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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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300 Miles Dash to Injured Girl

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Monday.—The story of a 300 mild clash by an ambulance by night to bring an Adelaide doctor's daughter to the city for urgent…

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Drowned While Fishing Second Man Has Narrow Escape SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 6

Frederick Smith was drowned and Frederick Dean had a narrow escape from a similar fate while fishing off Maroubra early this morning. When…

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Girl Breaks Wrist in Bicycle Collision

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 May 1936 · page 2

When a bicycle ridden by Gwen Loraine Matters. aged 13, of the Zine Corporation cottage, collided yesterday afternoon with a bicycle ridden…

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Man Shot Dead; Wife Seriously Injured

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 May 1936 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Allan James Stewart (51) died instantly from a bullet wound in the head inflicted in a motor car in Isaac-street,…

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Attention for Injured W.I.U. To Approach Mine Managers

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 May 1936 · page 2

Medical attention on the mines for injured men was discussed at the fortnightly meeting of the W.J.U. held last night, and it was decided to…

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Motor Vehicles in Collision

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 May 1936 · page 4

Shortly before 10.45 o'clock last night two motor vehicles collided at the intersection of Argent and Chloride streets. A stand taxi cab…

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Drowned After 300ft. Fall

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 May 1936 · page 3

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), May 21.— Slipping on ice while climbing Mount Ruapehu Janies Gordon, a solicitor, fell 300 feet into Crater Lake. He…

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Mr. J. H. Wilson's Death Accidental Is Finding of Coroner Knocked Down By Cyclist

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 1

That John Henry Wilson had died from hypostatic pneumonia, given rise to by a fracture of the femur, an injury accidentally received by having been knocked down by a cyclist, was the finding given by the coroner (Mr. R. Donaldson) in the Coroner's Court…

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Accidental Death, Says Coroner

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 May 1936 · page 3

BELLINGEN, Friday—The inquest concerning the deaths of Richard Henry Morris and Victor Oswald Proud, of Sydney, following a…

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Worried by Coroners Comments Three Cyclists Visit Police Statements on Fatality

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 3

The caustic comment of the coroner (Mr. R. Donaldson) in giving his verdict at the inquest on Mr. J. H. Wilson who died in the Hospital…

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Worried by Coroner's Comments Three Cyclists Visit Police Statements on Fatality

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 May 1936 · page 3

The caustic comment of the coroner (Mr. R, Donaldson) in giving his verdict at the inquest on Mr. J. H. Wilson who died in the Hospital…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Collision With Car In Oxide-street

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 May 1936 · page 3

Suffering from extensive head injuries and bleeding profusely from wounds about the face, Jack Dunstan, about 21, of Jones-street, West…

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Four Thought Drowned Used Same Boat As Thompson Bros. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 May 1936 · page 2

Four fishermen who left Newport on Saturday in the boat used by the Thompson brothers when they disappeared, are believed to have been…

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Injured Motor Cyclist's Condition

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 May 1936 · page 3

The condition of Jack Dunstan, of Jones-street, West Broken Hill, who was injured when the motor cycle he was riding came into collision with a…

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Man's Memory Lapse Open Verdict In Car Fatality MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 May 1936 · page 6

An open verdict was returned by the City Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.) to-day at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Sylvia Spark…

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Condition of Accident Victim Satisfactory

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 May 1936 · page 3

Jack Dunstan, of Jones-street. West Broken Hill, who was injured on Monday afternoon when his motor cycle came into collision with a car,…

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Seven Men Drowned Colliery Disaster In Wales (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, Mav 26

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 May 1936 · page 6

It is feared that seven men have been drowned in a colliery disaster in South Wales. While twenty men of the day shift were at work to-day in…

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Metal Worker Injured When Gauge Bursts

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 May 1936 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday.— Andrew Holmes(27), a metal worker met with a terrible accident to-day when a pressure gauge burst directly in…

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Metal Worker Injured When Gauge Bursts

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 May 1936 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday. — Andrew Holmes (27), a metal worker, met with a terrible accident to-day when a pressure gauge burst directly in…

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Mr. H. Mahoney Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 June 1936 · page 3

The depot superintendent of the Vacuum Oil Company (Mr. H. Mahoney) is at present in the Hospital suffering from a badly gashed…

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