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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

417 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 21

Train Smash. Many Killed, Scores Injured Passenger Trains Collide

Young Witness · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday.—A Chicago message says it is reported that between thirty and forty people were killed and scores injured in the wreck…

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Straying Stock Nuisance Clearing Shire Roads. Motor-cycle Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 4

The question of straying stock was discussed at the Mulwaree Shire Council meeting on Tuesday. Cr. Henderson referred to the recent…

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Motor Car Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 3

An accident, which was fortunately unattended by serious results, occurred in Albury-street, Murrumburrah, on Saturday…

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Boy Drowned. Frightened Child Hides Dead Boy's Clothes Liverpool

Young Witness · Saturday 5 March 1921 · page 2

Arthur George, aged 9 years, was drowned in a waterhole yesterday. According to the police story, d[?]used and some other children were…

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Plane Accident. Passengers Narrowly Escape. Casino

Young Witness · Saturday 5 March 1921 · page 2

A Bristol aeroplane, owned by Robinson Bros., of Grafton, which was making passenger flights yesterday, came to grief. One of the wheels…

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Big Train Wreck. 14 KILLED, 32 Injured Vancouver

Young Witness · Tuesday 8 March 1921 · page 1

The United Press representative at Vera Cruz states that 14 were killed and 32 injured in a train wreck caused by strikers disconnecting the air…

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Hundreds in Peril. Express Trains Miss Collision. Driver Asleep. Wellington, (N.z.)

Young Witness · Tuesday 8 March 1921 · page 2

A head on collision between two express trains was narrowly averted on the North Island trunk line. Each oppress was travelling at between…

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British Steamer Wrecked 800 Chinese Reported Drowned Captain Evans' Gallantry. Hong Kong., March 9

Young Witness · Saturday 12 March 1921 · page 1

The United-Press Correspondent in Hong Kong states that Captain Evans of the British steamer, Carlisle, who was a member of Captain Scott's…

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Drowning Accident a Boy’s Foolish Action

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 6

A boy named Charles George was drowned whilst bathing in a waterhole at Fairfield on March 3. Four boys Went in swimming and George…

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Father and Son Drowned

Young Witness · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Monday.—A flshing boat Was caught in a squall and silnk at Auckland. The owner, Dale Spencer, and his five year old…

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Drowned at a Picnic

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 March 1921 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—At a picnic organised by the Croydon Prersbyterian Boys' Club yesterday afternoon, Miss Elleen Cangless, 20, of Croydon…

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Drowning Fatalities

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 4

Wilfred Burgess, 31, of Redforn, was washod off tho rocks and drowned [?] Long Bay yesterday. The body has not been recovered…

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Man Drowned

Young Witness · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 2

SYDNEY.—A boat contaiuing a man [?] three youths was capsized at Cronulla. The man whose name is believed to be Green, was drowned,…

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Cyclist Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 3

C. Morrison, one of the motor cyclists injured during the racing on Saturday, is still an inmate of the District Hospiltal, to which institution…

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Drowned Whilst Dath[?]nc

Young Witness · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 3

While bathing off Neilsen Pork on Saturday afternoon. Alderton S[?]ith of Entnore Road. Entnore, collapsed through heart failure, and was…

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The Injured Jockeys

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 2

All the jockeys but Mooney 'who [?] with the accident at Randwick yesterday show signs of improvement, [?] Mooney's condition is still very [?]…

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Jockeys Seriously Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1921 · page 2

Seven horses fell in the Nursery Handicap for two year olds, and all the jockeys were injured. There riders, namely Johnson, Sleigh, and Connel,…

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Big Explosion Ten Killed; Fifty Injured. Many Homes Wrecked. Vancouver, March 29th

Young Witness · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 1

A Chicago message states that 10 persons were killed and fifty injured as well as many homes destroyed by an explosion which wrecked the W[?]…

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Death Results From Accident

Young Witness · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 2

COROWA—The death occurred on Tuesday of (Mr. Robert Saines, a pioneer of Wahgunyah. About a fortnight ago deceased was in charge…

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Motor Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 4

Mr. Trevanion, senior, died on Monday morning at Nowra as a result of being thrown from a motor car in the main street on Friday evening. The driver…

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