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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

125 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 7

Boating Fatality. Brisbane

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 3

The sailing boat Zena, with a crew of four capsized off Peel Island. The upturned craft with the crew clinging to it, drifted towards St. Helene. One…

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A Nasty Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 3

On Friday, Masters Claude Miller and Jack Siddins were out rabbit shooting on the bank of the Brogo River, near Mr George Spindler’s…

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Accidentally Shot

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 3

A girl named Honey was accidentally shot at South Lismore by her little brother while he was handling a revolver…

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Accident to Mrs. C. Horne

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 12

A painful accident happened at the aquatic sports at Gray's Beach on Saturday last to Mrs C. Herne, of Berrellan. As one of the launches ran alongside the…

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A Young Man Drowned

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 4

Ernest Stephen Reeves, aged 19 met with his death by drowning in the Richmond River opposite the Railway wharf on…

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Driving Accident

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 8

Messrs. Jas. Gregson, Jas. Greenwood, and O. A. Manns met with an accident on Saturday which might easily have led to serious results…

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Accident at the Races

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 5

Owen May, the rider of War Cry in the Major's Creek Welter Handicap, had a leg broken on Boxing Day through his horse…

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Drowned

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

A youth, named George Hammond, was drowned while surf-bathing at Coogee yesterday. The body has not been recovered…

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Terrible Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

Early this morning George Mullens, a railway employee, while crossing the line at the Central Station, was run over by a train and shockingly…

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Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

A light engine dashed into a cart containing four men at Harcourt yesterday. One sustained concussion of the spine. The horse was killed…

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Shooting Fatality

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 January 1910 · page 4

Mr G. Brown, of the Post Office Store, Nowra, received the sad intelligence last week of the death of a younger brother in a peculiarly distressful manner. It…

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Accident on the River

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 5

Mr Charles Gilbert, of Nowra, was on Thursday morning in charge of a punt conveying stone from the Nowra quarry to…

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Collision

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

The coasting ketches, Bronzewing and Napperley, collided off Largs Bay. The Napperley foundered, but all hands were saved…

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Boating Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

William Goodsir, 82, while sailing on the harbor on Saturday, stood up in a boat, overbalanced into the water, and was drowned. The body has not been…

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Bathing Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

Louis Lyons, 25, barber, was bathing at Newcastle yesterday, when he was carried out by the undertow and drowned. The body was devoured by…

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Drowning Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 4

Stephen Heffernan, a young man, resident of Helensburgh was washed off the rocks at Wattamolla and drowned…

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Attacked by a Shark. Boy Terribly Injured

The Nowra Leader · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 1

A boy Alfred Victor Clulow, 15 years of ago, was bathing near No. 2 ballast jetty, at Carrington on Wednesday morning, when he was attacked…

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Fatality at Broughton Vale. a Child Burned

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 8

Pearl: Amelia, doorman, aged 2 years, daughter of Mr James H. Boorman, of Broughton Vale (formerly of Nowra) died at her father's…

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Accident at Gerringong

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 8

An accident occurred at Omega railway crossing on Friday last, where by a young, man named John Reynolds, grandson of Mr M. Reynolds…

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Fatal Accident

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 6

On Tuesday last week a lad named Minton, son of Mr. William Minten, of Major's Creek, met with a fatal accident. It appears…

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