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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

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Collision in Oxide-street Motor Cyclist Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

Leonard Frederick Flack (21), residing in Qxide-street, was admitted to the Hospital on Near Year'a Eve suffering from heed injuries caused by…

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Two Boys Drowned Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

The bodies of two lads, Reginald and Edmond Worn, were found in the Yarra weir at Healesville yesterday. The lads disappeared during the…

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Drowned at a Picnic Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

Walter Batty (37), of North Geelong, disappeared in the breakers when swimming towards the beach at Bream Creek. The body was washed ashore…

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Burning Fatality Middle-aged Woman Succumbs to Injuries

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 2

Jane Marita (40), a spinster, who resided alone at 55[?] Lane-street. North Broken Hill, died in the Hosp[?]tal early on Sunday morning from…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured. by Unknown Motorists Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

John Hunter (22), of Hartley, was riding a cycle near Mount Victoria yesterday afternoon when a motor, car dashed into him. Hunger was thrown…

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Little Roy Injured by a Tramway Bus Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

While standing on the Esplanade near Largs Bay jetty to-day Norman Hales (7). of Rosewater, was struck by a tramway bus. He suffered a…

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Motor Buses Collide on Keswick Road 4 Persons Slightly Injured. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

Four persons were slightly injured in a motor bus collision on Anzac Highway, Keswick, this afternoon as a result of one vehicle bumping into the…

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Motor Car Overturns Two Occupants Found Dead and Another Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

A motor car was found overturned at Mallacoota on Sunday. Two of the occupants, William and Norman Clarke, were dead, and George Harding was…

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30 Persons Were Injured in Sydney on New Year's Day Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

A number of holiday accidents occurred in the metropolitan area on New Year's Day. At Banksia a motor car overturned…

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Fatalities and Accidents Rider of Motor Cycle Killed on Windsor-road Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

Francis Williams (25), of Haberfield, was fatally injured and Thelma Smith (20), of Marrickville, a sidecar passenger, was critically injured when a cycle…

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Men Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

Joe Nugent, when working at the Central mine this afternoon, got his right hand caught in the cogs of some machinery, the hand being badly…

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Girl Reported Drowned. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

The police are dragging Georges River, at Bankstown, for the body o[?] Norma Boland who is believed to have been drowned there yesterday. She…

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Motorists Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

A motorist who was proceeding along the Great Western-road, Prospect, late yesterday swerved to the side of the road to avoid a collision and his car…

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Double Drowning Case Father and Son the Victims Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

[?]nard Hocking (45) and Frank Hocking, his son aged 12 years, were drowned at Chelsea yesterday. Four members of a bathing party got into…

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Queensland Injured While Diving Rockhampton

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

In attempting to avoid another boy Lesti[?] Scott. (15) dived vertically from a springboard at the city baths with such force that he struck the bottom…

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Young Woman Injured When Motor Car Capsizes

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

Bolting down Wheeler's Hill, near Oakleigh, on Monday, a motor car, containing Mr. Thomas Smyth, his wife, three children, and a girl friend,…

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Two Women Are Injured When Thrown From Sulky

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 2

Messrs. J. Everuss and A. T. Dunstan, and Misses Ettie James and Mollie Wade were thrown from a sulky at Stephens Creek yesterday…

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Accident on Creek Road Woman Taken to Hospital

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 2

Mrs. Rose Williams, a widow, residing at North Broken Hill, is at present an inmate of the Hospital, where she is being treated for injuries suffered…

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Fatality at Mullumbimby Mullumbimby

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 1

The body of Alderman Mick Stapleton was found on the railway line by a fettler yesterday morning with the top of his hea[?] completely served. It…

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Man Saves His Grandson From Drowning in River

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 2

Scout-Commissioner J. W. Gibson, who was giving swimming lessons at the Crawley Beach, on the Swan River, went to the rescue of a…

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