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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

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Two Brothers Drowned. Flood in Tasmania. Launceston

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1923 · page 5

Not for 30 years have such gales and floods been experienced in Tasmania. Over 11 inches of rain has fallen. Yesterday the river Tamar burst its banks…

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Train and Car. Two Persons Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1923 · page 5

A motor car driven by a commercial traveller, with a young woman as a passenger, collided with an electric train at a level crossing near Aspendale,…

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QUEENSLAND. Forceps in Stomach. the Sugar Industry. Fatal Motor Accident. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1923 · page 5

The fourth day of the action or Mrs. Corcoran v. Dr. Cooper was entered upon to–day. Sister Mary Augustine stated she had…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Lenlliguin Jockey Killed. Hay

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 June 1923 · page 3

While returning from Den liquin, after attending the Hay races a car containing Thomas Bradley, jockey, of Den liquin, and four companions collided with…

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Motor Car Backs. Three Persons Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1923 · page 2

A motor car which ran backward across the intersection of King and Castlereagh streets last night injured several people. A cab horse was so badly…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Forbes

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1923 · page 3

Jack Hayward, aged 12, accompanied by Roy Haydon. left Forbes yesterday for shooting on the Manna Mountains. When Haydon was jumping over a log…

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Terrible Accident at Bochum. Motor Lorry and Factory Girls. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1923 · page 3

A German eye-witness, says "The Times" Cologne correspondent, has given details of a terrible accident which occurred at Bochum. Six…

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Fatality at Bungawalbyn

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1923 · page 4

A tragic occurrence took place at "Ashley," Miss Birmingham's tarm, at Busgawalbyn, on Wednesday last whereby a married man named Sylvester Alran…

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Car Uproots Tree. Passengers Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1923 · page 1

A motor car containing a number of passengers got out of control near the Nepean Bridge yesterday, and Crashed into a big pine tree. The impact…

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Boxing Boxer Injured. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 June 1923 · page 1

Cyril Whittaker, heavyweight boxer, was defeated by Tom Heeney last night. The reference stopped the fight in the fifteenth round. After leaving the ring…

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Shooting Fatality. Youth Killed on Richmond

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 June 1923 · page 4

At South Gundurimba a lad, 16 years of age, named Thomas Bugden, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bugden, lost his life. The young follow on Monday…

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Young Woman Drowned. Fatality at Byron Bay

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 June 1923 · page 4

On Wednesday a drowning case occurred at Byron Bay, when a young, woman named Hilda Preadingham, aged 38 years, lost her life…

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Gaol Breaker. Sensational Escape. Dressed in Governor's Clothes Warder Seriously Injured. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 June 1923 · page 5

A convict, Charles Baker, made a sensational escape from Norwich gaol. It is alleged that he attacked a warder with a heavy pickaxe handle…

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Riding Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 June 1923 · page 4

Mr. Thos. Sanstram, a well-known resident of Murwillumbah, met with an accident while riding home late on Saturday night. His horse ran into a…

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Fatal Motor Accident. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 June 1923 · page 5

A shocking accident occurred at Glenskirchen, where a lorry in which were seven French soldiers collided with the walls of a bridge and fell…

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Railway Accident. Six Killed; Twenty Injured London

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 June 1923 · page 3

At Verviers a coach of a train was derailed, six being killed and twenty injured…

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Frightful Scalding. Fatality at Freezing "Works. Blayney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 June 1923 · page 5

Frightfully scalded from the waist downwards, through falling into hot water from an underground pipe at the Country Freezing works yesterday,…

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Trucks Buffet Car. Level Crossing Accident. Man's Remarkable Escape. Taree

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 June 1923 · page 5

Through the gateway at an unattended Tares level crossing boring open while the train was passing, a motor ear, containing two men, collided with some…

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Burning Accident

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 13 June 1923 · page 2

Little Ellie Stephenson, the seven-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. Stephenson, had a near escape from being burnt to death on Friday evening…

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Car Accident at Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 June 1923 · page 4

A sensational motor car smash, fortunately unaccompanied with loss of life, occurred on the bridge near the Standard Sawmilling Company's yards,…

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