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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

429 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 13 of 22

D'Annunzio Injured United Service. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 August 1922 · page 2

Signor d'Annunzio wan injured somewhat seriously in the head as the result of a fail while walking. The bulletins are now more reassuring,…

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Painful Accident. Fell From Load of Wood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 August 1922 · page 2

Mr. Michael Drew, who resides near Marsden's bridge, on thp Kingsdale Road, met with a painful accident on Saturday afternoon. About 4 o'clock he…

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Serious Motor Car Accident

Young Witness · Thursday 17 August 1922 · page 2

At 11.30 on Sunday Mews. C. Ruth erford, Nicholas, G. Myers, James Collions, the owner, were driving in a motor car on the Murrumburrah road…

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A Riding Accident. Boy Impaled On'a Stump

Young Witness · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 1

An accident occurred early this week when a boy named Roy Light, aged 12, met with serious injuries to his leg. He was riding a pony at…

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Shocking Accident. Man's Terrible Injuries

Young Witness · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A Singleton message states that John Tobin had his thum b torn off, and his arm fractured, and the sinews of his wrist torn…

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Nine Persons Injured

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 2

Buffale, August 18.—As a result of the derailment of the Buffalo-Ni agra Fallsn train, nine persons were injured. The railway officials have…

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Fatality at G.P.O.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 4

There was a dreadful fatality at the General Post-office this morning, when Mr. L. F. Bell, 30, an engineer employed by the telephone department, fell…

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Char-a-Banc Fatality. Eight People Killed

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 2

LONDON, August 20.—A char[?] banc, conveying twenty-five people, was returning to Ashfor[?] in Kent, from Hastings, overturned in a ditch…

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Man's Neck Broken. Fatality at the G.p.o. Witnessed by Many Employees

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—A moniter employed in the telephone branch of the G.P.O., named Leslie Bell, aged 31, single, residing at Annandale, fell…

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Double Railway Accident United Service. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 2

A double railway accident occurred near Gravesend. A train had halted to put down passengers when an engine coming in the opposite direction dashed…

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M.l.a. Injured by Pepper

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 August 1922 · page 1

Brisbane Thursday.— Immediately after the tea adjounment of the Login lative Assembly to-night. Mr. A. E. Moore was found at the door of the…

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Nearly a Drowning Fatality

Young Witness · Tuesday 29 August 1922 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Three members of the Water Police on the skiff Pacel, at an early hour yesterday morning found Frank Larsen, [?] coal…

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Old Man Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 August 1922 · page 4

Frederick Platt, who was an inmate of the Old Man Home at Parramatta, was found drowned yesterday in the river. The body had evidently been in the…

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Jockeys Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 August 1922 · page 4

Two accidents occurred at the show meeting of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club on Saturday. The well-known jockey, A Hyland, sustained painful injuries to…

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Shooting Fatality. Tragedy Near Crookwell

Young Witness · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 3

A report from Crookwell announced the death of Mr Cecil D[?]ing, at Redground near Crookwell. He was found at his house with a shot [?]…

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240 Drowned United Service. VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 1

Two hundred and forty people were drowned when the Chllian steamer Itata capsized and sank in rough seas off the Island of Choras, north of the…

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Accident to Aubrey Garland

The Yass Courier · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 4

Mr Aubrey Garland mat with a had accident this morning. He was loading telephone poles on a dray, when one dipped and struck his foot,…

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Accident at Sacred Heart Convent

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 2

Sister Phillip, of the Sacred Heart Convent, North Goulburn, who is liable to attacks of somnambulism , fell from a balcony of the institution this…

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Shooting Fatality

Young Witness · Saturday 2 September 1922 · page 3

ALIBURY.—Late on Wednesday afternoon a fatality occurred on a farm near, Albury, when Rene Data, a daughter of Mr. John Dale, was…

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Funds for Church Tower. Drowned Man's Bequest a Shilling for His Wife

Young Witness · Saturday 2 September 1922 · page 6

Charles Warne Smith, late of South Molong, journalist, whose body was foued in Plenty River, on 4th June last, left the residue of his…

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