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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Man Drowned; Sandbag Tied Round Neck

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.—The body of Charles Kruger (59), married, was found at low tide in the bathing enclosure at Torquay, Maryborough,…

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Motor Car Overturns Five Occupants Injured One Reports £15 LOSS

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 1

Five persons had narrow escapes from serious injury yesterday evening when a motor car turned over on the Stephens Creek…

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Christmas Eve Drowning Accidental Says Coroner

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death from drowning was recorded by the coroner at Menindee (Mr. J. F. Cleary) at the inquest into the…

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Colliery Worker Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Mitcheson (17), employed at the Stanford Merthyr coal mine, was seriously injured by a runaway skip. He…

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Fatal Gun Accident Boy Shot By His Brother

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 2

TAILEM BEND, Tuesday.—As a result of injuries received when a gun exploded and wounded him in a knee, Roy Ivan Johnson, aged 12, son of…

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Senator Dunn Saves Two Drowning Boys

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Senator J. P. Dunn saved two small children from drowning at the Balmain baths. Senator Dunn was at the baths with his…

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Saved From Drowning Man Rescues Three From Murray MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 2

Powerful swimming and a measure of good fortune enabled Mr. John Beazley, of Swan Hill, to save three persons from drowning in the Murray…

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Injured on Honeymoon Car Hits Sheep And Capsizes Tailem Bend

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 2

Mr. H. Leedman, a Kalgoorlie dentist, and his wife, who are on their honeymoon, escaped serious injury when their single-seater sports car…

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Men Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 6

Pabio Rarpelli, a miner at the North, was treated at the outpatients' department of the Hospital to-day for an injury to the foot. He resides…

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Girl Saves Two Others From Drowning

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 2

BRISBANE, January 9.—Two girls narrowly escaped drowning while bathing at high tide at Sandgate. Ruth Griffiths (12), got into difficulties…

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Bomb Explodes in Tram Woman Passenger Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When a tram bound from Circular Quay to Rosebery was nearing the Epsom-street stopping place a bomb…

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'Plane Dives Into Troops 15 Killed And 11 Injured (Special to "The Miner") KARACHI, January 8

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 6

Fifteen men were killed and eleven seriously injured when a Royal Air Force 'plane nosedived into a platoon of Indian troops…

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Girl Saved From Drowning

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 1

MOE, Friday.—When Patty Lawson (16), of Moe, called for help while swimming in the Narracan Creek, her friends thought she was…

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Man's Eye Injured by Grasshopper

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 2

GLADSTONE, Friday.—Some time ago Mr. F. Henderson, of the Texas Co., Gladstone, while travelling in the Wilmington district was struck in the…

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Two Men Injured in Explosion Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 2

Ivan Fuller, married, and Gordon Haydon, single, received serious injuries when a charge of gelignite exploded in a well near the Dorrigo…

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Mrs. Broad Killed Car Overturns Near Molong Mr. Broad Badly Injured

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 1

When a motor car overturned on the Wellington-road, near Molong, late yesterday- afternoon, the accident was attended by fatal results for…

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Accidental Drowning Inquest Held On Mr. Dulfer

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 1

A finding of accidental drowning was returned by the coroner (Mr. R. Donaldson)at-the intiuest-this,afternoon into circumstances surrounding…

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Drowned in Waterhole the Boxing Day Tragedy

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 4

After the Home Edition went to press yesterday, Jack Dulfer, metallurgist at the South mine, continued his evidence before the coroner (Mr…

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News in Brief Injured at Work

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 2

Lacerations to the arms were sustained last night by O. C. Thompson when he was struck by a falling stone whilst carrying a machine. He…

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Fatal Lorry Smash Boy Killed Near White cliffs Father Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 1

Christy Walter Jones, aged 16 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cuthbert G. G. Jones, of Quarry View Station, near…

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