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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Drowning Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

A party of four—two women and two men—were rowing on the Yarra in a canoe when it capsized owing to a cross current. Eva McCartney (28)…

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Latest Wires. SYDNEY, Monday. Terrible Drowning Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

Four young men, Edward Ostenfeld (17), Oscar McAlpine (15), Roy Coleman (18), and Albert Davis, were spending a holiday, at Como, They…

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Horrible Fatality at Jamberoo. Man Gored by a Bull

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 1

Frank Harris, junr., aged 41, whilst attending to a prize bull on Sunday afternoon at Mr. E. Cole's dairy, was gored to death. The bull, which was…

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Federal Member Injured

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 2

Mr. Poyton, M.H.R., was knocked down by a cyclist in Williams Street, Adelaide, yesterday, and severely injured. I will be some time before…

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Dick Arnst Injured. Alleged Assault by Four Men

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 3

Dick Arnst, the popular sculling champion, was almost done to death at the hands, it is alleged, of some drunken brawlers, with whom he had remonstrated in the…

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Drowning Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 2

Wm. Butler (14), Ernst Butler (11), and James Conale (11), were drowned in Lake Cope Cope, Victoria. It is believed that the two younger boys…

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Express in Collision. Courage of Engine Driver. Millionaires Peril

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 3

Crashing into the rear of a local train on Saturday, the non-stop North-Western express to Liverpool wrecked the hindmost coaches, three people on the…

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Fatal Accident to Mr. E. Thompson

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 9

On Wednesday night a very serious accident happened to Mr E. Thompson, of Kangaroo Valley. Driving a young horse, which he was breaking in, he was…

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Serious Accident to Mr E. Thompson

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 2

On Wednesday night, (says the Berry "Register") a very serious accident happend Mr. E. Thompson, of Kangaroo Valley. Driving a young horse which he was…

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Tram Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1912 · page 2

At time Satman, £2 years of age, residing at Alexandria was returning home last night and when strutting on the footboard of a train was struck by…

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Telegrams SYDNEY, Monday. Racing Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1912 · page 2

A serious accident occurred in the Hack Race at the Marengo races. Two horsses came down, and a jockey named George Brown was killed…

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Drowning Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 2

Two brothers named Meddlemiss were drowned while bathing in the Campaspe River…

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Fatal Collision

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred at the railway station, Christchurch. A train ran into a motor car and carried it a distance of forty yards. The petrol…

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Drowning Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 2

Father J. Kelly, assistant priest at Singleton, was drowned at Nobb’s Crossing. Gleunio’s Creek, near Singleton, on Sunday, while on his way to…

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Drowning Case

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 2

Stanley Ha[?]dine, a clerk in the Public Instruction Department, Sydney, was drowned in tho Shoalhaven from a launch with a party on board…

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Fatality, at Greenwell Point

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 12

On Friday night Stanley Harradine, a visitor, was proceeding to Greenwell Point, when he bad the misfortune to fall overboard and get drowned. On…

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Drowning Fatality

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 8
Also in The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser

The Coroner (Mr. C. J. B. Watson) conducted an inquiry on Saturday afternoon concerning the fatality at Greenwell Point…

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Train Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1912 · page 2

While the engine of a passenger train was shunting at Van Yean station, Vic, it knocked three trucks on to carriages standing at the station with…

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New Cardinals. Slight Accident to Pope

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 3

The Pope was the victim of a slight accident this morning (wired the correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette" on November 29). His Holiness…

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