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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Damage Caused to Shop Constable In Collision Taking Woman to Hospital Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 4

While conveying a woman to the Adelaide Hospital in his motor car on November 7, after he had found her wandering in the hills, Constable…

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Trucks on Fire 3 Youths Injured Jumped Off Train (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.) DUBBO

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 8

Three youths were seriously burned to-day when they jumped from the top of a blazing truck, one of a string…

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Burial of Victims of Mining Accident

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 4

The interment was maile in the Church of England Cemetery yesterday afternoon of Mr. Albert Edward Ellis, who was killed in the South…

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Drowning Cases Eight Reported Yesterday Country and City Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

Reports from country centres are bringing yesterday's drowning toll to almost alarming proportions. There were no fewer than eight victims…

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Boy Drowned While Paddling

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Monday.—Harold John Cass (8), son of Mr. Benson Cass, clerk, of Cooma-street, Parkside, was drowned in Brownhill Creek…

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Rowing Boat Capsizes Two Men Drowned In Torrens ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 1

Two young men were drowned and a third was saved when a small rowing boat capsized in midstream in the River, Torrens when two of the…

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Boy Involved In Mr. Guppy's Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 1

A boy aged 16 years admitted to Detective-Constable Sutherland over the week end that he was involved in the accident in which Mr. Edmund…

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Ex-champion Sportsman Killed in Accident

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 3

LONDON, January 29.—Mr. Spencer H. Gollan, formerly of New Zealand, a noted figure in the sporting world, was run over by a motor bus…

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Child's Rescuer Injured

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.— Diving from the Largs Bay jetty to save a small girl who had fallen into the water, David Davey, of Gordon-street,…

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Senator Lynch Injured Perth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 2

The President of the Senate (Senator Lynch) met with an accident at his farm at Three Springs, when his eyes were injured by tar. The…

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Two Brothers Drowned (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Joseph Ernst (24) and Raymond Stephen Ernst (17) were drowned last night in the Hunter River about 17 miles…

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28 on Board Injured Mountainous Waves Strike Steamer MONTREAL, January 28

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 1

A message from St. John (New Brunswick) says the three mountainous tidal waves, believed to be the result of a submarine earthquake…

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Fresh Outbreaks of Rioting on Kalgoorlie Field Pitched Battle Last Night Foreigner And Britisher Dead Several Men Injured Fire Arms and Bombs Used by Combatants Kalgoorlie

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 1

Two men—one a foreigner and the other a young Australian—are dead and several are suffering from injuries following a pitched battle between miners and foreigners in the foreign quarter, east of Boulder, last night…

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Cage Accident at South Mine

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 1

Underground operations at the South mine were suspended to-day owing to an accident to one of the cages at 5.50, o'clock yesterday…

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Verdict in South Mine Fatalities "Injuries Were Accidentlly Received" (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

Death due to injuries accidentally received following a fall of ground in the South mine on January 23 was the finding of the jury in the Coroner's Court this afternoon when Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M. and coroner, continued the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the…

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Boy's Prank Causes Rail Collision

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

CALCUTTA, January 30.—The 12-year-old son of an enginedriver, who had been shown the controls by his father, in the latter's absence opened…

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Double Motor Fatality

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

BULLI, Thursday.—At a double inquest the local coroner found that Gladys Gow and Walter Smith were accidentally killed by a car driven…

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Child Swept Into Sewer and Drowned

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday.—During floods at Maryborough Joan Eramor (7), while paddling in a fast running channel was swept into a sewer. The…

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Two Miners Injured

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 3

A. M'Donalil and H. Manuel were injured last night while working in the Zinc Corporation mine. M'Donald's finger was cut by a stone falling…

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Two Miners Injured

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 9

A. M'Doriald and H. Manuel were injured last night while working in the Zinc Corporation mine. M'Donald's finger was cut by a stone falling…

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