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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Fatal Motor Accident. Car Ran Into a Bridge. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 15 January 1916 · page 2

A taxi cab carrying the driver and William Armatage, with his wife and daughter and Miss McLean, ran into a bridge at Arncliffe last night…

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Drowned While Swimming River. Plucky Effort at Rescue. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 17 January 1916 · page 2

Samuel Stewart a telegraph lineaman, was drowned in the Macquarie River on Friday in the act of swimming over the river at the railway bridge with a wire…

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Serious Bolting Accident. Maitland

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 2

James Smith, 23 years of age, a married man, residing in High-street, met with a serious accident this morning. He was driving a pair of horses attached…

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Sad Bathing Fatality

The North Western Courier · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 2

Mrs. Duncan and her brother George Hudson, the latter 14 years of age were drowned while bathing near Wingham. It appears that the boy got…

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Accident at Maitland. Maitland

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 2

J. B. Smith, the young married man who met with a serious accident in Monday, through a pair of horses bolting and colliding with a telegraph post…

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A Singular Fatality

The North Western Courier · Friday 21 January 1916 · page 2

At Middle Brighton (Vic.), Mr. Twinem, aged 72, having dressed for church, was awaiting his married daughter, Mrs. Fanny Louke, who was…

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Fatal Brawl Among Soldiers. Arises from Game of Two-up. Two Men Injured and One has Neck Broken. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 2

The State Commandant made an official atatement to-day to the affect that a gambling dispute, which occurred among the soldiers confined on Whison…

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Sad Drowning Accident

The North Western Courier · Monday 24 January 1916 · page 2

On Friday last a young man known as Barney Party, who was a mail contractor running between Millie and Bulara, was found drowned in a…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Bay's Head Blown Off. QUIRINDI

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 24 January 1916 · page 2

A [?] shooting accident occurred at Quirindi yesterday when a boy named Walter Wheatley, 7 years of age, was It seems two boys were playing in an…

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Turks Drowned

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

Greek reports say that the Turks were recently restive under Enver Pasha serious plots have been discovered against him. These were…

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Mail Carrier Drowned

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

A young Married man named — berry, more fardliarly known as uaddie were conducted the mail service between BellatBathursta and the Water…

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Ship Torpedoed. Many Montenegrins Drowned. LONDON

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

It is reported that the steamer [?]tta Di Palermo was [?]opedocd on the [?] inst. while entering San [?]ovan[?]a and sank in seven minutes…

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Latest Telegrams Sydney, Monday. Returned Soldier Injured

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

As the Sydney mail train was about to leave the Junee station a returned soldier, wounded at Gallipoli, named James McDonald, was paying good bye…

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Swept Out to Sea. Man Drowned in Sight of Family. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

Arthur Lookwood one of the best known archa[?]dists in the Hawkesbury distict was surf bathing yesterday when he was swept out by the cu[?]rent…

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Fatal Saleyards Accident Grazier Succumbs. TENTERFIELD

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

The death occurred on Saturday evening of Mr. William Thomas Lee, aged 53, as the result of an accident at [?]elivia cloarance sale on Wednesday. Deceased…

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Sad Drowning. Maitland

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 3

A sad drowning fatality occurred at Raymond Terrace last night when a launch from Newcastle got caught in the punt wire at Nelson's Plains Ferry…

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River Fatality. Two Men get into Current. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

Brooke Greville, 43, and Rupert James 15, were drowned in the river at Hay. Greville was teaching a number of others to swim, when young Greville…

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Serious Motor Bike Accident. Sydney

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

[?] Cole, of Molong, on a motor bike collided with an empty wheat, waggon. Ou[?] of his cars was torn off, his jaw was broken, and his skull severely…

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Soldier Badly Injured. Falls from Tender of Engine. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 2

Rather than wait for a Inter train, a soldier named Milton Todd mounted the engine tender of the 11 o'clock train from Sydney to Liverpool last…

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Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 2

Matron Briggs Glendalough, Hospital, informs us that Max willcox, of Garah, aged six years, was brought into the hospital on Sunday. It…

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