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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Motor Lorry Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 2

While coming from Dubbo to Wellington in a motor lorry on Thursday afternoon, two men, named McCarthy and [?]. Waterhouse, met…

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Fatality Near Bogan Gate. Well-known Aviator Killed. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 1

Captain G. C. Wilson, aviator, was killed when his motor car overturned near Bogan Gnte between Trundle and Parrkes, last night. His mechanic…

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Wild Cattle in Street. School Children Injured. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 1

As the infant classics were being dismissed from the Wangaratta State School yesterday, a bull and four heifers which were being driven to the railway…

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Ghastly Trike Accident. Man Dragged Three Miles. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 1

George Quigley, a railway fettler, was returning to his home at Dorrigo on a motor tricycle. He fell off while running the machine down a grade. His…

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Midnight Accident Youth Thrown From Motor Cycle Foot Badly Injured

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 14 March 1929 · page 1

When Frank Gardiner (25) was thrown front his motor cycle on Sunday night, his foot was badly injured and be lay on the road…

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A Nasty Accident Gordon Mitchel a Victim

Western Age · Thursday 14 March 1929 · page 2

Mr. Gordon Mitchell, ton of Mr. W. Mitchell, of "Narwarre," met with a painful accident on Tuesday, while scrub-cutting…

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Accident at Weir

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 14 March 1929 · page 1

When J. Cooper fell off a plank where he was working at the weir, he had three of his ribs broken…

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Frightfully Injured. Fell Between Moving Carriages. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 March 1929 · page 1

Roy Brown (22) was frightfully injured last night when he fell between the carriages of a moving train near Clyde railway station. His right arm…

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Peculiar Motor Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 March 1929 · page 10

Helen Nasser, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Nasser, of Rankin-street, Forbes, had a narrow escape from serious injury last week…

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Victim of Drowning Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 2

The victim of the tragic drowning accident on Friday morning, was buried in the cemetery on Saturday. The funeral was conducted according to the…

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Local Jottings. Farmer Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 2

On Thursday last, while Mr. H. S. Anderson, of Suntop, was engaged carting a load of fencing posts to a haystack, he slipped and fell,…

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Drowned Gilgandra Woman Falls Into River Man's Grim Discovery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 1

The fully clothed body of a dead woman floating in the water was the grim sight which greeted a labourer when he went down to…

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A Painful Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 2

A man named Joseph H. Bellamy, aged 39 years, a resident of Ponto, and who is employed as a labourer by the Cobbora Shire, met with a…

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Railway Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 1

When a picnic train was shunted into some baggage trucks this morning, two was on a goods train were badly smashed…

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Crash in Rhodesia. Cape Flight's First Fatality. Capetown

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1929 · page 1

A Royal Air Force aeroplane, when taking off at Gwelo, Rhodesia, on a return journey bunked too sharply and crashed. The pilot and passenger were…

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Sad Scalding Fatality. Child Dies From Injuries, Grandmother in Critical Condition

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1929 · page 2

On Saturday night last whilst on the journey from Bourko to North Bourke, where be and bis family reside, Mr Ben. Taylor and family were…

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Drowning Inquest. Mrs. Wheatley's Death

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 5

The inquest was opened at the Dubbo Court House on Friday afternoon, when Mr. J. F. White was coroner…

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Big Smash Head-on Collision Seventeen Killed TORONTO

Western Age · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 3

Seventeen are dead, including thirteen passengers, and five seriously injured in connection with a head-on collision between two Canadian National…

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Big Smash Head on Collision Seventeen Killed TORONTO

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 1

Seventeen are dead, including thirteen passengers, and five seriously injured in connection with a head-on collision between two Canadian National…

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Death of John Shepherd. Accidental Death

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 4

The District Coroner (Mr. E. Townsend) conducted an inquiry at the Gilgnadra Court House on Tuesday morning into the death of John…

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