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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Woman Driver Crashes. Collision with Train. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 2

A motor car, driven by Mrs. James Lilley, got out of control at Bathurst, and dashing through tho railway gates,' crashed into a stationary train. The…

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Boy Drowned. Meets Same Fate As Brother Rockhampton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 3

Leslie Trevarthen, aged 19, was with a lad named Jensen swimming in a dam at Mt. Morgan yesterday when the former got into difficulties…

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Drowned in Dam. Spectators Helpless to Save Boy. Orange

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 1

A tragedy that might have been prevented had those who witnessed it been able to swim occurred when John Edward Auberson (10) was drowned…

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Motor Accidents Mishaps in Sydney and Melbourne Lorry Capsizes. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 3

Nine people were injured, a number seriously, when a motor lorry capsized at North Sydney this morning. The occupants were all members…

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Fatal Collision. PERTH

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 6

Jack Henrys, aged 22, died at the Perth Hospital from injuries received in a motor cycle collision. It appears that Henrys's machine collided with…

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Berlin's Wild New Year's Eve. 260 Injured, Several Killed. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 4

Berlin had the wildest New Year's Eve that it has ever known. The traffic was enormous. Several persons were killed in collisions of motor cars…

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Boy Fatally Injured at Silo Weighbridge

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

Mingled, with the New Year rejoining came word of a sad accident by which Allan Alfred Freeman, aged 11½ years, son of a Mimosa farmer,…

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Gored by a Cow. Child Injured at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

A distressing event occurred in the orchard and vineyard of Mr. W. Walster, Junee, on Thursday last. Mr. Walster's mother went to milk the…

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Knocked Down by Tree Man Seriously Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

While Thomas Gonsage, aged 20, a laborer, was sawing a tree in a gully near Woroora River yesterday, a portion of the trunk crashed on him,…

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Men Drowned. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 3

A message from Orange states that the body of one of the two unknown men who were drowned yesterday, was found subsequently in a paddock,…

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Gored by a Cow Child Injured at Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 4

A distressing event occurred in the orchard and vineyard of Mr. W. Walster, Junee, on Thursday last. Mr. Walster's mother went to milk the…

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CABLES Fourteen men Injured. Mine Cage Crashes. London

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 1

Fourteen miners were seriously in lured when a cage in which they were travelling, crashed to the bottom o the pit, at a near Edinburgh…

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Attacked by a Bull. Orange Resident Severely Injured. ORANGE

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

A man named Oliver was trying to turn a bull out of a paddock yesterday when the animal attacked him, breaking two of his ribs,…

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Boy Run Over. Fatal Accident at Weighbridge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 6

Mingled with the New Year rejoicings came word of a sad accident by which Allan Alfred Freeman, aged 11½ years, son of a Mimosa farmer, was…

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Found Drowned. River and Harbor Tragedies. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

The body of Mary Maldran was found floating in the River Brisbane at a late hour last night. A few minuted previously a woman's screams had been…

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WIRES Injured Boxer Condition still Serious ROCKHAMPTON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 1

A successful operation was performed on Bob East, the Newcastle boxer who Collapsed after his fight with Harry Casey on Boxing night. His…

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CABLES Trains Collide Three Killed and Many Injured LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 1

A message from Port Louts (Mauritius) states that three were killed and sixty injured in a [?] between two passenger trains. Fifteen…

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Cage Crashes Fourteen Miners Injured. Engineman Loses Nerve. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

Fourteen miners were injured when a cage crashed to the bottom of the pit at the New Craighall Colliery, near Edinburgh, this morning…

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Cyclist Injured

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 2

In Baylis street, Wagga, early yesterday afternoon, a motor car driven by Mr. J. S. Curley of Tumbarumba, hit the back wheel of a bicycle, ridden by…

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Burning Fatality Shocking Tragedy at Wallaroobie

Ariah Park News · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 4

In the midst of Christmas celebrations quite a gloom was cast over the community when the news became known of the…

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