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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

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Short Story Published by Special Arrangement. Lady Christie's Christmas An Accident and its Sequel. I.

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 3

"Cissy, Cissy, do come and look! It's so frightfullly exciting! There's a big carriage trying to get up the hill through the snow—and it can't!…

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Riding Accident

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 2

Miss Dulcie L[?]der, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. L[?]der of Mt. Mitchell, met with a nas[?]y accident on Saturday last, and although her injures were…

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Fatal Accidents at Eidsvold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 3

A message was received at Maryborough from Eidsvold to the effect that at 8 o'clock on Sunday morning Robert Porter, aged 50 years, was knocked…

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Railway Mishap. Collision at Central Station

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1918 · page 4

As the result of a collision at the Central Railway Station early this morning. between a number of railway carriages. a train timed to leave at 2.30…

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Drowning Fatality

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

A distressing fatality occurred at Hampton (Vic.) on Tuesday. A young man lost his life endeavoring to rescue his two sisters, who had…

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Double Drowning Fatality

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 4

Two daughters of Mr. Williams, of Seymour, were drowned while bathing in the Goulburn River at Seymour…

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Tragic Drowning

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 3

The death occurred recently under tragic circumstances, of Mrs. A. E. Jolli[?]e, of Oxford-street, Bulimba. The deceased lady was 63 years of age. Her untimely…

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Jockey Drowned

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 7

The holiday gaiety of Coraki was painfully interfered with last week through the death by drowning of a visitor to the town in the person of…

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Items of Interest. Shocking Fatality

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 6

William Childs, aged four years, was killed at Avonmore station the other night. It appears that the father, with the infant son, was travelling home…

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Injured by Corrosive Acid

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 6

Owing to a quantity of liquid, supposed to be corrosive acid, splashing over him in the yard of a house at Newtown the other day, Pte. Wm. Wilkins…

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Accidents

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. J. Sullings, manager of the Cope's Creek Dredge, struck bad luck on Tuesday last. He was riding from Mr. Kershaw's dredge…

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Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 4

Two sisters named Williams were drowned while bathing in the Goulburn River at Seymour (Victoria)…

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Two Sisters Drowned

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 3

Gladys Jean Williams, 19, and Pauline Brown Williams, 18, were drowned in the Goldburn River, Victoria, last Thursday afternoon. The elder girl,…

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Accidents

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 2

A man named J. Cooper met with a rather serious accident on Saturday evening near the Warialda Railway. He fell from a waggonette and his…

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Tingha Accidents

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. J. Sullings, manager of the Cope's Creek dredge, struck bad luck on Tuesday last. He was riding from Mr. Kershaw's dredge, to where the…

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Peculiar Fatality

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 7

A peculiar fatality is reported by the Cloncurry "Advocate," which states that a man named Frederick Peatiey was killed by lightning at the…

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Serious Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

A serious accident happened to a man named James Smith on Wednesday afternoon last. It appears that Smith, who was employed as a…

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Pecullar Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

Mr. W. I. Perry, Mining Warden of Glen Innes, last week conveyed an orehardist, of Tingha, who had fractured his collarbone,to the Inverell…

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Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

Whilst operating a planing machine in Mr. G. F. Nott's joinery works in Rusden-street on Friday afternoon, Mr. John Sands' hand accidentally came…

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Peculiar Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 3

A boy aged about ten years (John Fathers). who resides with his parents at Spring Creek Road, met with a peculiar accident on Friday week last., He was…

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