Drowned in Bucket of Milk. Wellington (N.z.)
Left to play in a kitchen alone, an 11-month-old child, Peter Cunningham, was drowned in a bucket of milk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents
Accidents, 1939
767 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 39
Accidental Death of Two Cyclists
Lengthy evidence was taken at the Inverell Police Court on Monday morning when the Coroner, Mr. James Symes, conducted an inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Shot Pea-Rifle Accident Youth on Manslaughter Charge. Wollongong
Alexander Alfred Sharpe, 45, fisherman, was found dead on the Wollongong beach last night. He had been shot through the chest. The body was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision with Cows
Mr. Frank Bastian was fortunate to escape serious personal injury and damage to his baker's van last Tuesday, when delivering bread up Middle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trains Collide One Killed, 31 Injured. London
One was killed and 31 were injured in a collision between two trains at Glasgow. One train was carrying football fans…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Men Killed Car And Truck Collide passenger injured. MELBOURNE
Two men, whose identity has not been established Were killed, and another seriously injured to-day, when a service car driven from Ballarat crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tamworth Men Injured
When their car crashed into a telegraph post near Somerton late on Wednesday night, the three occupants were injured and admitted to the Tamworth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Injured Truck Strikes Bridge. Lismore
Robert Short (18) had ribs fractured and received internal injuries and shock, and James Mullins (16) fractured his right leg, when they were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bus Strikes Tram Four People Injured. Sydney
Although a crowded bus collided with a tram with such force that the tram was derailed and the bus badly damaged, practically all the windows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car Overturns Accident Near Ebor Grafton Resident Injured
Returning from a trip to Melbourne by car yesterday afternoon Ald. W. I. Weiley, of Villiers street, Grafton, who was accompanied by Jack and Bil…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Drowned Body in Tweed River. Murwillumbah
The body of Edmund Reed, 55, single, timber worker, of Tyalgum, was found to-day washed up on the bank of the Tweed River, almost opposite radio…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth Drowned in Surf at Yamba Washed Off Surfo-Plane Gallant Attempt at Rescue
Surfing at Yamba beach early yesterday morning a youth named Walter Stevens, of Warialda, aged 17, was washed off his surfo- plane by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Relief Fund Shark Creek Accident Further Good Response
The sum of £45 was added or Saturday to the total of the Relief Fund for the dependents of the Shark Creek motor accident victims. The amounts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaol Riot Two Killed, 13 Injured. Hyderabad
A warden and a convict were killed and 13 injured, four seriously, in a riot at the gaol at Warangal. One hundred long term prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eye Injured by Flying Rock
When a piece of rock flew up when he was spawling at a quarry at Woodburn on Friday, Frank Thomas, a laborer, of Wardell, received eye injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opinions of Our Readers Yamba Surf Fatality
Sir--As secretary of the Yamba Surf Life Saving Club, I feel it my duty to make comment on the club's position in regard to Sunday's very sad surfing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Smash Two Policemen Killed Collision With Van While Chasing Motorist Sydney
Two policemen were killed tonight when their motor cycle and sidecar collided with terrific force with a meat waggon in Parramatta road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Workman Injured by Pick
W. Murray, a laborer employed on the main roads construction works on the Richmond Range, suffered a punctured wound on the head and slight…
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Mr. F. Murphy, line foreman at Ulmarra, had a nasty accident yesterday morning at about 10 o'clock, when making a disconnection to a telephone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured Man Two Days In Scrub Cries for Help Not Heard. Lismore
Mr. J. L. Diamond, 28, of Pretty Gully, Tabulam, suffered a severe incised wound on the right instep while cutting wood at a camp in a lonely…
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