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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Old Glen Innes. Links with the Past. Serious Accident

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 5

On Tuesday last a young man named Charles Marsh, whilst working a threshing machine at Mr. Noble's farm, Stonehenge, became entangled…

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Man Drowned

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 4

Joseph Hughes, while bathing in the Hunter River, near Newcastle was drowned…

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Townsvtlle Shooting. Doctor Injured

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 4

At Lowth's Hotel, Townsville, on Saturday night, Dr. Bourke received a bullet wound in the right thigh. Stephen Lowth was arrested and…

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Team Jumps Rails. Fatality at Wallsend

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 4

A steam tram, at West Wallsend, struck an obstruction and jumped the rails,and rolled over and down a 15 feet embankment…

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An Injured Hand

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 4

On Monday last an unfortunate mishap befel Mr. C. W. Johnson, a young man employed at Mr. H. A. Tutt's joinery works. Mr. Johnson…

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Stonehenge Fire. Farm Produce Destroyed. Nearly a Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 4

Dr. W. C. Blessing, of "Indiana," Stonehenge, sustained the loss of a large quantity of farm produce last night an the result…

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Peculiar Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 9

When Rev. Mr. C. McLean, of Comboyne, was returning home just before sundown recently his car struck a wire across the road. Some teamsters were…

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Motor Collision. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 4

As the result of a collision between a motor car and a sulky at Pendle Hill, near Parramatta, last night, four persons were injured. The…

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Two Drowned. Undertow at Tuggerah. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 4

John Wills, officer in charge of the fire station at Burwood, and Miss Alice Doyle, aged 26 years, a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. Wheel in Tramline. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 4

John Lovelock Fry (86) an inspector in the War Service Homes Department, was riding a motor cycle, to which a side-car was attached, at…

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Explosion at Fire. Three People Killed. Sight-seers Frightfully Injured. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 4

A sensational occurrence took place at Coolgardie yesterday morning. A fire broke out on the premises of Mulligan and Kent, butchers, and…

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Double Drowning Tragedy at Tuggerah. Taken Out by Undertow

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 4

A double drowning fatality occurred at Tuggerah Beach, near Wyong, on [?] Sunday morning. John Wills, aged 37, [?] officer in charge of the Burwood fire…

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Car and Waggon Collide Two Persons Injured. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 4

At an early hour this morning a cotlision occured between a motor car and a milk waggon at St. Peter's, as the result of which the drive of the…

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Remarkable Train Accident. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 6

While the trans-Australian train was some distance from Tarcool a boiler tube blew out, completely extinguishing the fire in the engine…

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Fell From Tree Peg. Fatality at Moleton

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

The District Coroner (Mr. D. W. Reed, Police Magistrate), held an inquest at Glenreagh into the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert Patrick…

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Cablegrams. [Through Reuter.] Communist Battle. Many Persons Injured. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 1

A Prague Communist meeting protesting against the high cost of living, ended in a battle against the police. Thirty-eight civilians and eight…

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Shocking Fatality in Coal filme 100 DEAD. (Reuter's Cable). London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 4

Reuter's Dorlmund correspondent states at least one hundred miners are dead, having been gassed after the explosion of firedamp in the Stein…

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Shooting Accidents

The Uralla Times · Monday 16 February 1925 · page 2

A couple of shooting accidents occurred during last week. In the first case. Jack Ryan, son of Mrs M. J. Ryan of Bridge: St. Uralla, was…

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Distressing Fatality

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 4

A fatality surrounded by peculiarly prinful circumstances took place at Ganmain last Thursday. Mrs. John Carroll was at work in the laundry of…

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"Push" Fight. Several Men Injured

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 4

A street fight occurred in Oxford-st., Darlinghurst, last night, between two "pushes" during which bottles, life preservers, stones, and pieces of iron…

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