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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Men Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

The following accident cases were treated at the outpatients' department of the Hospital during the week-end and to-day:—Arthur Mashford,…

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Sydney Motor Smash Five Persons Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

The "Advertiser" reports that as the result of a motor smash at East Greta on Friday night the following persons were injured:-…

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Youth Badly Injured by Wheel of Dray Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

Robert Day (19), of Gawler, fell under a dray loaded with sand on Saturday, a wheel passing over his body. He was taken to the Adelaide…

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Tram Leaves Rails Enginedriver Is Killed and Women Injured Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

The driver of a steam tram, A[?]red M[?] (56); was killed and three women, Mrs. Arthur Talbot, Mrs. W. Little, and Mrs. Thomas Odder, were…

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Motor Car Overturns Woman Passenger Killed and Husband Injured Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

Mrs. Ada Elizabeth Lingham (55) was killed and her, husband, John Graham Lingham (60), a farmer, of Rupanyup, was seriously injured when…

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Fatalities and Accidents Falling Tree Kills Man in Victorian Storm Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

Alfred Drury (41), a m[?]k[?]and, was killed instantly when a tree under which he was sheltering fell on him during a storm on Saturday. Two…

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Death of Mr. J. F. Williams Accidental Death Is Finding of Coroner

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

The inquest was resumed this afternoon into the death of John Frederick Williams, who died from injuries suffered in a collision between a motor…

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Collision at Sea Off Coast of Greece British Light Cruiser and Italian Tanker (A.p. A. Message.) London, January 22

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 1

The Admiralty reports a collision between H.M.S. Caledon (a light cruiser of 4120 tons) and the Italian oiltanker Antares in the Doro…

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Accidental Death of Victorian Farmer

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 3

George Samuel Frowd, farmer, of Girgarra, in the north-east of Victoria, was fatally shot when the charge in a sum which he was carrying exploded…

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Student Offers Help in Case of Accident Victim Was Mother

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 2

Stepping from a tram at the scene of an accident in Fitzroy-street, St. Kilda, on Sunday afternoon a young medical student asked if he could give…

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Mine Worker Injured

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 2

L. Tizran suffered lacerations to the scalp through being struck by the rebound of a hammer while working on the 1100ft. level of the Junction North…

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Thrown From a Horse Farmer Badly Injured Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 1

Mr. Ned M'Gauron, a grazier of the Gippsland district, was thrown from his horse and impaled on a barbed wire fence. He suffered…

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Trams in Collision Three Persons Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 3

Three tramway employees were injured when two electric trams collided head on near Crawley yesterday. The injured were:-…

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Drowned at Peterborough

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 4

Joseph E. King, the eight-year-old son of Mr. Joseph King, a railway employee, was drowned about noon on Monday at the ballast pits, where he,…

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Men Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 3

The following accident cases were treated at the outpatients' department of the Hospital last hight and to-day:—Thomas Phillips, wine and…

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Collision of Motor Cars

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon a collision occurred in Argent-street between a motor car driven by Mr. W. Schmidt and another driven by Mr. L…

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Fatal Motoring Accident Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 3

Kathleen Byrne (16) was last night a passenger on a motor cycle driven by Ernest William Cornwall. When passing Warwick Farm racecourse the…

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Six Persons Injured in Motoring, Smash Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 1

Six persons were injured when a motor car overturned after striking a telegraph pole near Cronulla late last night. Cornelius Langsery (46)…

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Explosion in a Mine Trucker Badly Injured Hobart

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 1

While Cecil Pickans, with another man named M'Kenzie was engaged trucking on the 925ft. level at the North Lyell mine, a charge of…

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Death Prom Drowning Is Finding of Coroner Police Court Proceedings Are to Continue Wednesday Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 1

The principal witness called when the inquest was resumed to-day was Ema Lena Jordan, mother of the dead woman, who said that at times Hamil,…

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