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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Car Collision Three People Hurt SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 6

Severe scalp wounds were received by Mrs. Elizabeth Cruickshank 34 of Stanmore when the car in which she was riding with another vehicle at…

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Badly Injured Man Hit by Car KATOOMBA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 1

William Dowdell, aged 22, of Katoonmba, war knocked down by a motor car and gravely injured on the Main Westein-road at Katoomba at 12.15 Mountains District Memorial Hospital with a fractured left thigh and legs, fractured ribs, and abrasions to the head and band. His condition is…

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Aged Man Dies Sequel to Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 1

The death occurred in hospital to-fay Joseph Cowell (79) of Ermington as a result of injuries sustained in an accident last night James…

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More Fatal Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 6

The number of deaths resulting from motor-car accidents in the United States is increasing so rapidly that this year's total will probably…

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Fettler Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 4

During shunting operations at the scene of the derailment on the railway line between Casino and Grafton a number of fetters were in a brake…

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Drowned in the Murrumbidgee

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 4

The body of Mrs J. C. Smith, who disappeured from her home at Hay om Saturday, was found in the Murrumibidgee River, three miles down stream…

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Man Drowned in River Caught in Current

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 1

Mr Albert Beveridge, aged 26, mantiger of the Shell Oil Company depot at Dubbo, was drowned On Sunday in the Macquarie River at Whylandra, nine…

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Girl Drowned Rescuer's Close Call TOOWOOMBA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 1

A girl was drowned, and man narrowly escaped the some fate while endeavouring to rescue her in Lockyer Creek, a few miles out of the town…

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Shark Victims Young Man Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 4

Attacked by a shark, Victor Soden, aged 20, of Canberra, was shockingly mutilated at Milperra, 15 miles up the George's River…

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Five Injured 'Bus—Lorry Collide Tweed Heads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 2

When a service 'bus and a fruit lorry collided on the main road near , Tweed Heads, five persons were injured…

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Fierce Attack Use of Tomahawk? Man Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 2

Andrew Gough, 46, a seaman, was treated at Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon for injuries, which, it is alleged, were caused by a tomahawk…

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Man Killed Car Strikes Bridge Two Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 3

A man was killed and another man and a young woman were injured—the man seriously—when a motor car crashed into a bridge and fell 30 feet…

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Leap for Safety a Runaway Car Woman Injured Grafton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 3

Miss Elsie Fairhall, 24, sustained a gaping wound on the shin, an injury to the right foot, abrasions, and slight concussion, when she jumped from a…

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Fell From Train Woman Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 2

Foiling heavily from an electric train Miss Marjorle Elinor Forbes of Waterloo-road Chullora who is more than 80 years of ago was severely…

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Car Overturns Near Gosford Five People Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

When a sedan motor-car turned over at Pearce's Corner, about a mile from Gosford, on Tuesday night, its five occupants were injured, and were…

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Hit by Car Man Fatally Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

An old-age pensioner Thomas Miller, 71, a resident or Darby-street, Cooks Hill, was knocked down by a motor-car and fatally injured in…

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Man Drowned Before Eyes o f Family Brother Saved Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

Before the eyes of other members of their family, who were silting on the, beach at Frankston, two brothers, Leonard Matthews, 23, and Harold,…

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Motor Accident. Aberdeen-road Smash

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

While returning to Aberdeen from Muswellbrook on Wednesday evening Thomas Lewis sustained injuries when the car he was driving yan over a…

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Freedom From Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

A very pleasing feature of the Christmas and New Year holidays, was the freedom from any serious accidents in the district. Usually at this…

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Weston Woman Hurt Unusual Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 3

An unusual accident befell Mrs. A. Bailey, of Fourth Street, Weston, while she was attending the union sales at Maitland on Wednesday…

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