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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Accidents Follow Accident. Injured Man's Rough Car Journey. Carcoar

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 3

Suffering intense pain from internal injuries caused by his horse rolling on rim. Thomas Davis showed wonderful fortitude when mishaps delayed the…

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Brave Man Drowned. Attempting to Rescue Girl. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 3

Charles Castle (24) was drowned in Lake Moodemere while trying to rescue Amy Harris, daughter of his employer. William Harris, a merry-go-ground…

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Melbournians in Tears. a Tea Room Accident. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 2

There was consternation among pedestrians in Little Collins street this morning. Every person emerging from the street was in tears. It was not,…

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Serious Driving Accident

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 2

Last Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. of Egan, of Mulebo, were driving over the Malebo Range with their children. Mr. Egan walked up the hill, and had not…

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Serious Accident

The Daily Express · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 2

George Patrick Williams will not represent Australia in the next Polytypic games. One day this week he was high-jumping over a rope stretched…

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Cycling Accident Melbourne

The Daily Express · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 1

H. Argyle (20), a son of Dr. Ar[?]le, of Toorak was cycling in Beach Road when a child ran in front of him Swerving to avoid the [?]…

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Brewing Fatality

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

The Christmas [?] in Marrar, were [?] by a drowning fatality the funds of which were adduced at the Coronial [?] conducted by…

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Ships in Collision. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

The steamer Somerset has arrived In London, from Adelaide, with a damaged bow, the result of a collision in the Thames's mouth with a tanker the…

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Burning Fatality at Parramatta. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 1

Mrs. Vidal, a married woman with three children, was burned to death at her home, Parramatta, last night, When her husband arrived home,…

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Two Sisters Drown Sad Bathing Fatality Melbourne, Thur[?]

The Daily Express · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

A sad drowning accident is [?] the victims being two [?] Eileen Effie M’Dougall, aged [?] Pearl M’Dougall, aged is rest[?]…

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Sisters Drowned.. Tragedy on the Tarra Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

Two sisters, Eileen E[?] MacDougall (10) and Pearl MacDougall (16) residing at Gladstone st Kew, with others, had been bathing in the Yarra. The…

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Fatality at Darling Harbor. Caused by Hawser Breaking. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 3

While the steamer Dilkera was being [?] at Darling Harbor to-day, a wire hawser broke, swept along the [?] and struck George Mathicson…

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Railway Train Wrecked. 4 People Killed, 5 Injured. Capetown

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

A message from Gruafrieutz states that two women and two children were killed and five persons injured in a railway accident yesterday…

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A Fatal Accident. Mrs. Karl Bounder the victim. Shaft ran through her month

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident happened at Melbourne on Monday, when a motor car, in which was Mrs. Karl Bounader, the young wife of the…

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Accident

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

A double-seated powerful Bulck motor car and a pony and jinker came into collision in the city of Melbourne Mrs Bounader, a young married…

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Serious Driving Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 4

Last Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Egan, of Malebo, were driving over the Malebo Range with their children. Mr. Egan walked up the…

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Berthing a Ship a Fatal Accident Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 1

“While the steamer D[?]lkera, which arrived to-day, was being berthed at Darling Harbor by means of a rope tied on a capstan on the wharf, a…

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Double Fatality Two Boys Drowned Henty

The Daily Express · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 2

Two small boys in a leaking boat, in the deep end of a dam at Henty furnished the material for a double tragedy yesterday…

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Burning Fatality Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 1

When Guy Vidler, batcher, residing at Parramatta, returned home last night he found his wife in the yard screaming, and with her clothes…

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Drowned in a Well Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 1

Mrs Sopble Wincheator [?] while drawing a bucket of water from a well [?][?] home at Blacktown yesterday was [?] selected with [?]…

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