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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Tunneller Injured. Sydney, Tuesday

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 March 1924 · page 4

While working in a tunnel at the intersection of Bulwarra Road and William Henry street, Ultimo, to-day, Ted Witherston (31), a tunneller, was badly…

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Peculiar Fatality Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 6 March 1924 · page 1

Unusual circumstances surround the death in the Sydney Hospital yesterday of Mrs. Margaret Kelly, aged 50…

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Mother Hangs Herself. Dreadful Experience of Injured Boy. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 4

To be hurled from his bicycle by a motoro-car and run over by a cart in Park Street, City, last Tuesday; to thus suffer a fractured leg and lie in the…

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Railway Fatality Busman Killed Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 1

Ernest Alfred Black, a bus proprietor, was crossing the railway line at Waitara late on Saturday night, when he was struck y a locomotive, and…

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Harbor Collision. Woman Crushed by Bulwarks Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 3

A sensational collision between the ferry steamers Kiandra and Kanim bla accursed this afternoon on the harbor at the entrance to Curcula…

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Rescued From Drowning. Hobart

The Daily Express · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 1

Florrice M’Ar[?] 49 a married women, wa[?] into the [?] Bay until the was out [?]th, but the gaves [?] her [?]…

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Reliability Test Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 2

The Alpine Motor Reliability Trial, which is now in progress, was responsible for an accident on the stage from Tullangetta (Victoria) to Tumut (New…

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Collision at Sea London

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 1

Renter: The Dutch steamer Abekirk, bound from Intwerp to Australia, collided with a Dutch auxiliary vessel, the latter sinking…

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Motor Passengers Injured. Sidney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 5

Three men were injured in a motor smash at La parouse early to-day when in attempting to avoid collision with another car, the taxi driver…

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Abbekirk in Collision. Vessel Sunk and Two Sailors Drowned. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1924 · page 2

A Flushing (Holland) message stales that the Dutch steamer Abbekirk bound from Antwerp for Australia, collided in the Scheldt with a Dutch auxiliary…

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Motoring Accidents. Narandera Parties Suffer Wonderful Escapes From Serious Injury

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1924 · page 2

Two motor vehicle accidents occurred on Wednesday night near Narandera, the first and most serious one, being of such a nature that it…

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Vessels in Collision. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1924 · page 4

The Peninsular steamer, Poona, as she was leaving Middlesborough for Australia, via The Cape, collided with and sank a lighter…

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Items of News. Street Accident

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1924 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon John Weir, an elderly man, was loaning idly against a motor bus in front of Copland's Stores. Wayga, when the bus started…

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Fatality on Railway

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1924 · page 4

Robert Burnley (63) was walking over the Cooks River railway bridge on Saturday when a train approached, and in stepping to one side to avoid it…

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Motoring Fatality. Occupants Pinned Beneath Car. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1924 · page 3

As the result of the bursting of a tyre, a motor car, driven by Frederick Ray, capsized at Woodend yesterday. The occupants were pinned beneath the…

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Prince of Wales. Again Injured. Thrown in Steeplechase. LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1924 · page 2

The Prince of Wales rode in an army point to point steeplechase near Wok[?] to-day. It was his first public appearance since he broke his…

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Wires and Cables This Afternoon Exclusively News Not Available Here by Any Other Paper Till To-morrow. the Prince of Wales British Public Tired of Reading of His Riding Accidents "He Is a Plucky Fellow But—" London

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 March 1924 · page 1

An Australian Press Association message says that the "Daily Herald," in a leader, says that the British nation is getting very tired of…

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Terrible Explosion. Sixteen Lives Lost. Many Others Injured. ROME

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 2

Sixteen workers were killed and seventeen were wounded and injured in an explosion, at a match factory at Cario…

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Motor Cycle Accident. Two Young Men Killed. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 3

Leonard Wilson (24) and Leslie Cole were riding in a motor cycle and side-car, near Narrabeen, late yesterday, when the machine…

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