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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Capt[?] [?] Death After Accident Popular Fire Brigade Chief

The Daily Express · Monday 16 January 1922 · page 2

Captain Arthur Tuck, office to charge [?] the New South Water Fire Brigade at Wagga [?] about 4 o’clock on Saturday morning as a result of a…

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Fatal Collision Jinker V. Cable Tram Sydney Youth Killed Melbourne

The Daily Express · Tuesday 17 January 1922 · page 2

A fatal collision between a jinker and a cable tram occurred this afternoon in Victoria Street, Carlton, when the horse belted and bashed into the…

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Bolting Horse. Accident Near Wyalong. Wyalong

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1922 · page 2

A shocking accident happened on the Yalgogrin Road on Saturday. A sulky containing Mrs. J. Roberts and three children was being driven along…

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Youth Drowned. Sad Fatality at Gobbagumbalin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1922 · page 2

A sad fatality occurred late yesterday afternoon when Wallace Jack Shephard, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shephard, of Gobbagumbalin,…

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Harbor Fatality Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 18 January 1922 · page 1

A motor launch was capsized by the by wash of the s.s. Wyandra, near Pyrmont late this afternoon and a man camed Hazelmore was drowned. His…

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Ba[?] Tragedy at [?]Obba Young Man Drowned

The Daily Express · Wednesday 18 January 1922 · page 2

Wallace J. Shepherd, [?] years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shepherd, of Go[?]lin, was yesterday drowned in the [?]oon [?]ear…

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Head-on Collision Between Railway Motor Cycles Electrician Hurt

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1922 · page 2

Last night two motor cycles crashed on the single line near the gap, with the result that Mr. Herbert G. Crawley, relieving electrician at Cootamundra…

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Darlow Street Accident Death of Miss Hall

The Daily Express · Wednesday 18 January 1922 · page 2

Miss Hall, who was admitted to the Wagga District Hospital on January 4 [?]s a result of a motor accident in Darlow Street, died at the hospital…

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Coolac Fatality Little Boy Drowned

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1922 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs W. C. Hayward of Coolac sustained a big loss on Tuesday morning last, when their eldest son. Arthur, a 5-year…

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Gobba Fatality Funeral Yesterday

The Daily Express · Thursday 19 January 1922 · page 2

The funeral of the late Wallace Jack Shepherd, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shepherd, of Gobba, took place yesterday, leving the homestead for…

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Drowning Fatality Young Boy Drowned a Girl’s Gallantry. Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 2

A party consisting of Rex Danks (S). of Bulli, Miss Jennie Price, of Enfield, and Leonie White (16), of Lindfield, and another young girl and boy, went…

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Drowning Fatality Little Boy at Coolac

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 2

On Tuesday the police received word that a little boy Arthur Hay-ward, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hay-ward, railway station master of…

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Boy Drowned

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 5

A party of three women and a boy went into tho baths at Middle Harbor yesterday afternoon at ebb tide The boy, Rex Danks, aged eight, of Bulli…

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Cycling Smash. Man and Wife Injured Man Dying; Woman Injured. Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 1

An unfortunate mishap, in King Street, Newtown, shortly after 9 o’clock last night, resulted in such grievous injury to Reginald Michael…

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Train Accident

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 5

A married woman, Mrs James Hanley, 56, of Weston, fell under a train at Clyde last night when alighting Her left arm and leg were severed…

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Cycling Accident

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 5

A motor cycle and aida car crashed into verandah post at Newtown last night. Reginald Michael Rowe, 28, of Newtown, had his skull fractured and…

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Another Case Coolac Has a Second Drowning Fatality

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 2

Coolac has had a second drowning fatality within the space of a week. Yesterday a number of…

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Tram Collision. Accident at Randwick. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 2

The tramway authorities estimate that 18 persons were injured in last night's tram collision at Randwick. All phases of mishap will be…

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Accident to Paris Express Broken Coupling the Cause Sixty injured LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 1

A serious accident occurred to the Paris express through a broken coupling. The roar of the train collided with a shunting engine. Four of the…

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Drowned in the Murrumbidgee Walter Briggs, of Muttama

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 4

A sad fatality occurred yesterday, at the Murrumbidgee, near its junction with the Tumut River, on the Mingay property. Walter Briggs, 22, son of…

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