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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Motor Car Crashes Into Telegraph Post Two Women Injured Melbourne, Monday 1

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 February 1925 · page 4

A motor car driven by Hector Lemard, of Highett, and containing Misses Myrtle and Ethel Seymour; crashed into a telegraph post through the…

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Motor Car with Six Men Crashes Into a Tree Two Occupants Injured Hay

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 February 1925 · page 1

On Saturday a party of six local sportsmen while proceeding to the Leeton races by motor car had a miraculous escape from serious…

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Trainees Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 2

R. Harwfl, of Cobden-street. Kew, and H. A. Burmeister, of Eglinton-street, Kew, members or the 39th Battalion, were seriously injured while…

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Child Drowned Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 1

At Mannum on Friday afternoon Geoffrey Dodd, 2 years of age, was reported missing from home. The body was found in the river. It is unknown…

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An Injured Shoulder

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 1

J. Catalano had his shoulder injured through being jammed between two trucks while working on the 1000ft. level in Thompson's shaft at the British…

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Motor Cycle Overturns One Passenger Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 2

Early on Sunday morning, Mr. G. Thomas was returning from Stephens Creek on a motor cycle, carrying Mr. E. Wayland in the sidecar and Mr. C…

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Trams Collide Three Women Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 1

A tram smash occurred in Belmore Park, near the Central Railway Station, this morning. The driving gear of one tram went wrong and ran back…

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Thrown From a Sulky Two Men Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 2

Anthony Zaponich, who resides at 333 Wilson-street, South Broken Hill, was admitted to the Hospital this morning suffering from a broken right leg…

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Train and Motor Car Come Into Collision Two Men Out to Pieces, Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 1

Two men in a motor car collided with a train on the South-road crossing, between the Hilton and Richmond stations, at 10.30 o'clock to-day…

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Train and Motor Lorry Come Into Collision (Continued from Page 1.) Later Details Given. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 4

When the 10.10 a.m. train from North Terrace to Glenelg reached the South-rood crossing, between the Hilton and the Richmond stations to-day,…

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Cycling Accident

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 2

Mr. C. Blombery was cycling down Beryl-street last night carrying his wife as a passenger. When near the bowling green the bicycle skidded in…

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A Motoring Fatality Constable's Allegations Passengers Were Drunk Verdict of Accidental Death Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 1

The inquest into the death of Mr. Ebenezer Baker, as the result of a motor car accident on the Brighton-road, when J. W. H. T. Douglas, an…

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A Harbor Collision Master of Launch Fined

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 1

"I am satisfied that defendant Thomas Griffiths, is guilty of breaking the regulations. He is fined £2, and must pay £7 15/6 costs. The…

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A Premature Explosion Contractor Injured Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 1

Frank Howard, a contractor, was working, in an Sft. sewerage shaft yesterday afternoon at Thornbury when a premature explosion occurred…

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Death of Young Woman Follows Motor Collision Coroner's Verdict Perth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 1

The inquest concerning the death of Miss Hazel Trowbridge (19), who was killed in a collision with an unlighted and abandoned motor car while riding…

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Accident at British

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 4

H. Kruchew[?]ki had his hand jarred while working at the British mine to-day[?] He was attended to at the mine by Dr. Hains, and then conveyed in…

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Motoring Fatality Two Men Reported Killed and Another Injured Perth

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 1

A message received last night from Bunbury stated that a motor car driven by George Haythorne crashed into a tree near Nannup, and that two man…

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Men Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 4

John Robertson, sawyer's assistant at the Globe Timber Mils, was treated at the outpatients' department of the Hospital, to-day for a badly-crushed…

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Ship's Cook Drowned Washed Overboard at Sea Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 1

When the trawler Glbertsan was off Coalcliff on the south coast yesterday, a heavy sea washed the ship's cook, Francis Dickrich, overboard. A…

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Drowned While Fishing Dinghy Capsizes Wellington (N.Z.), February 18

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 1

Clarence Hubert Anderson was drowned when the dinghy from which he was fishing capsized at Summer Estuary to-day…

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