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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Fell Into River. Paris-Bordeaux Express. 5 KILLED, 30 Injured Broken Coupling Causes Disaster. Paris

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 5

Five were killed and thirty injured when three carriages of the Bordeaux Paris express dashed over a viaduct and fell into the river Clain at Poitiers, 61…

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Fatal Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 4

A carter named W. Campbell lost his life at South Woodburn in an unusual manner. He was in a cart near Mr. Taylor's store, when his horse suddenly moved…

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Collision at Melbourne. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 3

During the Aspendale motor races B. Jones and G. Gower came into collision in the open side car handicap. The side car of Jones machine broke away, and…

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Young Woman Drowned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 3

Ethel Ayton, 21, was found drowned in a waterhole adjacent to her parents residence at Eastern Creek, near Penrith. She had evidently gone to the dam for water…

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Hurdle Jockey Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 1

J. Hayes, hurdle jockey, was taken to St. Vincent hospital this morning suffering from concussion of the brain. He was injured at Randwick while exercising a…

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Jockey Cooper Seriously Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 1

The successful Victorian jockey, A. Cooper, who recently won the Oakleigh Plate on Adrift and the Victorian Sires Produce Stakes on Poetaster, was…

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Two Seamen Drowned Tragedy at Lighthouse. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 3

A wireless message was received to-night stating that while a boat from the Government steamer Lady Loch was taking stores to the lighthouse at Cape…

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Accident at Circus

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 2

Through a tier of the gallery seats collapsing at a circus performance at Rockhampton on Thursday, 300 people were hurled to the ground. A girl was…

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Accident at Briggsvale

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 2

A distressing accident betel Roy, the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Briggs, at Briggsvale on Sunday morning last. The little chap was…

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Local and General an Unusual Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 4

While working on a building at Mooloolaba Arthur Will slipped, and his chin struck the railing, and almost severed the top of his tongue…

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Tram Accident Injured Man Gets £400. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 5

In the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice James and jury, William Feather be brought an action against the Railway Commissioners claiming £1000 damages for…

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Motorist Charged Five Dock Fatality. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day Joseph Patrick Boland (28), who had been charged with feloniously slaying Mr. and Mrs. Gurr, who were killed…

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Fifty Soldiers Drowned Pontoon Bridge Collapses. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 5

The collapse of a pontoon bridge erected by pioneers at Weser, between Veltheim and Hausberge, resulted in the drowning of numerous Reichswehr sold…

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Diver Drowned Life Line Severed. Broome (W.a.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 5

A Japanese pearl diver named Suketaro lost his life in unusual circumstances. While below the life line fouled coral rocks, and was severed. The air pipe…

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N.Z. Motor Fatality. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 5

Bruce Graham and his wife were fatally injured through their motor car upsetting at Horptlu. Their young daughter also sustained a fractured skull,…

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Strange Fatality Supposed Sleep-walker's Death Cowra

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 5

John Corbett (45) was found early this morning lying badly injured in front of the Railway Hotel. Corbett said that he was apparently walking in his sleep,…

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Drowned at Sea. Miss Mary Sturgeon. Sydney

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 3

Miss Mary Sturgeon the well-known English authoress, was drowned overboard from the steamer Moreton Bay north of Tasmania. The…

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Daylight Train Fatality Workman Killed on Line. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 5

A man named Duncan McArthur, 53, of Yeronga., was picked up alongside the line near the Yeronga railway station this morning with a large lacerated wound in…

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Senator Gardiner Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

Senator Albert Gardiner was knocked down by a motor car as he was crossing Oxford street, city, to-day. He was slightly injured and after treatment at…

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Railway Employee Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

John Morgan, railway employee,, received terrible injuries at the Stuart Town railway station, near Wellington, yesterday morning. He was engaged in…

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