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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Fatal Accidents. Sydney, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 2

Joseph Peart (30), while engaged with a number of other men erecting an electric light pole, at Newcastle, fell to the ground, a distance of 35 feet,…

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Car Accident Well-known Amateur Rider Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 3

While proceeding from Oaklands to Boree Creek yesterday a motor car, driven by Mrs. Carmichael, with her husband and Mr. and Mrs. W. Gaffney,…

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Military Trainees Injured. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 2

Six trainees and an army officer were more or loss seriously injured when a lorry conveying them from Liverpool Camp crashed into a pole…

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Another Aeroplane Fatality. One Man Burned to Death. MELBOURNE, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 2

The list of air tragedies was added to this afternoon, when Flying Officer Herbert Warland was burned to death when his plane crashed six miles…

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Motor Car Accident. a Driver Arrested. SYDNEY, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 2

When two motor cars collided at Randwick, last night, Harold Baker received shocking injuries and was removed to hospital in a critical…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 2

Whilst cranking up his car at Howlong on Monday afternoon, Mr. Geo. Rooke, rabbiter, had the misfortune to have one of his arms broken owing to…

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Motor Car Fatality at Bogan Gate. Sydney. Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 March 1929 · page 3

Captain G. C. Wilson, one of the most daring aviators in Australia, was driving with a number of others in a car, near Bogan Gate, last night,…

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Motor Accident. Three Men Badly Injured

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 5

After attending a wedding at Tocumwal on Wednesday last, John Savage, Jame[?] M’Grath and Ronald M’Millan were…

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Motor Car Fatality. Two Men Killed. MELBOURNE, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 March 1929 · page 1

Alexander McColl and William Stelins were killed when a motor car in which they were travelling, struck a culvert and overturned at Kerang…

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Man Severely Injured By a Cow. Sydney, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 19 March 1929 · page 2

While George Dressy, a storekeeper, was crossing a paddock, at Alexandria, this morning, he was attacked by an infuriated cow, which gored him…

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Serious Canadian Railway Collision. Twenty Lives Lost. TORONTO

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 March 1929 · page 2

Twenty are dead, including 13 passengers, and five were seriously injured in head-on collision between two Canadian National trains, on…

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Thrown From Train Passenger's Close Escape Choirmaster Injured

The Independent · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 1

When the Echuca Deniliquin motor train lure[?]red hea[?]ily at the carve in the rails, just before running into Deniliquin station on Saturday Mr…

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A Bad Accident. Ends Fatally

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 3

On Tuesday last a well-known Berrigan farmer, Mr [?]eter Formby, met with a serious accident He was taking home a…

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Fatal Motoring Accident Sydney

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 5

Thrown out of his mother's arms as the car overturned three times, a six month's old baby, Keith Booth, was fatally injured after a collision…

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The Woronora Boating Fatality. The Survivor's Story. SYDNEY. Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 March 1929 · page 4

George Haines, the sole survivor of the boating fatality at Woronora River, in a statement, said they had three bottles of wine in the boat. "All…

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Fatality at the Harbour Bridge. Workman Falls 150 Feet. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 March 1929 · page 4

Thomas McKeoan (48), a rigger, was killed at the North Shore Bridge. He dropped 150 feet, owing to his slipping and falling from a chain…

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Local Family in Sydney Motor Collision. Little Boy Killed. SYDNEY, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 March 1929 · page 2

Our Sydney correspondent wires that Keith Booth, the seven months' old son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Booth, of Hay, and latterly of Jerilderie, was…

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Brisbane Wharf Accident. The Canberra Crashes Into Structure BRISBANE, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 March 1929 · page 4

The steamer, Canberra, was caught by the tide while being moored at Boundary Street wharf, to-day, and crashing into the wharf, caused…

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Serious Ferry Accident. And Splendid Rescue. SYDNEY, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 April 1929 · page 2

When a motor car slipped off Boyd's Bay ferry, Tweed Heads, into ten feet of water, Urban Reynolds, aged 17, who was in charge of the…

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