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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

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South Australian Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 30 April 1926 · page 2

As the train from Angaston to Adelaide reached a crossing three miles north of Gawler on Monday afternoon, it collided with a motor car…

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Elands Fatality. Coroner's Inquest

The Northern Champion · Saturday 1 May 1926 · page 6

On Wednesday last, ut Messrs. Wallace and, Whitbread's sawmill, at Elands, he district coroner (Mr. G. B. Morris) held an inquiry concerning…

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Burning Fatality

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 May 1926 · page 2

On Sunday morning, during the temporary absence of her parents (Mr. and Mrs. A. Kyle, of Nulla Creek), a little girl not quite six years of age, was…

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Sao Burning Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 May 1926 · page 4

Sunday morning last, during a brief absence of her parents (Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kyle, of Nulla Creek) a little girl about 5½ years of age was sitting…

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A Recent Fatality Inquest at Elands

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 7 May 1926 · page 7

The District Coroner, Mr. G. B. Morris, J.P., held an inquiry on Wednesday into the death of William Curry, twenty years of age,…

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Burning Fatality

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 May 1926 · page 4

On Sunday morning, during the temporary absence, of her parents (Mr. and Mrs. A. Kyle, Nulla Creek) a little girl not quite six years of age,…

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Accidentally Killed

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1926 · page 5

WORD was received in Port Macquarie on Friday morning that Mr. J. Roods, of Bellangry, was accidentally killed in the bush there yesterday…

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A Pin-riddled G.r.l. Curious Accident and Consequences

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1926 · page 8

One year ago last May Miss Teresa Jensen, a shop assistant, was dressing the window. Both her hands wee busy, and her mouth was full…

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Motoring Fatality. Between Stroud and Raymond Terrace Mr. George McDONALD'S DEATH

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1926 · page 2

A shocking fatality occurred on the Stroud-road, about seven miles from Raymond Terrace on Sunday afternoon, when through a motor car…

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Accidentally Killed

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 11 May 1926 · page 2

Word was received in Port Macquarie on Friday morning that Mr. J. Roods, of Bellangry, was accidentally killed in the bush there the previous day by…

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Motoring Fatality. Between Stroud and Raymond Terrace. Mr. George Mcdonald's Death

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 6

A shocking fatality occurred on the Stroud-road, about seven miles from Raymond Terrace on Sunday afternoon, when through a motor car…

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Motoring Fatality. MR G. McDONALD'S DEATH

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 May 1926 · page 9

A shocking fatality occurred on the Stroud road, seven miles from Raymond Terrace, last Sunday afternoon, when through a motor car…

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Fatal Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 May 1926 · page 4

THE District Coroner, Thomas Maloney, Esq., J.P., held an inquiry at the Court House, Wauchope, on Friday, 7th inst., touching the death of Francis John Roods,…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 18 May 1926 · page 2

On Monday morning Mr. W. L. Thomas, head grocer at Mr. E. W. Moxey's Store, Wingham, was driving into Wingham from Strath[?]edar…

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200 Dead. Thousand Injured. Poland's Civil War. London

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 May 1926 · page 3

The Lembery newspapers report, says a Vienna message, that 200 were killed and a thousand wounded in the fighting there with machine-guns…

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A Bulga Accident. Carried Mate Two Miles

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 19 May 1926 · page 1

On the Bulga, Mr. G. Miller, accompanied by Mr. C. Green, of Bobin, near Wingham, had a team of bullocks operating round a steep…

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Victorian Railway Smash Three Dead, 46 Injured. Hour of Agony. Melbourne

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 28 May 1926 · page 2

While doctors, ambulance officers and, railway men hacked desperately into the ghastly wreckage of the train smash at Caulfield last night,…

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Horseman Drowned

The Northern Champion · Saturday 29 May 1926 · page 4

Harry Devereaux and his horse were drowned in the Wakool River, Victoria yesterday. The horse, still harnessed to the shafts of the linker, but dead,…

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Old Accident Recalled

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1926 · page 4

THE visit of Mr. W. S. Hume and his wife and daughter, who have just completed a pleasant holiday at Fort Macquarie, reminds one of the…

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Two Men Drowned

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 2 June 1926 · page 2

Robert Settle Jun., of Blaketown, a married man with seven children, and another man named Dargill, were drowned when their fishing boat…

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