Horse Injured Jumped Into Hurdle. Sydney
While being schooled at Randwick this morning Chasseur ran off at tho first hurdle and made an effort to clear the wing and inside fence…
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Accidents, 1940
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£3000 ESTATE Late Jockey W. Lappin Verdict of Accidental Death. Sydney
A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest to-day into the death of William Wright Lappin, 18. apprentice jockey, at Randwick, on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cars Collide Accident Near Armidale Grafton Light Horsemen Injured
Sergeant Brian Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. L. Hughes, of Ramornie, and Corporal H. Richardson, of Grafton, members of the 15th Light…
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The Lismore Ambulance on Monday attended what they described as a most unusual accident when they rendered first aid to Mrs. S. G. Squires, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Painful Accident
Edward Arthur Armstrong, 13, met with a painful accident at Glenreagh on Thursday, when a pointed broom handle pierced the lower abdomen. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Injured Car Out Of Control Driver Faints at Wheel. Sydney
Two well-known Sydney business men and their wives were seriously injured this afternoon, when their car crashed, out of control, into a cutting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SAWTELL Accident in Street
An accident, accompanied by rather grave results to one of the victims, occurred last Saturday night on the main thoroughfare on what is known…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Head-on Collision
A head-on collision occurred between two cars on the Inverell-Yetman road on Monday. The vehicles met with terrific force and were badly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woolgoolga Children Injured
Bryan, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Saye, of Woolgoolga Jetty, whilst running across the beach reserve, trod on a large splinter, which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Creek Mother And Child Drowning Tragedy at Lismore
The bodies of Charlotte May Cudby, of Union street, South Lismore, and her seven months old son, Alan, were recovered on Tuesday night from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unusual Accident
As the result of an unusual accident. Mr J. Burkin, of Forest Hill, Warislda. brought to town a young man named William Grainger, in whose knee a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidental Explosions at Fire. Blackheath
After an inspection of the debris at the Ivanhoe Hotel, which was almost destroyed by an explosion during a fire, detectives are convinced that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision Near Ulmarra
Motor cars, driven by Mr. Cliff Ellem, of Upper Coldstream, and Mr. J. J. A. Hyde, of Dorrigo, collided at the intersection of the Pacific highway and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Driver Killed Car And Tram Collide Woman Fatally Injured. Melbourne
Robert Mann, 30. of Surrey Hills, was killed instantly when a car he was driving crashed into a tram at South Yarra shortly before midnight on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →50 ENTOMBED Colliery Explosion Three Killed, Scores Injured. Bellaire (Ohio)
Fifty coal miners were, entombed in the Willowgrove pit explosion. One hundred and eighty were below. Three were killed, and scores injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured by Bull Whilst Teaching It To Lead Elderly Farmer Knocked Down
Robert Thompson, an elderly farmer, residing in Little Queen street. Grafton was admitted to the Grafton District Hospital yesterday afternoon in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General Riding Accident
Max Buchanan, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Buchanan. Coff's Harbour, had his ankle broken when a horse fell on his leg last Sunday afternoon. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Suffocated Pinned Under Truck Accident Near Tabulam. Lismore
One man was killed and another injured when a truck in which they were travelling left the road and overturned neat Tabulam at 8.15 to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Q'sland Floods Man Drowned in Creek Brisbane
The body of Charles Herbert Aspinall, 49, a Maryvale district dairy farmer, was to-day found where it was swept by floodwaters in North Branch Creek last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thurles Lad Destroyed After Unusual Accident
Thurles Lad, Randwick and Stradbroke Handicap winner, and one of the best sprinters to go from the Northern Rivers to Queensland, was destroyed…
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