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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Railway Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 6

A young man named Roy Bose was the victim of a very serious shunting accident yesterday afternoon at Wellington. From information to hand…

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A Dreadful Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 5

A dreadful accident occurred to Mr. William Allen, a well-known and highly respected resident of Red Hill, near Manildra, on Wednesday week (says…

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Riding Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 6 February 1922 · page 2

A man named Cecil Hannelly had a narrow escape from serious injury through being thrown from his horse owing to a collision with a sulky in…

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Accident to Town Clerk

The Wellington Times · Monday 6 February 1922 · page 2

Mr. S. E. Marsden, Town Clerk, accompanied by Mrs Marsden and Miss Auld, was out driving in a sulky yesterday evening and was thrown out of…

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A Serious Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 7 February 1922 · page 2

A well known resident of Par-street, Wellington, named William Powyer, met with a very serious accident on Thursday afternoon. The facts to…

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Accident to School Boy

The Wellington Times · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 6

For some time attention has been repeatedly drawn to the danger of vehicles and riders on cycles driving and riding around street corners at a…

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The Fairview Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 3

At the inquest into the circumstances attendant on the death of James Chambers, at Fairview, near Narromine, the Coroner, Mr. T. R. Millar,…

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Motor Car Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 4

During last week at Pillign Mr. Harold Colless, of Bellevue, Come-By-Chance, met with rather a serious accident. From what we can learn it…

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Marvels of Water Pressure Accidents to Deep Sea Fish

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 February 1922 · page 8

An accident unlike anything else in Nature can and often does happen to fish which live in the depths of the ocean…

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A Motor Collision

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 February 1922 · page 2

A resident one day last week left his car in the street while he was transacting dome business and on returning found that tho rear mudguard had been…

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Accident at Cricket

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 21 February 1922 · page 2

While playing in a match in which Collie was engaging Bearbong, Mr. Bert Chisholm, of Pine Lodge, Collie, was beaten by a bumpy ball. He failed to…

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Accident at Loco Sheds

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 February 1922 · page 6

Mr. Arthur Honey, fitter at the Wellington railway workshops, met with a painful and serious accident yesterday afternoon. He was alighting from an…

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Quadruple Drowning

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 2

A tragic happening occurred at Coraki. Mrs. Dagg, Miss Dagg and the former's two children, aged 2 years and 10 months respectively, left town…

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200,000 Sheep Drowned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 2

Visitors to Rockhampton who travelled across from Winton to Longreach, give a vivid description of the ravages caused by the recent disastrous floods…

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Rescued From Drowning

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 28 February 1922 · page 1

A four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Tancred, of Narromine, fell off a bank into the Macquarie River on Sunday last. The kiddy gave a scream as…

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Two Brothers Injured

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 28 February 1922 · page 2

There is an old proverb which says: "Troubles never come singly." Mr. H. E. Morley, of Maryvale, is a gentleman who is likely to think there is some…

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Drowning Peaked

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 4

Mr. Peter Joseph Nies, a retired in specter of police, residing at Moss Vale, went shooting on Monday, and was to have returned at 3 o'clock, but failed…

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Quadruple Drowning

Western Age · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 1

A tragic happening occurred at Coraki. Mrs. Dagg, Miss Dagg and the former's two children, aged 2 years and 10 months respectively, left town…

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200,000 Sheep Drowned

Western Age · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 4

Visitors to Rockhampton who travelled across from Winton to Longreach, give a vivid description of the ravages caused by the recent disastrous floods…

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Run Down by Train Fatality at Locksley

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 7

The paper train from Sydney to Bathurst yesterday morning swept down oil two members of a stationary train at Locksley and killed both. The…

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