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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Shocking Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 3

A shocking fatality is reported from Bridgewater, near Hobart. Albert Victor Bailey, 30 years of age, was returning home with his wife and child,…

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Serious Collision

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 6

Last Friday a Celestial Arthur Keo Chong, was riding a [?]or cycle in Wellington, when he collided with a motor cycle driven by G. Wilkins. The…

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Jockeys Injured

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 6

During the running of the second division of the Trial Stakes at Rosebery Park races on Wednesday Farranti and Lurlie fell. The former…

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Collision in Sydney Harbour. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 4

A collision occurred near the Heads at 1 o'clock this morning between the two coasting steamers, Kiama and Donmore. The former returned to her…

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A Serious Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 1

Mr. James Hogan, seu., of Beni, met with a serious accident on Wednesday. The old gentleman had been in town during the day, leaving in the…

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Motor Car Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 3

Mr. R. Penhall and this son, James, were walking along [?]st., Orange, on Friday night, when they were knocked down by a motor car driven…

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Nearly an Accident

The Western Herald · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 3

An amusing motor-cyclist story comes from Liverpool. A gentleman was returning to Liverpool after a country run one evening recently, when in, front of him he noticed a bright light. It came rapidly nearer, and…

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Shocking Railway Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 1

Ganger Costello, an elderly man in charge of a railway gang at Woy Woy, wan run over by the Brisbane mail and cut to pieces on Saturday night…

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A Peculiar Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 3

An [?]sual accident occurred to a passenger by the Sydney express on Monday. Miss Jessie Brown (23), of Union-st Darling Harbor, stopped on…

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Store Creek Fatality. Funeral of Mrs. Quirk

The Wellington Times · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 5

The funeral of the late Mrs. Peter Quirk, the victim of the sad driving fatality which occurred at Store Creek, took place on Monday at Stuart Town…

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GULAR. Sad Drowning Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 6

The Castlereagh, under usual conditions, does not afford facilities for swimming, its normal condition being that of a mere sand bed Since the…

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A Collision

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 7

The Taree mail train dashed into a railway trolly that was being used for the paymaster to the navvies, camp at a gravel…

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A Serious Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 1

Master Frank Kent, son of Mr. S. Kent, of the Railway Junction Hotel, Hotel Dubbo, on Tuesday fell from a lorry, and sustained a broken thigh,…

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Serious Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 1

A Mr. Wilson met with a serious accident near Narromine last Thursday. He was riding a horse, which bolted, and the girth breaking the…

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The Accident to Mr. Tibbits

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 4

Mr. Earnest Tibbits (son of Mr. J. C. Tibbits) who met with a painful riding accident on Saturday afternoon, is, we are pleased to learn, progressing…

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Local and General Serious Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 4

A serious accident happened to Mr. E. Wilson, of Brandon, Narromine, on Thursday last. He was thrown from a [?]orse through the girth breaking, and…

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Accident at White City. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 4

An accidcnt occurred at the White City last night. A boat on the elevated merry-go-round fell while in motion. No one was in it, but three…

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Accidentally Drowned

The Western Herald · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

In connection with the doath of Mr. Harold Horton, aged 25, which we reported last issue, the Corouor, Mr., J. W. M. Laidlaw, P. M., held an inquiry at Lower Lila…

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Found Drowned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 1

The body of Richard Ephraim wan found floating in a dam at the Blayney freezing works yesterday. Deceased was employed as a [?]…

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Sad. Fatality Near Orange

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 4

News of a sad fatality comes from Orange. While Mr. and Mrs. James McClymont were proceeding to their home on Thursday the kingbolt of the…

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