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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Grazier Injured Left Eye Removed

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

Suffering from serious injury to the left eye, Mr Patrick E. Duffy, grazier, of Wandi Wandi, near Morago, was admitted to the Deniliquin…

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Boy Drowned From Tin Canoe. Sydney, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

Geoffrey Curtis (13), was paddling in a tin canoe, at Elizabeth Bay, when his craft filled with water and sank. The boy was drowned…

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Run Down by a Train. a Man Frightfully Injured. SYDNEY, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

Henry Parr (60), a resident of Ashfield, was run down by a train at Clyde Railway Station, last night, and frightfully injured. Both legs were…

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Queensland Level Crossing Accident. Cairns, Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

Mrs. Grimlisk (48) stepped directly in front of an approaching engine at a level crossing near Malanda Station. Instinctively clutching the bars…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 5

When a motor lorry overturned on the Ashford-Bonshaw road James Perrin, his wife and three-year-old son were thrown out. The boy was…

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Bravery in Shark Fatality. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

At the inquest concerning the death of the youths Colin Stewart, who was attacked by a shark at Bond, the coroner said that words failed him when…

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Remarkable Fatality. a Farmer Killed by an Aeroplane. SYDNEY. Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Death descended on Alf. C. Smith, farmer, at Windsor, with shocking suddenness, to-day. He was working in the field when an aeroplane…

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Fatal Surfing Accident. Melbourne, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Frederick Bannister (20), was Washed out an an improvised surf board at Mentone Beach Victoria, yesterday. He was carried out to sea…

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Fatal Gun Accident. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

While Frederick Martin, 41 was returning from Douglas Park to Enfield, with his family a rifle, with which the party had been shooting…

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Man Fatally Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

James Victor Nicoll, aged 34 years, of Whorouly, met his death on Tuesday afternoon last in a cocking manner. He was engaged with an oil…

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Two Boys Drowned, Sydney, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

Archibald James Bridget (12) and Garnet Riley (9) were drowned when a flat-bottom boat in which they were paddling became waterlogged and…

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Thirteen Injured in Motor Smash. Sydney, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

Thirteen people, mostly women ana children, were more or less seriously injured when a motor lorry capsized near Singleton, yesterday afternoon…

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Motor Accident Near Jindera Driver Fined on Two Charges

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 6

As the result of a motor accident near Jinders, on the Albury Jinders road, on November [?] last, James Archibald Campbell, of Walla Walla…

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Shocking Motor Accident. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

Allc[?] Williams, aged four, and Eathleen Williams, aged 2, sisters, were playing outside their parents home at Willoughby last night when they were…

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River Fatality Indian Drowned in Edward River

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

A sensation was caused on Friday morning about 11 o’clock, at Moulamein, when it was learned that Lal Singh, an Indian hawker, aged about…

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Another Shark Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 3

Harold Wetherfill, aged 18, whilst bathing at Alma Bay, Townville, on Saturday was attacked by a shark receiving terrible injuries. His right…

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Serious Mining Accident. Sydney, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

John Beale, 40, shift boss, was killed, and seven other men seriously injured in a mining accident at Greta Boulder, Kalgoorlie, yesterday…

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Country Edition Telegrams. Two Men Injured in Collision. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

When a motor lorry collided with a telegraph pole at Alexandria, last night, two men were injured. One, Albert James, 28, is in a critical…

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Fatality in Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 3

An accident in the Edwards shaft in the Great Boulder (W.A.) mine resulted in one man being killed and several others injured. They were:—Killed:…

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Level Crossing Fatality. Adelaide

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 7

John Roberts, 21, was killed when train dashed Into his motor cycle at a level crossing at Morphetville(S.A.) last sight His nock was broken and…

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