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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Pearlers Believed Lost Dashing Display Given j Over Oakbank Fences Hundreds Injured at Darwin Homeless Chinese Will Suffer Hardships

Barrier Miner · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

Hundreds of white people in the town received minor injuries when they were struck by flying sheets of iron and broken timber. The Chinese section of the town waa practically razed to the ground, and this…

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Cyclist Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 1

While riding his bicycle along Rakow-street about 8 o'clock last night Bernard Power fell and sustain[?] a probable fracture of the…

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Motor Vehicles in Collision

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 1

A collision between a motor car driven by Thomas Reece of 8[?] Wick[?][?]tr[?]t, and a motor cycle occurred in Bromide-street yesterday afternoon…

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Man Drowned While Crayfishing

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday—Ernest Alfred Milnes (26), of Stalker, was crowned in the presence of his wife near Cape Otway. Milnes slipped…

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Miners Injured In Cage

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 3

While descending a shafts at the British mine to-day four employees suffered injuries when a piece of steel fell into the cage. One man,…

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Was Lorry Driven Negligently? Echo of Blende-street Collision

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 1

EVIDENCE that a motor lorry had crashed into a stationary car parked outside the Ozone Theatre, Blende-street, two months ago, and that the driver had accelerated after the accident and driven away was…

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Factory Explosion In Manila 24 KILLED; 21 INJURED

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 3

MANILA (Philippine Is.). Mar. 15 AT least 24 people are known to be dead, and 21 (four of whom are expected to die) have…

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Car Collision S.m.dismisses One Case (Continued from Page 1)

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 3

The charges of having driven negligently and having failed to stop after an accident against Edward Patrick Ivers were continued before…

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One Drowned in Floods North Coast Towns Surrounded SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 1

A message from the North Coast last night stated that there was danger from floods in-several areas. William Lane (17) of Coffs…

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Motor Vehciles in Collision

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 4

Luckily no one was injured when a motor car and utility truck collided at the intersection of Chapple and Oxide streets yesterday afternoon…

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Woman Found Injured Widow Of Former Local Mayor

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 3

BELIEVED to have fallen and injured her head, Mrs. J. Long, of Heubard-street, South Broken Hill, widow of a former Mayor of Broken…

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Car Passenger Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 March 1937 · page 1

A passenger in a car involved in an accident on the South-road on Saturday night, Bert Knill, was knocked unconscious,and admitted to Ward…

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Fatally Injured by Car

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Ernest Lawrence Copsey (24), was fatally injured when struck by a car as he was crossing Hawthorn bridge. The…

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Car Smash Constable's Story About Collision

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 3

FURTHER evidence was heard by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court this afternoon in the case in which a young man has been…

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Coal Miner Seriously Injured

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Donald Anthony (60), a miner employed at the Stockton borehole colliery, was critically injured when entombed by…

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Barrier Miner Wednesday, March 24, 1937. Make This Easter Free From Accidents

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 2

WITH the Easter season dawning, Broken Hill has before it a holiday period more rosy than any holiday time for years. Four clear days'…

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Injured at Work

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 3

A. Mulqueen, an employee at the Zinc Corporation, was treated at the Hospital to-day for an injury to a foot recieved when a stone fell on it…

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Fatal Car Smash Six Passengers Killed Taxi and Tram in Collision Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 1

SIX persons were killed and a woman was critically injured when a fast travelling taxi cab crashed into a tram car in Botany. There was a terrific impact and the taxi cab was so badly smashed…

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Fatal Car Smash Six Passengers Killed Taxi and Tram in Collision Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 7

SIX persons were killed and a woman was critically injured when a fast travelling taxi cab crashed into a tram car in Botany. There was a terrific impact and the taxi cab was so badly smashed…

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Girl Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 4

Joyce Kelly, a small girl, sustained cuts to the face as a result of an accident on the picnic grounds at Silverton before the arrival of the…

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