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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Painful Accident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 4

While engaged in driving a bullock team at North Bellingen on Wednesday last, Mr. F. D. Barnes met with a very painful accident, being crushed between…

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Fatality at Raleigh

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

The "Raleigh Sun" reports a distressing. accident at Raleigh:—"About 9 a.m. on Wednesday last, a boy named Cecil George McGuire, 16 years…

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Lift Accident. Youth Killed, Man Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 5

While working on a lift at a factory in Redfern to-day Norman Cowell, aged 19, and John Clark, aged 37. were badly injured owing to the lift falling a…

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Pinned Under Car. 2 INJURED, 3 Rescued. Vehicle Ignites and Explodes. Scone

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 5

John Woodley, of Tamworth, and Doris Stores, of Ashfield, are in the Scone Hospital in a critical condition as a result of a sensational motor accident on the…

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Telegrams Lift Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 5

While working on a lift at the factory of Electric Motors, Ltd., at Redfern, this morning, Norman Cowell and John Clark (37) were badly injured owing to the…

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Car and Van. Collision and Bolt. Three Persons Injured. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 4

A terrific collision occurred in Queen street at 2.30 this morning between a motor car driven by Carl Johnson and a sanitary waggon driven by Jack Hayter…

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Fatal Accident. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1924 · page 5

As a party was retrning in a motor car from Waterfall Gully, Burnside, last night, the steering gear locked and they plunged fourteen feet into the bed of the…

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Last Night Ashore. Firemen's Mad Prank. One Man Drowned Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 5

A mad prank on the part of four firemen of the steamer Osterley resulted in a tragedy to-night. The men were celebrating their last night ashore prior to…

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Crack Cyclist Injured. Sydney to Melbourne Record. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 February 1924 · page 5

Paul Remaley, the American crack motor cyclist who tried to break the Sydney to Melbourne record, crashed into a motor car near Gundagai and was badly…

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Car Smash. One Killed, Nine Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 5

Two motor cars collided in the Parramatta road this morning, with the result that one person was killed and nine others injured…

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Char-a-banc Smash Two Persons Killed, 15 Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 5

Two women were killed and 15 persons injured when a motor char-a-banc, overturned while on its way to a land sale at Mount Dandenoug. Mary Wright,…

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Overturned. Two Railway Carriages Excursion Train Smash Eight People Injured Two in Critical Condition. Bundaberg

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 5

A terrible accident occurred this morning shortly after 7 o'clock to an excursion train journeying from Mount Perry to Bundaberg…

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Crane Man Falls. Fatality in Macquarie Place. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 5

Thomas Price, aged 35, employed in the construction of a new building for the Bank of New South Wales in Macquarie place, was standing on the hooks…

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Avro Falls. Pilot Slightly Injured. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 2

An Avro aeroplane, piloted by Lieut. Denton, who had R. Taylor as a passenger, crashed yesterday near Vockburn, New Zealand. The machine was…

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Stolen Car. Over an Embankment. Nine Persons Injured. Two Men Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 5

A serious motor smash, as a result of which no fewer than nine men and women were injured, took place at Heathcote, about two miles from Sutherland,…

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Tweed Woman's Death. Brisbane Motor Fatality. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 5

Early on the night of May 19 of last year Mrs. Catherine O'Keefe, wife of a farmer of Bilambil, near Tweed Heads, arrived in Brisbane on a week's holiday,…

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Rugby Football. Substitutes for Injured Players. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 5

The Rugby League has decided that they cannot agree to the New South Wales suggestion to permit substitutes for players injured during the first half…

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Collision at Heads. Steamer and Pilot Boat. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 5

A sensational collision occurred at Sydney Heads this morning between the pilot steamer Captain Cook and the French steamer St. Joseph as the latter was…

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Two Men in Court. Sequel to Motor Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 5

A sequel to the sensational motor accident at Heathcote on Sunday, when nine persons were injured, was the appearance at Kogarah Court of Sydney…

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Painful Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 4

Mr. Alick McDonell, son of Mr. J. J. McDonell, of Cundle, Manning River, was the shocking accident at Coff's Harbor. He was fixing his motor…

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