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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Drowning Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 4

A drowning fatality possessing unusually pathetic features occurred at Cralla on Wednesday. It appears that Horace Oswald Quick, aged 12 years,…

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Motor Fatality. Two Killed, One Injured

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 4

Samuel Kellett and Arthur Mailes were killed, and John Faulk seriously injured, when a motor car overturned at North Brighton, Victoria…

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Peculiar Fatality. Man Killed in Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 4

A message from Maryborough, Queensland, states that Robert Woods, aged 18, was found, unconscious in a train near Bundaberg, with his skull badly…

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Big Storm. Man And Girl Injured

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 4

The most destructive storm over known locally swept over Balranald yesterday afternoon. Several houses were unroofed and trees and fences…

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Accidents. Small Boys' Unlucky Day

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 1

Master Leslie Braund, 11, a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Braund, of Bundarra, was thrown from a horse on Sunday and broke his arm, sustaining a compound…

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Car Accident. Crashes Through Culvert

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 4

A motor car crashed through the railing of a culvert near Albion Park, turned completely over, and dropped into a gully below. The three…

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Avoid Accidents. By Routine Maintenance

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 6

Brakes belong to that small army of motor-car components of which it may be truthfully said in many instances that they "are out of sight and out…

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Local and General Mt. Mitchell Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1925 · page 4

On Monday afternoon the District Coroner inquired into the [?]stances surrounding the death of Mr. William Ru[?], at Mt. Mitchell, on…

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Smash at Central Station. Several Persons Injured

The Uralla Times · Thursday 15 January 1925 · page 2

Sydney, Wednesday.—A serious smash occurred at the Central Station shortly after six o'clock to-night when the rear portion of an…

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Sydney Train Smash Many People Injured. Heart-rending Scenes at Central Station. Wonderful Heroism of Injured. Second Smash Narrowly Averted. Sydney, Thursday, 8 a.m

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1925 · page 4

All Sydney was ho[?]fied by the news, which gained rapid currency last night, that a sensational " railway accident had occurred at the Central Railway Station. There was an immediate rush to the scene, and an…

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Telegrams. Sensational Railway, Accident No One Killed. But 16 Injured. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 6

A sensational railway accident occurred at the Central Railway. Station, Sydney, last night at 6.13. An empty train from. Ashfield to…

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Dangerously Injured. Ald. Fletcher Meets with Shothing Accident. Little Hops for His Recovery

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 12

IN the simplest possible manner the well-known Armidale alderman, Mr. A. H. Fletcher, met with an accident on Wednesday night,…

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Railway Collision Near Mortuary Station. Nineteen People Injured

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 10

A railwhy collision occurred at 6.30 o'clock on Wednesday night, almost opposite the Mortuary Station at Urgent-street, on the Sydney side of…

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Woman Drowned Escape From Hospital. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 4

The body of a married woman, Eunice Elurgeon, was found in the river at Cowra yesterday. The deceased, who was a patient in the local…

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Ald. A. Horner Fletcher Meets with Severe Accident. Slight Hopes of Recovery

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 4

Alderman A. Horner Fletcher met with a severe cycling accident on Wednesday evening, and is now in Nurse Gillett's private hospital, in a very…

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Driver Suspendeb Aftermath of Railway Accident. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 4

It is understood that the driver of the empty car train which collided with the passenger train at Central Station, has been suspended from duty…

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Girl Killed in Collision. Sydney, Holiday

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 5

Miss Rose Perm (ninteen) was killed instantly and two other persona seriously injured as a result of a collision between two motor cars…

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Four People Injured. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 5

Four people were more or less seriously injured, in a collision between two motor cars on the Great Western Road near Wentworthville…

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Shocking Accident on Train

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

A shocking accident, with a fatal termination, occurred on the Townsville mail train just before reaching Bundaberg on Saturday night, the…

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Week-end Mishaps. Many Car Accidents. Priest Killed

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 5

The week-end witnessed an unusual number of serious mishaps, in which car accidents figured prominently…

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