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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Horse Drowned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 26 September 1919 · page 2

Mr. Maurice Hearne, of Dubbo, lost a valuable dray horse a few days ago. while carting gravel from the river. It appears that the horse was…

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Local and General Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 26 September 1919 · page 1

A brother of Mr. C. H. von Schill; of Dubbo, accidentally and fatally shot himself in Tasmania a few days ago. He was the youngest of five brothers…

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Peculiar Accident. Bamboo Whistle Injures Boy's Eve

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 3 October 1919 · page 6

A peculiar accident happened at Mendooran on Friday afternoon last about 3 o'clock Frank, the four-year-old son of…

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Extraordinary Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 October 1919 · page 1

An elderly man named Jack O'Brion died in the Forbes hospital as the result of a remarkable accident. He was returning from the Engowra show,…

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Serious Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 October 1919 · page 1

While engaged sinking a well near Baltimore on Thursday last, Mr. A. McGlashan, sen., met with a serious accident, owing to the handle of a buckel…

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Fatal Accident

The Western Herald · Saturday 18 October 1919 · page 2

A fatality occurred, at Kenilworth Station on Monday morning last when owing to the capsizing of a dray of wood, a returned soldier named…

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Fatal Accident at Ballimore

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 4

A dreadful fatality occurred at Ballimore yesterday afternoon when a well-known resident of that centre, in the person of Mr. Andrew Smith, was…

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A Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 1

To spend four years fighting the Huns and Turks, to go right through its horrors, facing death every hour of nearly every day of that long period…

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Fighting In Russia. Mine Fatality London, Oct. 23

The Western Herald · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 2

A Reuter message states the New York police changed a crowd of 300 service men, missed in front of the Lerington Theatre, to prevent the…

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The Ballimore Fatal[?] Accidental Death

The Wellington Times · Monday 27 October 1919 · page 2

On Friday, the Wellington di[?] coroner, Mr. A. C. Lee, went [?] Ballimore, to hold an inquiry into [?] death of Andrew Smith, who was [?]…

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A Singular Diving Accident

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 2

A son of Mr. Simon Eslick, of Bloomfield, when out with a fishing party on the Micquarie River, 40 miles from Orange, on Thursday last…

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A Fatal Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 1

Mr. Jas Hundy (74), a resident of Coonamble, accidentally shot himself with a pea-rifle and died shortly afterwards. Deceased had lived in…

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Deniken's Success. Big Railway Accident London, Nov. 10

The Western Herald · Wednesday 12 November 1919 · page 2

Router's Paris correspondent states latest estimates of casualties in the collision with Simplon Express shows that 60 were killed and over 100…

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Aeroplane Fatality Reported Death of Douglas and Ross Australian Aviators. London, Nov 14

The Western Herald · Saturday 15 November 1919 · page 2

A United Service London message on Thursday states Douglas and Ross started their flight to Australia at 11.30 going towards Dijou…

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Terrible Aeroplane Fatality. Death of Douglas & Ross Two Australian Aviators

The Western Herald · Wednesday 19 November 1919 · page 2

Particulars of the terrible aeroplane accident which resulted in the death of two Australians, states that the Alliance plane left Hounslow at 11.30…

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Motoring Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 25 November 1919 · page 1

On Friday night William Ryan was driving a motor car from Quambone to Gilgandra, with Mr. F. J. Birks, of Gilgandra and his two children as…

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Car Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 25 November 1919 · page 1

The "News" states that Mr. A. E. Garnsey, when leaving Dubbo last week in a motor car for Narromine, met with a peculiar accidents When turning a…

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Gilgandra Boy Killed. Result of Motor Accident

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 12

A fatal motor car accident occurred about a mile from Gulargambone on the Gilgandra road on Friday night last, resulting in the death of Arthur Birks,…

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Fatal Accident

The Western Herald · Saturday 20 December 1919 · page 2

On Friday, 12th instant, Mrs. Jeffery of Bourke, received word that her son, Charles Henry, had met with an accident at Walgett at the races…

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An Aeroplane Accident

The Wellington Times · Wednesday 31 December 1919 · page 9

The Melbourne, "Herald" newspaper aeroplane met with disaster at Morning ton over a fiver acre paddock, where parcels were dropped. In endeavouring…

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