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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Motor Vehicles Collide Injured Man Rescues His Wife and Children Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 3

Alter a head-on Ofcollisiou on the Sydney road early this morning, a motor car burst into hames and was destroyed. Albert Ashfold, who was…

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"Big Dipper" Fatality Mystery Man Known. But Not. Wanted at Inquesx Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

The police believe that they know the identity of the mystery man in the "Big Dipper" tragedy, but because he cannot throw any further light on the…

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Injured Broken Hill Boy Has Sight of Eye Saved Treatment of the Case Under Par West Scheme Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

The following was published in "The World" to-day "Fate working through the Rev.S. G. Drummond and a specialist at the Sydney Hospital has…

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Mining Accidents

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

The ambulance was required last uiaht on three occasions, there being two culls to the North mine, and one to the Zinc Corporation. The first…

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Injured at Work

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

V. Soclculie while at work at the South mine Inst night wee struck on the leg by a falling stone. He was taken in the ambulance to the…

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"Big Dipper" Fatality the Coroner's Verdict Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

The inquest was held to-day into the circumstances connected with the death of Mrs. Lilian HiggB, wife of Harry Higgs, well known horse…

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Professor's Wife Drowned Married Ten Days Hobart,Saturday

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 1

The honeymoon of Dr.Leicester M'Cauloy, Professor of Physics at the University of Tnsmanin, ended tragically yesterday when his wife was…

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Railway Fatality Man's Mutilated Body Found on Lines June

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 7

An unknown man met a shocking death when he fell from the Molbourne-Sydeny express, apparently while "jamping the rattler." The…

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Motor Cars Collide Five People Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 3

Mrs. George Hart, of Balmain, was terribly injured Inst night'when a motor car in which she was riding was involved in a collision with another…

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Motor Cars Collide Five People Injured Sydney,Saturday

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 8

Mrs. George Hart, of Baldnain, was (terribly injured last night when a motor car in which she riding [?], involved in a [?] with another…

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Struck by Falling Tree Man Badly Injured Jamestown

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 3

While Mr. A. E. Cadd, of Jamestown, was felling a tre0 at Bundaleer Forest yesterday, ho was struck across the back by one of the limbs. He was…

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A Mysterious Accident at Sleep's Hill Quarries Victim Dies in Hospital Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 1

Mystery surrounds the way in which Mr. Albert Scliwerkolt got a wound in the head at the Adelaide Quarries, Sleopts Hill, from which he died in the…

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Motor Cyclist Injured in Collision with Car Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Alexander Donaldson Roborts (21).a navy employee, is in tho Lewisham Hospital in a critical condition as the result of a collision between his motor…

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Queensland Drowning Cases Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Mrs. Helen Day (44) of Sandgate, disappeared yesterday from a bedroom at her borne and four hours later ber body was found in the water near the…

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Fatalities and Accidents Motor Car Falls 26 Feet Two Occupants Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Two people hod narrow escapes from death late last night when a motor car in which they were riding crashed through the fence the show ground…

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Death of Mr. J. Whitcombe Caused by Drowning Is Finding of Coroner

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

The inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of John Whitcombe, who was found in the Sillverton Tramway dam on…

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Railway Fatality Man's Mutilated Body Found on Line Junee

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 4

An unknown man met a shocking death when he fell from the Melbourne-Sydney expresa, apparently while "jumping the rattler." The…

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Motor Cycles Collide Four Persons Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Four persons, including a seven— mouths-old baby, were injured when two motor cycles, ono with a sidecar, collided at Marrickville last night. All…

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Motor Car Overturns Four Men Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Four well-known Cowra business men were injured last night when their car hit the fallen branch of a tree on the Woodstock-road and overturned. They…

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Motor Lorry Capsizes Occupant Badly Injured Port Pirie

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Mr. Albert G. Knapp, of Port Pirie, was seriously injured as the result of a motor lorry capsizing about seven miles from Port Broughton yesterday…

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