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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Fatal Accident

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 5

A distressing fatality occurred locally on Tuesday. A teamster, Mr. J. Ryan, was proceeding to Morton with his team of five horses. Ascending the Woodstock hill, the leaders…

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Surf Bathing Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1912 · page 2

Dr W. B. Silverwood, a medical man, aged 40, of Congai, was drowned at Manly yesterday while surf bathing…

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Fatal Accident. Mr. James Ryan Killed

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1912 · page 7

News reached Nowra last Wednesday of a distressing fatality that had occurred near Milton the day previous, the victim being Mr James Ryan, for many years a resident…

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Chapter of Accidents

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 4

Whilst engaged at tho Moggendoura sawmill on Tuesday, Mr. Sid, Shepherd had the little finger of his right hand cut through, and the…

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Shoalhaven Man's Biography. Pioneer Printer's Reminiscences. a Paper That Was Drowned. the First Press on North Shore

The Nowra Leader · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

(As Printed in Sunday's "Sun" edition) Mr. P. Jefferson Wallace, of North Sydney is one of the fathers of Australian newspaper printing. His…

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Chapter of Accidents

The Nowra Leader · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 1

Quite a chapter of accidents befel some of the Valley residents who attended the Moss Vale show last week. Miss S. Morrison was the only one to…

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200 Bogus Claims. "Accidents" As Living

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

When Ernest Pendrigh, of Scales load, Tottenham, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court yesterday (says the "News" of November 30) to three…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 3

On Sunday, March 3rd, Bellingen Heads was the scene of a fatality that will long remain in the memory of those who witnessed it. Two young…

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Washed of the rocks and drowned

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 3 April 1912 · page 2

On Sunday morning a young man named Cooper was washed off the rocks at Tathra and drowned. The victim, at the time, was…

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Preventing Lift Accidents

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 April 1912 · page 10

An automatic safety installation, designed to prevent the numerous accidents liable to occur in using passenger lifts, is being placed on the…

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Sad Drowning Accident

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1912 · page 3

Rising with the sun on Sunday morning, Mr. Alfred Cooper, a man in the prime of life on vacation here for a…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1912 · page 2

The community was shocked on Saturday afternoon, when [?] was circulated that Mr P[?] H[?]den was the victim of a [?] accident. The…

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Shooting Fatality

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 2

A very and accident happened in Bega on Saturday, whereby Mr. P. Hayden met his death. It appears that he was endeavoring to…

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Frightful Gun Accident

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 May 1912 · page 11

A shockingly distressful accident occurred on Sunday forenoon last at Nowra Hill, the victim being Stan. Hanson, a young man 18 years of…

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Shooting Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 6

A shooting accident happened on Sunday morning last at Nowra Hill, [?]e the residence of Mr. W. S. Smith. Earlier in the day Thos. McGuire and…

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Ocean Accident

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 7

The succession of disasters at sea should rivet extra attention on the report of the Ocean Accident aud Guarantee Corporation, for last year. This…

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Ocean Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 3

The succession of disasters at tea should rivet extra attention on the report of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, for last year. This…

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Frightful Accident near Kiama. Powder Explosion. Five Railway Hen Killed. Four Seriously Injured

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1912 · page 8

A frightful accident occurred yesterday morning at the siding being constructed into Trevarthan's new quarry near Minnamurra, by which…

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Awful Explosion. Five Men Killed. Several Others Injured. Blasting Accident on Railway Works

The Nowra Leader · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 1

KIAMA, Tuesday.--The news reached here this morning of a terrible blasting accident at Minnamurra, a few miles from here. Five men were killed, and…

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A Rum Collision. Roosevelt the Wrecker. Opposition to Mr Taft. Question of Ethics

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 6

Sympathetic Old Lady (to cabby): "Is the poor man much hurt? Been run into by one of those nasty taxi-cabs, I suppose Imagine Mr Balfour three or four years from now starting a campaign to oust Mr Bonar Law and reinstate himself in the leadership of the Unionist Party…

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