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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

305 stories in Riverina's papers · page 16 of 16

Bathing Fatality. Boy Drowned in the Murrumbidgee. the Body Found

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 2

A youth named Richard ("Dicky") Ross, aged 16 years, was drowned in he murrumbidgee River at Whitton on sunday afternoon. The unfortunate…

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Drowning Cases at Hay

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 2

Mr. Henry Rees Jones, 73, was walking along the river bank at Hay, with his wife on Saturday evening, when he slipped and fell into the…

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Fatality at Temora

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 3

At Temora on Boxing Day George Constable, aged 26, had taken off his coal to fight a man when he collapsed and died…

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Injured Man Improving

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 2

David Fleming, the man who was admitted to the Wagga Hospital on Wednesday night in an unconscious condition, suffering from a fractured…

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Burning Accident. Woman's Clothes Ignite. Aged Father died from buras

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 4

WHILE Miss Florence Stratton, 30, daughter of Mr. Robert Stratton, of Taradale, 17 miles from Tumbarumba, was making tea at an open…

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Sulky Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 December 1916 · page 2

On account of the dreadful state of the roads at Tarcutta, Mrs. J. Galvin and two children were thrown out of a sulky. Mrs. Galvin was driving…

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