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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

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Accident to Coachdriver. Mr. Wm. Grant the Victim

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 4

Driving home the school children from Tumut to Gilmore on Tuesday afternoon, with a pair of horses in the coach, Mr. William Grant…

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Wish Wynne Injured. Eurythamic Starts To-day Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 7

While being taken off the boat at Melbourne yesterday Wish Wynne sustained slight injury. However, she cantered on the track at Caulfield this…

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Harefield Cyclist Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 2

A motor cycle collided with George Glendenning in George street West Both Glen[?]enning and the driver of the cycle were thrown to the…

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IRELAND. Captured Letters Reveal a Split. A Train Collision. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 1

The "Observer's" Dublin correspondent says importance is attached to the capture of letters from Mary McSwiney to De Valera. They…

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A Bad Smash. Accident at Epping Trots. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 4

There was a bad smash in the first division of the Trial Handicap at Epping this afternoon. When going out of the straight the first time round…

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Fatalities and Accidents Motor Smash. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 2

Shortly after midnight a car containing a passengers, collided with a telegraph post in Anzac Parade, near Moore Park. The driver and the…

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A Veteran's Bad Accident. Legs and Arm Broken. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 1

An elderly man was critically injured, in Elizabeth-street this morning, when he was knocked down by a motor lorry. The wheels of the…

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Bussing Fatality

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 4

A man named Henry Gehrs, an old age pensioner who had been living by himself for years past in a hut in the wilds of Broken Cart (Goobragandra…

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Railway Fatality. Soldier's BRISBANE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 1

Henry Maiming, a returned soldier, was literally, cut to railway line near Brisbane this morning. He was suffer[?]…

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Tennis. Tilden’s Injured Hand New York, February 18

The Daily Express · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 4

The New York “Times” Sporting Editor has viewed an indoor tennis match between Richards and Tilden [?] which Richards defeated the…

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Fatalities' and Accidents Geelong

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 2

A girl named Healy fell over a cliff at the Bluff near Geelong yesterday. She was brought into Geelong by motor anbulance, and it is…

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A Fatal Smash. Motor Accident Near Goulburn. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 2

A fatal motor accident occurred at Tarra, eight miles from Goulburn, on Sunday. Peter M'Ilvoy, 43, licensee of Hibernian Hotel, died as the…

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Collision at Sea. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 2

The Australian liner Port Kembla picked up and landed the crew of ten of the Ramagate trawler, who took to the boats after a collision near…

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Child Drowned in Drain Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 1

The fifteen months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Byron Bay, was drowned yesterday in the Billongel drain, which passes at…

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Railway Smash the Epernay Collision Paris, February 19

The Daily Express · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 1

Further details of the E[?]ruay train accident, in which many people were killed or injured, show Hat the crowded Paris-Strasbourg express,…

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Fatalities and Accidents Cut to Pieces. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 2

Henry Manning, a returned soldier, was literally cut to pieces on the railway near Brisbane this morning. He was suffering from phthisis and…

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Runaway and Collision

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 2

An exciting street runaway occurred in Kincaid-street yesterday afternoon. A sulky and a milk car were standing in front of J. Harris…

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A Baby Drowned. Byron Bay

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 2

The fifteen months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Byron Bay, was drowned yesterday in the Bilongel drain which passes the back…

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Level Crossings Motor-car Mishap Several Persons Injured Adelaide

The Daily Express · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 1

Mr. R. H. Koth, of Uranqulnty, near Wagga Wagga. (N.S.W.), who is visiting South Australia, was yesterday proceeding in a motor.car to [?]…

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Motoring Mishap. Train Runs Into Car. Uranquinty Residents Injured. ADELAIDE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 2

Mr. R. H. Koth of Uranquinty near, Wagga, who is visiting South Australia, was proceeding in a motor car to Maitland with his wife and…

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