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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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A Fatal Accident, at Silo Works at Berrigan

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 30 September 1920 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon last, at about 4 o’clock. an accident occurred at the wheat silo construction works in the railway yard at Berrigan,…

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Motoring Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 32

An extraordinary motor smash occurred at Marrickvale. A car was negotiating a corner, at fair speed when the near front, tyre blew out. Then two children stepped…

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Silo Conrtruction Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 3

The victim of an accident at the [?] at silos at Berrigan, John Shelley, [?]ingle, died on Sunday morning. The evidence at the colonial inquiry on…

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Double Fatality on Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 32

An extraordinary accident, by which two men met their death, occurred on the railway line a few miles out of Binalong on Friday night. The men, whose names were…

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Mr. Hughes Injured. Fall Prom a Horse Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 4

The Prime Minister was thrown from a horse during a gallop in Centennial Parte to-day, but although he was rendered unconscious for three…

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Racing Fatality. Hurdle Race Rider's Death

The Independent · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 2

The Licensed Victuallers races on Friday were marred by an accident resulting in the death of Gordon Rupert Peacock, who received severs injuries while riding…

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Jockey’s Death. Hurdle Race Accident

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 October 1920 · page 2

Gordon Rupert Peacock, the jockey who was seriously injured when Benan[?] tell in the Hurdle Race on Friday last week at the L. V. Race Club’s meeting,…

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Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 October 1920 · page 3

An accident befel Mr. Jack Curtain on Saturday morning last while trying to stop a bolting horse, belonging to Jackson Bros., cordial makers. The…

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Child Drowned at Lavington

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 October 1920 · page 28

A sad drowning fatality occurred at Lavington on Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The victim was a baby boy named Edward George Davis, aged 18 months, son of Mr…

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Mysterious Drowning Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 October 1920 · page 28

The mysterious disappearance of Mr. Tobias Dalton, aged 43, a grazier and pastoralist of Wodonga and Howlong, was unravelled on Tuesday, when his body was…

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Death by Drowning. a Case of Suicide

The Independent · Friday 22 October 1920 · page 2

On Sunday last Mr H. McManus, licensee of the Victoria Hotel. North Deniliquin, reported to the police that a man named George Dewhurst, who had been boarding…

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Country Edition. The following appeared in our Country Edition on Wednesday. Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Accident to Express

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 October 1920 · page 1

The ordinary division of the express from Melbourne was delayed for a considerable time near Henty, as the result of the locomotive tender…

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Found Drowned

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 October 1920 · page 2

The disappearance of George Dewhirst from the Victoria hotel, North Deniliquin, was reported to the police by the licensee, Mr ,H. McManus, on…

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Wodonga Motor Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1920 · page 22

At the inquiry on Wednesday, Michael Hynes deposed that he was a passenger by a motor car which left Gundowring for Wodonga at 8 a.m. on Tuesday…

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Shocking Motor Tragedy. Woman Rilled at Wodonga. Two Other Persons Seriously Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 November 1920 · page 1

Mrs. Ford, wife of Mr. Joseph Ford, grapier and mall contractor of Gundowring (Victoris), and killed and two other persons were nervously injured in…

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Another Motor Fatality

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 November 1920 · page 2

A party of motorists were nearing Narellan when the car swerved in the roadway, and was overturned. One of the passengers was thrown…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Monday Evening Railway Accident in W.A. Eleven Men Killed

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 November 1920 · page 2

Eleven men were killed in a railway disaster in West Australia on Saturday. A timber train running from Mornington Mills to Wokaluo…

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Railway Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 November 1920 · page 2

The mangled body of Mr. Phillip Germanly, laborer, of Rutherglen, was found on Tuesday morning on the railway line, about two chains further up…

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Fishermen Drowned Wollongong

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 12 November 1920 · page 4

While fishing near Port Kembla yesterday afternoon three men were washed off the rooks and drowned. A fourth man of the party was…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 12 November 1920 · page 4

A party of motorists started on Sunday for a trip from Sydney, via Bowral. When nearing Narellan the car swerved, overturned and…

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