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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Fatality in Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 February 1922 · page 4

Mr. William Alderson (58), of Leah-street, Forestviile, who was admitted to the Adelaide Hospital on January 19 suffering with a fractured skull and…

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Lieutenant Parer Crashes When Near Kalgoorlie Pilot and Cousin Injured Perth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 February 1922 · page 1

Lieutenant Parer and his cousin, Mr. Mark Parer, were flying from Kalgoorlie to Perth when the machine struck a telegraph post near Kalgoolie, fell,…

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Motor Car Fatality

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 1

Edward Harrop, an elderly Gippsland farmer, was killed on Tuesday through the motor car in whicn he was riding overturning (says a report…

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Girl Bather Drowned

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 1

While bathing in the surf at Lorne, Victoria, a popular seaside resort, on Tuesday, a party of seven was caught by the undertow, and swept into the…

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Rescue Boat Overturned Names of the Drowned

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 1

A later message states that there were about 100 people bathing near the river entrance. Not knowing the dangerous nature of the currents…

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Six Bathers Drowned Surfing Fatalities Caused by Undertow Picnickers in Difficulties Auckland

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 1

A surf tragedy occurred at Greymouth yesterday. A big picnic party from Reefton visited the port and a large number…

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Accidents and Injuries

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 1

C. Pitman, while at work on the North mine last night, had one of his thumbs severely cut as the result of his hand coming into contact with a…

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Surf Bathing Fatality

Western Grazier · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 2

The surfing competitions at Googee on Saturday last were abandoned owing to one of the competitors being taken by a shark. The victim was…

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Air Fatality Crash at Mildura 1 Man Killed and 1 INJURED Mildura

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 2

Sydney Biekeley Nettleton, a horticulturist, was killed and Campbell Ludbrook received internal injuries and injuries to the head in an aeroplane…

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School Teacher Drowned Is Seized with Cramp While Swimming Creek Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 2

While swimming in a creek at Fernhurst, Victoria, Stella Osmond, a school teacher, was seized with cramp and drowned…

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Boxing Jimmy Wilde Injured (Reuter's Message.) London, February ll

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 February 1922 · page 3

Jimmy Wilde, the world's flyweight boxine champion, was thrown from his horse while hunting yesterday, and cut an artery an his leg…

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Woman Shot Dead Assailant Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 February 1922 · page 1

At Thames, near Wellington (New Zealand), Gladys Hutchinson (30) has died of frightful wounds, and Arthur William Page (33), said to be an…

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Injured at the Mine

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 February 1922 · page 2

Through a part of a machine falling on him George Hefford had his right foot badly cut while he was worining in Marshall's shaft section of the…

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Coulburn Quarry Fatality Second Victim Dies Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 February 1922 · page 4

Frederick Rankmoor, another victim of the Goulburn quarry fumes, died this morning. This is the second death reported in…

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Affairs in Ireland 18 Children Injured by Bombs at Belfast 2 Dead and 3 DYING 24 Casualties in 24 HOURS (Reuter's Message.) London, February 14

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 February 1922 · page 1

Three bombs thrown in Belfast to-day injured 18 children. Two are dead and three are dying and the remainder are in hospital…

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Fatal Accident At-quarry

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 February 1922 · page 4

A fatality occurred last Tuesday at Heywood, near the south-eastern border, at Messrs. Thomas and Son's lime works (reports the "Register")…

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Bathers Drowned

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 February 1922 · page 2

On Sunday Robert Goldie, aged 9 years, living at 13 Finlay-street, Albert Park (Victoria), went to bathe in the sea at the foot of Mills-street with a…

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Injured at the South Mine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 February 1922 · page 2

Last night E. Rogers, employed on the 800ft. level of the South mine, had his fingers jammed between two trucks. Mr. Rogers was removed in the motor…

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Hungarian Wedding Party Plunged Into Ice-cold River 25 Persons Drowned (Reuters Message.) London, February 15

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 February 1922 · page 4

Reuter's Budapest correspondent reports that a wedding party in five carriages was crossing the frozen River Theiss, near Szegedin, when the ice…

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Women and Children Drowned Four Lives Lost Sulky Goes Into River Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 February 1922 · page 1

Near Woodburn, on the Richmond River, on Wednesday night Mrs. Roy Dagg and her two children and her husband's sister met their deaths…

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