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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

125 stories in South Coast's papers · page 4 of 7

Queensland. Two Girls Drowned

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 4

Two girls, named Wier and Davidson, aged 11 and 14, were paddling in the river at Gympie, and it is surmised they got into difficulties. One went…

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Four Jockeys Injured

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 4

Four jockeys were injured at Mooney Valley Races yesterday. J. McGregor sustained a broken collar bone, P. Cosgrove fractured two ribs, A…

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Coach Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 2

Horses attached to a coach from Wellington to Mudgee bolted going down a hill. The coach was overturned and wrecked, hut the driver and…

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Accident to Mr. P. Glanville

The Nowra Leader · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 3

Mr. P. Glanville of Nowra Hill, met with a painful accident yesterday. It appears he was engaged in taking pigs by vehicle to Nowra when he had…

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Shooting Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 2

Norman Garner, 14, was about to leave his home yesterday, at Yass, with the intention of shooting foxes, when Alfred, his brother, who had a gun…

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Tasmania. Coach Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 2

A five-horsebrake, containing twenty footballers overturned near Kingston on Saturday night, 6 persons being seriously injured…

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Serious Accident to Mr. P. J. Glanville

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 11

On Thursday last, Mr P. J. Glanville, of Bengelala, met with a very serious accident, resulting in a bad fracture of one of his legs. Mr Glahville was…

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Accident to Mr. A. Jarman

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 1

Mr. A. Jarman. butter manager of the Nowra Co-operative Factory met with a very painful accident on Friday last. He was about to descend…

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Motor Car Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 3

Messrs. McMurtrie Bros.' motor car, driven by Mr. J. Hunt, and used by Mr. Brown, the well-known commercial traveller, turned over while…

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Casualties Accident at the Falls

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 5

When Mr. P. J. Glanville was driving a cart into Mr. P. Monaghan's place at the Fails, the horse took fright and collided with a post…

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Railway Accident

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 5

A railway accident occurred in Victoria on Monday morning, almost equally disastrous in its effect to the catasthrope at Braybrook on Easter Monday, 1908. At 9…

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The Last of the Injured

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 4

They freed his crushed legs at last, and as they did so his hand went out and Bought the hand of one of his preservers. Then he handed his…

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South Australia. Injured by an Aeroplane

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 2

As a Bleriot aeroplane was rising at Adelaide, on Saturday, the propellor struck Ewart Lock, aged 16. The boy’s right hand was severed and his…

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Accident to the Governor General

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 2

Lord Dudley, owing to a slight accident, is unable to leave Government House at present…

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Ran From Drowning Girl. Young Cowards Censured

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 3

What the Willenhall (Staffordshire) coroner described as the most outrageous act of cowardice he had ever heard of was described on Monday…

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Raging Accident

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

Four horses fell at Moorefield on Saturday, and two jockeys were injured. One of the horses was destroyed…

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Fishermen Drowned

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 4

By the capsizing of boats in the River Amoy, during a typhoon, 200 fishermen were drowned…

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A Terrible Fatality. Sad Death of Mr. Hugh McDONALD

The Nowra Leader · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 1

Great regret was expressed in Nowra on Wednesday afternoon when news came to hand that Mr. Geo. Purdie of Cabbagetree Flat had made the…

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Shocking Fatality. Death of Mr. Hugh McDONALD

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 5

The community was shocked on Wednesday last by the news of the tragic death of Mr. Hugh McDonal at…

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A Tragic Fatality. Sad Death of Mr. M[?]donald

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 10 August 1910 · page 2

It came as a shock to Nowra people when word was brought into town on Wednesday hat that Mr Hugh M'Don had been found dead on his farm up the river…

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