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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Shocking Accident at Erskineville. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 1

An unknown man endeavoured to board a train at Erskineville railway station tins morning, when he slipped between the platform and the…

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Bathing Fatality. Youth Drowned in the Murrumbidgee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1919 · page 3

About 2.30 p.mm. yesterday it was reported to the Wagga police station that a youth named Thomas Hodge, had been drowned in the…

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Motor Car Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1919 · page 2

About 9 o'clock yesterday morning Ivy Margaret Burt, of Wagga, was the victim of a motor car accident. She was riding her bicycle along…

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Magisterial Inquiries. Bathing Fatality

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1919 · page 3

A magisterial inquiry was held at the Wagga Court House yesterday morning by Mr. F. C. Stellway, deputy coroner, into the…

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Torpedoed Killara. [?] for Drowning. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1919 · page 4

A claim for [?] compensation [?]er the Seamen;s Compensation [?] was concluded in the District Court to-day, then by consent alexander Brown, a…

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Concrete Ships in Collision

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1919 · page 4

Ferro-concrete ships would not be hopelessly smashed like earthenware vessels if Sup—17 into another vessel of the same class, how on,…

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Accident at Henty

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1919 · page 2

Mr. Fred. Litt, of Wagga, aged 22, employed as feeder on the chaffcutter of Messrs. Stockman and Kicing, had the misfortune to lose his left hand…

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Drowning at Austinmer. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 6

Florrie Varley, a maid servant, was drowned at Austinmer while suring this morning…

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Cootamundra Accident. Engine Jumps Rails. Cootamundra

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 4

An accident occurred here this morning when an engine from the mail train, whilst shunting, jumped the rails and crashed into a…

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Drowned in the Bath

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1919 · page 2

A sad fatality occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hanney, Morgan street, Wagga, yesterday morning, their youngest child, Dorothy Isabel, aged…

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Collision with Ambulance. Cyclist Killed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1919 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon, Richard Kavanagh, a driver of a St. John Ambulance, was conveying an influenza patient to the Melbourne Hospital…

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Items of News. Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1919 · page 2

A painful accident betel Janet Wunsch, the 12-year-old daughter of Mr. E. Wunsch, of Kineaid-street, Wagga, on Friday evening. She was sliding on…

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Drowned in Macquarie. Boy Affected by Sun. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 3

A boy named Leslie Luke, aged 17, was drowned in the Macquarie River, near Wellington, to-day. He was swimming about when he suddenly sank…

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Motor Cyclist Injured. Machine Runs Over Bank

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1919 · page 4

In the 24 hours' Northern Cycling Club's motor reliability trial from Sydney to Bathurst Goulburn, and return, one competitor, Finlay, sustained…

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Peculiar Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1919 · page 2

A' peculiar, and at the same time painful, accident befel Alick M'Guinness, aged 5 years, yesterday. The child is a son of Mr. W. M'Guinness, steamsheds…

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Injured While Wrestling. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1919 · page 3

A man named Ashton, aged 26, was wrestling with several males on Bondi beach this afternoon, when he accidentally fell. His spine was…

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Sunk in Collision. Sixteen' Lives Lost. New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 2

The French barque Helene was sunk in a collision, Sixteen persons perished…

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Motor Bicycle Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1919 · page 2

About 8 o'clock on Sunday evening Mr. O. King, of Baylis-street, Wagga, was proceeding along Tarcutta-road on his motor bicycle, his wife…

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Correspondence. the Boree Creek Accident to the Editor

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 2

Sir,—During the past week it has come to my knowledge that certain rumours hare been circulated in connection with Miss Grahame's accident…

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Items of News. the Motor Cycle Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 2

Mrs. O. King, who was injured in the motor cycle accident on Tarcutta Road on Sunday evening, is doing well at the Belmore Hospital, and Mr. King is also…

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