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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Fatality on Spit Road a Driver Killed

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

As the result of a smash between a motor car and a road sweeper on Spit road this morning, George Curll, driver of the latter vehicle, received fatal injuries…

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Motor Cycle Mishaps. Young Couple Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

Owing to the back wheel of his motor bike skidding on the tramline at Newtown, Clarence Holbrook (22). and Ethel Slade (17) received serious injuries, the…

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Motor Casualties. Parramatta Road Again. Little Girl Killed Two Others Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

At a late hour last night a motor car driven by Anatole Ivanoff (30), waiter, of Parramatta, and containing three friends, ran into a young woman and…

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Police Constable's Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 5

While Constable Humphries was cleaning the radiator of a motor car at Paddington this afternoon, the vehicle suddenly started forward and jammed the…

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Motor Accident. Injured Constable Dies. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 3

Constable A. S. Humphries, who was seriously injured as the result of a motor accident, died at Darlinghurst yesterday in a hospital…

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Spit Road Fatality Charge of Manslaughter. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 5

As a result of a smash between a motor car and a road sweeper in Spit road, Mosman, when George Curll, driver of the latter vehicle, received fatal injuries, the…

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Level Crossing Disaster. Train Smashes Waggonette Two Killed. Three Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 5

A train when going through a level crossing at Bayswater, on the Ferntree Gully line, smashed a waggonette containing five people. James…

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Entangled in Jungle Accident to General Chauvel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 5

Lieut General Sir Harry Chauvel. while inspecting the position, on the coast eight miles from Darwin, for a site for the erection of guns, became…

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"Rendered Penniless" Sequels to Fatal Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 5

Shortly after he was married on September 14 last year, Victor Lindley, while driving his motor car along the Parramatta road ran down and killed Robert…

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Collision in Lancashire Conductor's Presence of Mind. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 5

A collision at Rockdale, Lancashire, dislocated a control box. Fortunately Sam Breadsley, conductor, kept his head and called to shrieking women and children to…

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Drowned in Clothes Boiler

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1925 · page 4

An extraordinary drowning accident occurred at Woolloongabba, Queensland, on Saturday, when Morris M. Hughes, aged 21 months, was drowned in water contained…

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Gun Accident at Wingham

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1925 · page 4

An accident happened on Tuesday afternoon of last week at Mr. D. Robinson's Furniture Emporium in Isabella street, Wingham. Mr. Robinson had engaged…

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Fatal Blasting Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1925 · page 4

Mr. Sam Phillips, ganger in charge of No. 6 tunnel on the construction works, Many Peaks to Monto section (Queensland), was killed owing to an explosion…

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Strange Fatality

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 2

Conrad Victor Rummery, aged 17, the son of a prosperous dairy farmer at Ambrose (Q.), on Tuesday afternoon walked with a younger brother to the…

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Telegrams. Found Drowned. Rhodes Scholar's Death. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 3

Allan Payne (29), the Tasmanian Rhodes scholar and civil engineer, was found drowned in the Macalister River, near Maffra. He had previously been to…

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Terrible Railway Smash. Spanish Excursion Train. 26 KILLED, 105 Injured Passengers Horribly Mutilated. Barcelona

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 3

Twenty-six were killed and 105 injured through the derailment of an excursion train. The train was travelling at a high…

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The Bayswater Accident. a Fourth Victim. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 3

Mrs. Emily Griffiths, whose husband was killed, on Monday in the Bayswater (Vic-toria) railway accident, died yesterday. She is the fourth victim of the tragedy…

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Tram Fatality. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 April 1925 · page 5

Henry White, aged 50, was crossing Rozelle street, Balmain, this morning when a tram struck him; he was badly injured and died a few minutes after…

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The Injured Jockeys

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 April 1925 · page 5

The condition of all of the jockeys injured in the Cup race was reported to-night to be improved…

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Local and General. Gloucester Fatality

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 April 1925 · page 4

Mr. T. J. Abbott was killed last Wednesday morning at Gloucester, through a fall from a horse. He was born at Kolodong, near Taree, about 56 years ago, but…

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