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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

997 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 50

Handcuffed Youth. Desperate Leap From Train Injured Against Sleeper

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 October 1932 · page 6

A handcuffed prisoner, aged 19 years, narrowly escaped death on Saturday morning, when he jumped from a train travelling at about 40 miles an hour…

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Leap from Bridge. Woman Fatally Injured Police Launch Nearby

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 October 1932 · page 6

A woman, who was later identified as Mrs. Ethel Edith Rosalind Lee, of General Holmes-drive, Brighton-le-Sands, was killed on Saturday afternoon when…

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Kill by Train South Goast Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 October 1932 · page 1

While running along the train line near Coniston station last night, Frederick Terry (22), moulder, was run down by a train and…

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Car Wrecked Camperdown Accident Struck by Tram Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 October 1932 · page 2

A motorist was badly curt and several tram passengers shaken severely, when a motor car collided with a tram in Parramatia-road,…

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Rumanian Train Smash 24 Dead and Many Injured. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Bucharest

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 October 1932 · page 1

A train was derailed at the station of Tenischoria. Seventeen corpses have been dragged from .the wreckage, and 14 of the injured were taken to…

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Caught in Lathe Steel Works Accident NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1932 · page 3

J. E. Masey (30), a turner at the B.H.P. Stool Works, last night had his hand caught in a lathe and was being dragged towards the bolting…

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Seaman Injured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1932 · page 7

A Lascar seaman, on the british India Steamer Quill[?], fall fom the Sheller dock into the main hold to-day. He was taken to hospital with…

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N.Z. FATALITY Collapsed in Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1932 · page 5

Ralph J. Arnold, aged about 40, a canvassor died in the Auckland Hospital a few hours after admission, as a result of cerebral…

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Man Buried Gravel Pit Fatality MORE[?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1932 · page 4

When several tons of earth fell upon him while working in a gravel pit, at Blunigny, near Mor[?], John Johnston Mc[?]osh, a gravel…

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Car in Creek Courageous Driver Three Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1932 · page 1

Three persons were Injured, one seriously, when a car crashed through a bridge over South Creek, St. Marys, this morning, foiling 20 feet Into the…

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Remarkable Accident on South Coast Two Hurt Skidding Cycle One May Die Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1932 · page 1

A shocking accident occurred near Miranda, on the way to the South Coast, last night, as a result of which two…

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Accidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 October 1932 · page 4
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Tibby Burns met with a nasty accident on Tuesday night and sustained a broken leg. He had driven a motor lorry, belonging to Messrs. J…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1932 · page 2

Mr. Geo. Titcume, of Monkerai met with an accident on Monday whilst mustering. His horse put its foot in a rabbit burrow and stumbled…

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Accident at Abermain Compensation Claim Against Council

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 October 1932 · page 3

Keareley Shire Council last night received a letter from H. Ellenor, intimating that he intended to make a claim against the council for…

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Richmond Main Mmr's Sudden Death Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 October 1932 · page 7

The Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) conducted an inquiry at the Kurri Court yesterday into the circumstances surrounding the death…

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Reynolds Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1932 · page 7

A communication from is Royno[?] the Sydney jockey, who, two months age, [?]cepied an engagement to ride in India, states that he…

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Gar's Wild Dash After Collision Motor-cyclists Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 October 1932 · page 2

When a motor car and a motor cycle came into collision at an intersection at Prahran, near Melbourne, yesterday, Frank White, aged 21, of Princess-st.,…

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Cars Collided Woman Severely Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 October 1932 · page 6

On Sunday evening, Mrs. A. Wood, 62, of Raymond Terrace, was admitted to Newcastle Hospital, suffering from conclusion, probable fracture of…

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Tom Mix Injured by Horse Hollywood (Cal.)

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 October 1932 · page 2

Tom Mix, the veteran star of Western films, was seriously injured to-day when his horse tripped and fell upon him in filming a scene at Lone Pine…

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