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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Mince Pie Falls Jockey Pearce Injured Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 1

While going steadily on the sand track at Flemington this morning, Mince Pie Stumbled and fell. The rider, J. Pearce, suffered a fractured thigh…

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Car Smashes Three Persons Killed Number of Others Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 5

George Spence, 35, of Miller's Point, was killed and five other, people had narrow escapes from death when a car got out of control…

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Severe Head Wound Dived on to Hidden Snag Accident at Mcpherson's Crossing

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 4

Mr. C. G. Torrens, relieving ledger keeper at the Grafton branch of the Bank of New South Wales, was seriously injured when he dived on to a hidden snag…

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Peculiar Accident Laborer Fatally Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 5

Charles Lucre, laborer, 56, of Botany was fatally injured in a peculiar accident, at Redfern to-day. With several other men on a building, Lucre succeeded in…

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Broken Neck Visitor From East Africa Killed in Accident Girl Severely Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 5

Instantaneous death from a broken neck caused in a motor car accident this afternoon brought to a tragic, end the furlough which John Priddle…

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Survived Wreck Swam Miles to Safety Was Drowned in Few Feet

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 9

Oscar Ervik (31), of Brisbane, who had previously been in a wreck off the New, South Wales coast, when he swain more than two miles to the shore, was drowned…

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Two Men Injured Leg Crushed and Foot Cut. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 4

As the result of having his leg crushed by a large hardwood log at Mulhearn Bros.' mill, an employee named Jack Smith was conveyed to Coff's Harbor…

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N. Qsland Cyclone's Fury 50 DEAD Two More Luggers Lost 40 Men Drowned Three Other Launches Missing Death Roll May Be Increased. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 5

The cyclone at Cairns on Monday was probably the most disastrous in the history of North Queensland so far as the fishing fleet is concerned…

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ACCIDENTS Ambulance Badly Needed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 2

Three severe accidents at Eastern Dorrigo early this week, with difficulty of transport for the injured, confirmed the need of an ambulance for Coffs…

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While Playing. Boy Drowned in Gutter. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 5

While playing with his six-year-old brother beside a deep gutter at Richmond. to-day. Albert Barnes (4), of Swan street, Richmond, fell in and was…

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Horned in the Face. Bullock Driver Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 4

V. McPhillips, 26, bullock driver, residing on the Woolgoolga road, near South Grafton, was -horned in the face by a bullock whilst unyoking his team…

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Human Loss. 56 Killed Since January 1 Motorists' Toll in N.S.W. 351 Injured in Accidents. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 4

According to a statement issued by the N.R.M.A., 56 persons have been killed and 351 injured in motor accidents in New South Wales since the…

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Two Injured in Car Smash

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1934 · page 4

Miss M. Schraeder and Mr. J. Hair, of Ballina, were injured when Mr. Hair's car in which they were driving to Walcha overturned at the railway gates. Uralla,…

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Two Boys Drowned in Dam. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1934 · page 5

While bathing two boys, John Albert Jolly, 10, and John Henry Burt, 12, both of Sebastopol, were drowned in a dam opposite the school at Sedan, in the…

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Lorry Out of Control Man Killed: Another Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1934 · page 7

Alfred Yandle, 26, was killed and Clarence Meehan, of Sydney, injured when a motor lorry got out of control near Orbost last night and, after crashing over…

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Another Train Smash 33 KILLED, 68 Injured in Russia Moscow

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1934 · page 5

Thirty-three persons were killed and 68 injured when a passenger train ran down a shunting freighter at Tavatui to-day…

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Two Days and Two Nights Lying in the Bush Injured Man's Unenviable Experience. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1934 · page 4

After lying in the bush, on the Little North Arm of the Bellingen River, near Thora, for two days and two nights, a man named Bennett, of…

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Rifle Accident at Casino

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1934 · page 6

Loan Raphael (16), of Casino, was carrying a rifle on Sunday when it accidentally exploded and the bullet entered his buttock and emerged on the opposite…

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Injured Man's Ordeal

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 March 1934 · page 3

Working in the bush at Thora, a sleeper cutter named Bennett, from Dorrigo, gashed his foot when his axe slipped and lay for two days and two…

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Lorry Accident Two Men Seriously Injured Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1934 · page 1

When a motor lorry got out of control owing to the brake failing, at Mosman this morning, it ran backwards down a hill, crashed into a brick wall, and…

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