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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Town Destroyed by Flood Waters Forty Drowned

Western Age · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 3

BOGOTA (Colombia), Wednesday. Forty are believed to have been drowned and more than 100 injured in the practical destruction of the town…

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Town Destroyed by Flood Waters Forty Drowned BOGOTA (Colombia)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 1

Forty are believed to have been drowned and more than 100 injured in the practical destruction of the town of Seville in the Department of Cauca…

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Train Crashes Nine Killed; Many Injured BRUSSELS

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 1
Also in Western Age

When a workmen's, train from Ghent crashed into a derailed engine near Enghein nine were killed and many injured…

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Did All They Could Channel Air Disaster Australians Drowned LONDON

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 1
Also in Western Age

Officials from the Air Ministry and Imperial Airways examined the wreckage of the air liner City of Ottawa, which crashed in the English Channel and now lies on the beach at Dungeness. Newspaper correspondents state that…

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Minister Killed in Car Smash Wife's Critical Condition Distressing Fatality on Coonamble Road

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 1

Leslie R. Bensley, Methodist Minister of Gilyandra, was killed and his wife seriously injured when the car in which he was riding capsized on the Dubbo-Coonamble road at midday on Tuesday…

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Minister Killed in Car Smash Wife's Critical Condition Shocking Fatality on Dubbo-Coonamble Road

Western Age · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 3

Leslie R. Bensley, Methodist Minister of Gilgandra, was killed and his wife seriously injured when the car in which he was riding capsized on the Dubbo-Coonamble road at midday on Tuesday…

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Motor Accident on Coonabarabran Road

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 5

A very nasty car accident occurred on Monday last, when an Essex car, driven by Mr. Mark Jones struck a huge stone weighing between 5 and…

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Car Accident. Methodist Minister Killed. Wife's Critical Condition. Distressing Fatality on Coonamble Road

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 2

Leslie R. Bensley, Methodist Minister of Gilgandra, was killed and his wife seriously injured when the car in which he was riding capsized…

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Stationmaster Killed Wife and Friend Injured Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 1

Arthur Ernest Taylor (56), a stationmaster, was killed, and his wife, Henriette Taylor (54), and William Taylor (67) injured, when a motor car…

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Sad and Shocking Motor Fatality Brother Bensley's Sudden Death Methodist Minister from Gilgandra Killed Loved and Respected by All

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 4

Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes Clelestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise…

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Railway Accident Train Crashes into Landslide Wellington (N.Z.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 1

The New Plymouth-Wellington express ran into a landslide three miles on the Wellington side of Packakarici. The engine and three carriages were…

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Motor Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 1

The condition of Mrs. Bensley, who was seriously injured in the fatal motor smash last week, when the Rev. Bensley, of Gilgandra,…

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Motor Fatality Kiama

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 2

When a motor car capsized [?] Kiama, Joseph Francis Love [?] was killed. It is believed a [?] blew out and caused the car [?]…

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Injured Whilst Wrestling

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 June 1929 · page 8

Jack Guy (32), who resides at the Royal Hotel, Yeoval, was having a friendly wrestling match with another man, when he fell and injured…

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NOTES 0' NYNGAN Motor Car Accident the Water Problem District Rest Room

Western Age · Thursday 27 June 1929 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. Saunders arrived in Nyngan last week after receiving medical attention at Narromine consequent upon meeting with a car accident as…

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Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 27 June 1929 · page 6

When Jim Teency (12) fell from a heap of chaff bags on Tuesday he dislocated his right ethow and was taken by the ambulance to Dr. Hurrey, who…

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Painful Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 27 June 1929 · page 6

J. Alyward (37), of Parkes-road, near Walmer, was carting a log in a spring cart the other day, a stump wheel of the vehicle 'at ruck a slump…

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Notes O' Nyngan Motor Car Accident the Water Problem District Rest Room

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 27 June 1929 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. Saunders arrived in Nyngan last week after receiving medical attention at Narromine consequent upon meeting with a cur accident as…

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