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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Motor Car Accident

Northern Star · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Through the capsizing of a motor car in the Glen Innes district yesterday, Mr. Dunston, District Grandmaster of the Oddfellows, was seriously in…

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Sad Motor Car Fatality

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

A particularly sad motor car fatality occurred about a quarter of a mile on the Doon Doon side of Uki on Friday afternoon at about 6 o'clock, when Mr. Jack Fitzhenry, a…

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Sad Motor Gar Fatality

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

A particularly sad motor car fatality occurred about a quarter of a mile on the Doon Doon side of Uki on Friday afternoon at about…

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Returned Soldiers Injured

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—During the journey of a number of returned soldiers from Melbourne Sergt. [?]oster sustained a broken arm and abrasions on the forehead, while…

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Boy Shot Dead. Pea Rifle Fatality. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 3

Keith Davis (14), visiting his uncle at Bathurst from Sydney, went with his uncle shooting with a pea rifle. The pair got separated and the boy was…

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Surfing Fatality. Battered About by the Waves. I

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—While bathing at Collatoy on Saturday evening two surfers were carried out in the undertow. One of them, James Frederick West, was drowned, the…

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Telegrams Surfing Fatality. Man Carried Out to Sea. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 3

James Frederick West was drawn out to sea and drowned on Saturday last whilst surfing at Collaroy beach…

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Unusual Accident. Soldier Sustains a Broken Arm. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

Two soldiers were struck on the arm while passing through a cutting approaching Liverpool in a returned soldiers' train yesterday morning. Each…

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A Riding Accident

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 January 1919 · page 4

Frank Higgins, son of Mrs. Higgins, of Little Keen-street, Lismore, was out riding on Sunday afternoon and whilst near the hospital on his way home his horse by some…

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Returned Soldier Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 5

KYOGLE, Wednesday.—A horse ridden by; a returned soldier named Ferris bolted yesterday. Ferris iras thrown, being badly injured. He was taken hospital, and has…

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Fatal Accident. Crushed by Steel Plates. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 3

A fitter employed by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company was fatally injured at Prymont to-day. Near where he was working some steel plates,…

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Motors in Collision

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 3

A serious accident occurred on the famous Seven-mile on the Grafton-Glen Innes road on Saturday morning (says Armidale "Express"). In broad…

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Gundurimba Ferry Accident. (Editor-"Star.")

Northern Star · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 6

Sir,—In your issue of 15th inst. appears a letter over the name of S. Harmon, Gungurimba ferryman, who, in hisevident nervous desire to escapethe consequences, makes…

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Motors in Collision

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 4

A serious accident occurred on the famous Seven-mile on the Grafton-Glen lnnes road on Saturday morning (says the "Armidale Express.") In broad daylight two cars…

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Serious Accident

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 2

While riding home on Tuesday afternoon Mr. Leo. Ferris, a returned soldier, who resides on Warrazambil Ceek, was thrown heavily to the…

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Accident To. Mail Steamer

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—The American mail steamer Sonoma, which left Sydney yesterday bound for Sail Francisco, is returning to Sydney in a crippled condition, a defect…

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Railway Accident

Northern Star · Monday 27 January 1919 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—J. J. Laurence, 36, of Parramatta, and his aunt, Mrs. Nestor, 55, of Sydney, were boarding a train at Strathfield, when both slipped and fell between the…

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Death by Drowning

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1919 · page 5

A sad fatality, presumably the result of heart failure, occurred in the Bellinger River close to Bellinger, when Joseph Brady, a groom,…

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Local Interest. Serious Accident

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1919 · page 2

If was reported yesterday that Mr. M. Burke, of, the telegraph construction branch, had met with a serious accident on the Tweed. No…

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Shot in the Head. a Gun Accident. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 January 1919 · page 2

The police report that a man named Hart was admitted to the hospital suffering from a gunshot wound received at North Sydney. He was at a camp…

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