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Blue Mountains · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

8 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Lax Lighting Accident Narrowly Averted

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 3

On Saturday night two motor cars night have met with accidents at Wentworth Falls, owing to the large light at Cale's Corner being still…

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Over the Cliff Two Persons Injured a Father's Heroism

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 2

Another of those miraculous escapes from death, which punctuate the list of casualties, happened at Blackheath on Sunday last. It was…

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Springwood's Bottle Neck Ghastly Accident Probable

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 5

The necessity for the resumption of certain frontages for widening the Main Western Road, especially that stretch from the Royal Hotel to the…

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Found Shot Fatality at Lawson

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 4

When Mr. George Damyon sanitary contructor to the B.M. Shire Council, visited the depot camp late on Wednesday afternoon, he found…

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Motor Fatality Popular Commercial Killed Others Seriously Injured

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 4

Big motor smash here. Freddie Clark killed instantly; others injured. The above urgent message reached…

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Fortunes by Accident

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 7

It was the burning of a starch factory that first received the adhesive qualities of scorched starch and introduced cheap gum…

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Recent Car Fatality How "Freddie" Clark Died the Driver's Story

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 3

How Frederick James Barnet Clark, the popular commercial, affectionately known by a large number of Mountaineers as "Freddie", met…

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Dashed to Death Shocking Run-away Fatality

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 5

A shocking accident occurred yesterday down Hartley way, in which an old Mountain Identity, Mr. John Halley, was killed outright, and a…

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