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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

243 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 13

Fearful Railway Accident. Father Witnesses His Son's Death. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 2

William Peters, 17, and his father yesterday afternoon jumped off a train conveying miners from Pelaw Main to Richmond Main, near Kurri…

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Latest Telegrams. Serious Harbor Accident. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 2

The community was to-day stirred by a serious ferry accident, one elderly woman being killed, two relatives seriously injured, and a baby…

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Latest Telegrams. the Sydney Ferry Crash. Injured pother Dies. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 September 1924 · page 2

Mrs. Eileen Murphy, aged 22 years, of Petersham, who was very seriously injured in the ferry accident at Circular Quay on Thursday afternoon…

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Motor Accident at Moree. Taxi Driver Killed

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 September 1924 · page 2

At Moree a horse and motor car accident took place on Saturday. The car overturned, and Arthur Ward taxidriver, was killed. Three…

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Motor Car Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 3 September 1924 · page 2

Moree.—In a horse and motor car accident on Saturday a car overturned and Arthur Ward, taxi driver, was killed and three other passengers were injured…

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Fatal Motor Collision

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 1

Frank Howard, 27, married, was killed last night, when his motor cycle collided with a motor bus at Annandale…

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Motor Accident in Tasmania. Young Man Killed. HOBART

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 2

A motor car overturned in the Richmond district. Mervyn Herlis was killed. Constable Goss was pinned underneath all night, the car…

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Fatal Drowning Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 September 1924 · page 3

On Tuesday last Messrs. Charles Sandford, Ernest [?]. Dillet and Zadok Willett went rabbiting on the flooded flats at Caldwell's property, Britain…

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Fatal Accident at Wagga. a Boy Killed

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 September 1924 · page 2

George Taylor, 12, was killed in a cycle collision at Wagga on Saturday night. Young Taylor was sent on a message to the butcher's, and on the…

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Caught in Machinery. An English Operative Seriously Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 September 1924 · page 1

A young Englishman, Richard Quartermain, 27, was critically injured this morning through being caught in the machinery at the Goulburn…

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Latest Telegrams. a Ferry Collision. At Neutral Bay. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 September 1924 · page 2

A smash occurred at 9 o'clock to-day at Neutral Bay, when two of the Sydney Perries Limited's steamers, the Kosciusko and the Kurraba,…

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Millions From Useless Wool a Young Man's Accidental Discovery

The Independent · Friday 12 September 1924 · page 4

A short time ago it was reported that a £4,000,000 company was to take over the Saltaire Mills. It was not a particularly striking…

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Serious Burning Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 September 1924 · page 2

A serious burning accident occurred at Butherwah Station, near Lockhart, on Wednesday last. One of the domesti[?] was making floor polish when the…

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Fatality at Moree. Hospital Patient Gets Away and is Found Dead. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 September 1924 · page 2

At Moree J. Murray, 42, a patient in the local hospital, disappeared at one o'clock yesterday morning. Three hours later his body was found near…

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Sewer Worker's Accident Dynamite Explosion

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 September 1924 · page 1

Frank Liddy, rockchopper, had the right side of his face blown off by a dynamite explosion, in a sewer, where he was working at Mosman, to-day…

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A Collision at Lidcombe. Lorry and Sulky

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 October 1924 · page 6

A motor lorry and a sulky collided at Lidcombe last night. Harold Jensen, 20, fractured his skull and sustained lacerations, and Doris Starr…

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Railway Accident at Mayence. Ten Persons Killed. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 October 1924 · page 6

A Reutor's message from Cologne states that 10 persons were killed and 32 injured in a railway collision in a tunnel outside Mayence, between…

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Drowning Fatality

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1924 · page 2

Early on Thursday morning. 16th inst., a mes[?] was received from Hartwood Station that an old man named "Ned" Taylor, employed…

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A Sad Fatality

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1924 · page 3

A serious accident occurred at tho local railway yard on Monday afternoon. Mr Tom Prosser, son of Mrs H. Prosser, was…

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Motor Cyclist Injured. Found Unconscious on Road. Near Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 October 1924 · page 3

A man was found lying unconscious one morning last week on the Howlong-road, near the Horseshoe Lagoon. A motor cycle which had evidently…

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