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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Motor Car Accident

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

An accident which might very easily have been attended with serius consequences, occurred at the Great Western hotel, Dubbo, on Wednesday afternoon…

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Strange Diving Fatality

The Wellington Times · Monday 6 November 1922 · page 2

Edward Gunu, the 17-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Edward Gunn, of Stewart and Durham Streets, Bathurst, dived into the Macquarie River in…

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Farmer Terribly Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 6 November 1922 · page 2

A Cobbora farmer, Mr. George MeCormack, is in the Mudgee hospital Buffering from a fractured skuil and concussion of the brain, tho result of…

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Verdict of Accidental Death

The Wellington Times · Monday 6 November 1922 · page 2

The District Coroner Held an inquiry in the Court House on Friday morning into the death of the lad S[?] who was accidentally shot…

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A Fatal Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 9 November 1922 · page 6

Mr. Clarence Bourke, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bourke, of Quirindi, and grandson of Mr and Mrs. J. Bourke, senr. of Sydney, and Mr. and Mrs. W…

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Serious Accident Young Man Falls Over Balcony. His Skull Badly Fractured

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 November 1922 · page 4

On Saturday night last a young man named George Hudson was taken to the Wellington Hospital suffering from a fractured skull. Information as to…

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Riding Fatality Youth Killed at Elong

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 November 1922 · page 2

A terrible fatality occurred at Elong yesterday morning as a result of which a youth named Thomas McMillan, died in the Dubbo Hospital yesterday…

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Accident to Engine Driver

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 November 1922 · page 2

On Saturday Mr. J. Atkinson, engine driver, South Bathurst, met with a very painful accident at Wellington. He was putting an anti-leak…

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The Death of Cecil Hudson Verdict of Accidental Death

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 November 1922 · page 3

The inquest concerning the death of Cecil Hudson, who died from injuries received by falling over the balcony at the Commercial Hotel on Saturday…

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Burning Accident at Stuart Town

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 November 1922 · page 4

Mrs. Jacobson, a resident of Stuart Town, was brought into the District Hospital lust night, suffering severely from burns about the body and head,…

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Shocking Fatality

Western Age · Friday 1 December 1922 · page 4
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

Haran Howard, aged 19, wan killed on Saturday morning at Homer and Monett's sawmill; ut Powelltown, Victoria. The head sawmiller heard a…

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Serious Accident to Railway Driver

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 December 1922 · page 2

A serious acicdent occurred at the We1lington railway station on Friday last as a result of which a driver named Patrick Fletcher lies in the Dubbo Hospital…

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Sad Burning Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 December 1922 · page 7

The Wellington Coroner was informed of the said death of Mrs. Jacobsen, of Stuart Town, on Saturday last, the deceased being the victim of a…

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Engine Drivers' Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 December 1922 · page 8

A [?]ious accident occurred at the Wellington railway station on Friday last. Driver Patrick Fletcher, who resides in Dubbo, had taken a goods train…

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A Painful Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 December 1922 · page 8

Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon Mrs. Mack Furney, of Buuglegumbic, met with a painful accident at her residence. It appears that she slipped and…

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A Victim of the Storm Old Man Drowned

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 December 1922 · page 2

While the storm was at its height on Wednesday in Wellington and district, and people were jubilant at the great amount of good it would do as they…

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Drowning Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 12 December 1922 · page 2

On Monday afternoon Mr. Chas. Morley, of Geurie, was drowned in the washaway near the Pile bridge, about 2 miles from Geuri[?] Mr. Morley had started…

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Fatality at Crabtree Creek Motor Car Washed Away. Yesterday's Heavy Rains

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1922 · page 2

The rainfall yesterday afternoon was extraordinarily heavy between Eulomogo and Geurie. On all sides lowlying country was flooded, and soil was…

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Drowning Fatality at Geurie Mr. C. F. Morley the Victim. Geurie

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 December 1922 · page 6

The heavy rain experienced to the north of tho town on Monday afternoon last was responsible for the death by drowning of a very old and most…

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