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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Fatalities and Accidents Journalist Suicides. Strain of Election Campaign. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 2

Mr. William. Williams, who contested the Evelyn seat at the recent Victorian elections, ended his life in tragic circumstances last night. The…

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Naval Disaster. Mysterious Sinking of Submarine K5. All Hands Lost. First British Naval Accident Since War. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1921 · page 2

The Admiralty announces the total loss on Thursday last of the submarine K5, with Commander Gaimes, D.S.O., and all hands at the approach to the…

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Fatalities and Accidents Loneliness of the Bush. Trapper's Death From Snakebite. Lockhart

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1921 · page 3

The lonelines of the bush was exemplified by the finding of the body of a trapper, William craig, in a paddock at Mahonga on Saturday. He had…

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Fatalities and Accidents Junee Farmer Injured. Junee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 January 1921 · page 4

Mr. H. G. Dennis whilst working a harvester on his farm close to Junee was struck in the face by a piece of the machine that had become…

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Fatalities and Accidents Fell From Chimney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 January 1921 · page 1

Sydney Maude aged 26 a bricklayer was working on a chimney at the Bellevue brickyards, Balmain, this morning when the overbalanced and…

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Drowning Fatality Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 1

A man named Harding, a resident of Parramatta, was bathing ln the Nepean River near Penr[?] to-day when he wps caught in treacherous…

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Boy Drowned. Maitland

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 3

Aubrey Howarth (7), son of Richard Howarth, Ballan-street, West Maitland, was drowned yesterday while bathing with two companions…

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Fatalities and Accidents Drowned in the Surf. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 3

Vivian Cummings, aged 25, a motor driver, was drowned in the surf at Bronte this afternoon…

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Travellers' Secretary Injured. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 3

Mr. James Davies, secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Association, Melbourne, met with a serious accident near Marysville. He was…

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Aeroplane Crashes. Passenger Severely Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 3

An Avro aeroplane piloted toy John S. Summers, and carrying as passenger Mr. Sidney Francis, of Annandale, was flying from the Richmond…

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Ammonia Explodes Man Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 1

Alfred Chalker, employed at the Royal P[?] Alfred Hospital, was driving a cart containing two large cylinders of ammonia along…

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Sporting. the Turf. Jockey Dempsey Injured. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 4

Frank Dempsey, the Victorian jockey, has been obliged for the present to abandon the idea of paying a professional visit to England. Recently…

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Accident in Baylis-street

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1921 · page 2

Shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday morning an accident occurred in Baylis-street, as a result of which James Corbett is an inmate of Wagga…

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Nearly a Fatality

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 5

A few days ago, Mr. E. Burns, a ganger on the Jindalee length, met with an accident which might have resulted in serious consequences. He…

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Constable Injured. Bombala

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 3

Constable Chapman, who is in charge of the police station at Cathcart, fell from his horse and fractured his skull. The constable was…

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Sixteen Killed. in Railway Collision. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 2

It is officially reported that sixteen persons were billed and fourteen injured in a railway collision, between Newton and Abermule, as a result of…

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Local and General Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 4

What might have been a very serious accident befell our local postal mechanic (Mr F. Preston) on Thursday morning. He started out on his bike to…

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Fatalities and Accidents Worry Causes Suicide. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 3

At the inquest concerning the death of Hugh Henna, aged 26 years, his sister told the coroner that the deceased, who was married, had eloped…

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BUCKLEY. V.C. Death After Accident. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 4

Sergeant Bucleley. [?] V.C. D.C.M. died to-day from injuries received through being thrown from pony. Buckley served early in the war and…

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Aeroplane Smashed. Unusual Accident Hobart

The Daily Express · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 1

An aeroplane in which Capt. Hurley arrived at Hobart yesterday from Melbourne was wrecked this morning by a florae windstorm. The machine…

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