dies. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 August 1918 · page 4

A man amed Charles Vernon, reading at Park street. Abbotsford, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital last night and died three hours later from fracture of the…

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Dead and Injured Robbed (United Service Special Cable.)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 August 1918 · page 3

A message from "The Times" correspondent at The Hague says that the Berlin "Vossische Zeitung," describing a railway accident at Lendsberg declares that…

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A Staircase Fatality. Motor Importer's Fate. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 August 1918 · page 3

Mr. Jerome Weetman, a well-known Sydney motor importer, was talking to his partner in his office in the city yesterday afternoon when he overbalanced and…

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Remarkable Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1918 · page 29

A returned soldier, William Brighton Wilson, aged about 35, a resident of South. Albury, and son of Mr. W. B. Wilson, of Kiewa-street, had a remarkable escape…

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Shooting Accident at Culcairn

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 August 1918 · page 3

John Bevan, 25 years of age, a railway fettler at Culcairn, was admitted to the Albury hospital yesterday morning suffering from a severely lacerated arm and…

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Motor Fatality. Well-known Bookmaker's Death

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 August 1918 · page 4

Percy Benjamin Hart, the well- known bookmaker, left Sydney on Thursday on a shooting excursion with a number of friends. While passing…

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Severely Injured

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 August 1918 · page 2

Mr. J. Weldon, grazier, of Moira, met with a severe accident on Monday afternoon. He was attending to an acetylene, gas generator at his shearing…

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A Motoring Fatality Car Dashes Into Bridge Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 August 1918 · page 3

A fatal motor collision occurred last evening between. Haberfield and Leichhardt, when a motor car confining three, passengers and the driver swerved and…

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Sulky Fatality at Wagga

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 August 1918 · page 1

An extraordinary sulky accident, resulting in the violent death of a single man named James M'Nickle, 38 years of age, occuied in Edward street, Wagga, opposite the Flour Mill, on Sunday…

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Steamer Sunk in Collision

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 August 1918 · page 3

A Washington message says that the merchant steamer Proteus (4836 tons) has been sunk in a collision. The cre[?] was rescued…

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Fatal Sulky Accident at Wagga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 August 1918 · page 32

An extraordinary sulky accident, resulting in the violent death of a single man named James M'Nickle, 38 years of age, occurred in Edward-street, Wagga,…

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Carried Away in Flooded River One Man Drowned. Orange

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 August 1918 · page 3

While two men were crossing the Bell river, in the Orange district, which is in high flood after the heavy rainfall, a sudden rush of flood water carried them…

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Sad Accident at Wanganella. Hay Resident Drowned

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 August 1918 · page 2

This forenoon Mr. Edwin Myers, of the Hay Irrigation Area, received word that his son, Mr. James William Myers, had been accidentally…

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Motor, Cycle and Tramcar Collide. Max Killed, Another Injured. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 August 1918 · page 2

A collision between a motorcycle and a tramcar in Parramatta road, Forest Lodge, this morning resulted in Walter H. Nunn being killed and Frederick Henry…

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