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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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Accident at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 2

Mr. Bowler, chief assistant at the .Mai- lean Post Office, met, with a painful accident on Tuesday. He was proceeding home at luncheon hour, and when Crossing…

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A Collision at Pyde. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 May 1920 · page 5

A Irani and a horse and dray collided at Ryde this morning, with the result that three people were more or less seriously injured. While the tram and dray were…

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Shooting Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 May 1920 · page 4

While out shooting near Ulmarra a couple of days since, Mr. Milton Fernance met with an accident, a charge of shot entering his left arm, caused through the…

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Accident on a Destroyer. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 May 1920 · page 3

The Rob Roy, a destroyer, was carrying out battle practice at Sandown when a boiler exploded. Five of the stokers were seriously injured…

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Collision in Sydney Harbor. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 May 1920 · page 5

The harbor tug Britton and the Sydney Ferries motor-launch Lady Edna collided in the harbor. The latter was badly damaged, and was beached in a sinking…

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Accident to the Prince. Thrown Off a Horse Not at All Hurt

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 May 1920 · page 3

Mr. John Sandes, special correspondent of the Australian Press Association, wired from Christchurch on Sunday:--…

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Sequel to Motor Car Fatality. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 5

At the Police Court to-day Harry Vernon Duncan, a well-known business man, was committed for trial on a charge of having unlawfully killed a woman, Annie…

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Trams Collide. Serious Accident at Waterloo. Number of Persons Injured. Fifty People Thrown on the Roadway. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 4

A special tram, crowded with people on the way to Victoria Park faces, collided with an ordinary tram for Zetland at Waterloo about noon. The passengers…

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Fatal Accident on Railway Line

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 4

On Sunday last, while riding a railway tricycle with a couple of companions near Coff's Jetty, a young man named Vivian Jesser met with an accident which…

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Sixteen Persons Injured Sydney Tram Collision

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

Sixteen persons were injured in a rear-end collision between two crowded trams at Botany Road, Waterloo, Sydney on Wednesday. The smash…

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Federal Politicians' Pay What About Injured Soldiers?

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

Colonel Bell (Tas.), who voted against the proposed increase of Federal members' salaries, in the House of Representatives on Tuesday asked…

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Casualties. a Laborer Lectrocuhd, Two Others Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 3

A fitter's laborer was electrocuted and two others injured at the City Council's powerhouse at Pyrmont last night…

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Maroochy Boat Accident Some Narrow Escapes. Ex -Clarence People's Experiences

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 1

Mr. W. Evans, Maroochydore (Q.), writes interestingly of a boating accident which befell two of his sons when endeavoring to t cross the Maroochy bar…

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Fatal Sulky Collision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 3

Mrs. Mary McFarlane was seated in a sulky at Cessnock when the horse suddenly took fright, bolted, and crashed into a sulky coming in the opposite direction…

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Fatality on the Railway. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 3

William J. Doak (45), assistant station master at Victoria Park railway station, was crushed between the buffers of a goods train whilst shunting last night, and…

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Accident

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 2

What might have been an accident fraught with serious consequences occurred in Victoria street, Grafton, just, before midday on Saturday. Dr. Diethelm's…

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Casualties. a Boiler Bursts. Three Men Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 5

The boiler of the donkey engine on the Wee Two, belonging to the American Trading Company, Jones Bay, exploded this afternoon. Two men who, were…

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Motor Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 5

Five persons were more or less seriously injured at Railway Town, hear Broken Hill, as the result of the overturning of a motor-car…

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French President Meets with Accident. London, Monday Night

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1920 · page 2

M .Deschanel, the French President, fell from a hurrying express at Mont Argis. He was badly bruised, but otherwise was not seriously…

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Fell From a Train. Accident to French President M. Deschanel's Marvellous Escape. Insisted on Keeping His Appointment. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 May 1920 · page 5

M. Deschanel, the French President, fell from a hurrying express at Montargis, and was badly bruised, but otherwise was not seriously injured. The accident was not…

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