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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Aeroplane Collision in Egypt Four Airmen Killed. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

The Air Ministry has announced, that two Avro planes collided at the Abusueir training school, Egypt. Four were killed. These included Flight…

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Sensational Fire at Melbourne Blacking Factory Burned at Richmond. an Employee Burned to Death. Three Firemen Injured. MELBOURNE, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

One man lost his life and five others, including three firemen, were injured in a sensational fire which gutted the premises of the Boston…

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A Peculiar Accident. Sydney, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

A young man who was admitted to Sydney Hospital, is stated to have been walking about for a week with, his neck broken in two places…

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Harvesting Accident Chiltern Farmer Has Eye Removed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

Mr. W. Devitt, farmer of Barnawartha, has had the misfortune to suffer the loss of an eye. WHILE mending the belt of a…

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Two Brothers Drowned. Sydney, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

Two brothers, Lionel and Raymond Eisenmanger (32 and 29, respectively) were drowned at Alexander Heads (Queensland), while fishing. It is…

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Rescue at Wangaratta Fully Clothed Man Effects Save From Drowning

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 3

Whist crowds were making merry at the dance palais at the Junction swimming pool at Wangaratta, a young man, a stranger to the town,…

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Drowned in Murray Son of Presbyterian Minister 17-Year-old Bank Clerk N 12 Feet Hole for 20 Minutes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 3

On Sunday afternoon the treacherous Murray River, with its jagged, hidden range and ever changing bed, claimed another…

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Fatal Motor Accident Near Nowra. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

When a motor car overturned on the Jervis Bay Road, yesterday, Mrs. G. Woodhill (61), a well-known resident of the Nowra district, was…

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Accident at Belmont Beach

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 3

Master Jack Leahy, con of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Loahy, of Corowa, was the victim of an unfortunate accident at Beiment Beach on Friday evening last…

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Remarkable Accident Youth's Neck Broken in Two Places

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

Louie Lewis, aged 17 years, of Pool and George Streets, North Bondl, Sydney, has been walking about for over a week with his…

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Accident at Gooramadda

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

When Mr. Jas McGarrigle, of Gooramadda, was attending to his horses on the river flats one lashed out and stick him on the calf of the right…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

On Saturday evening at 8.30 p.m J. Hayoo, Hovell stract, wodon[?] when a dog rushed at him and [?]et…

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Car Over Embankment Three Men Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 15

Three men were injured, two of them critically, when a motor car ran over an embankment and dropped 15ft. close to an overhead bridge at…

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Queensland Boating Disaster Mother and Son Drowned. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

At Caloundra, a Queensland holiday resort, five persons in a boat were carried over the bar, and a mother and her son were drowned…

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Kicked by Horse Young Man Fatally Injured at Urana

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

A riding accident, which resulted in the death of Alfred Jonnings, 20 years, occurred Urana last weekend…

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Seven Men Burned One Dead, Six Injured Explosion Peril

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 27

Seven men were burned, one fatally, when, a fire destroyed the premises, of the Boston Blacking Co. in Church-street, Richmond (Vic), last week…

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March on Abermain Police Charge Rioters Twelve Men Injured; Three Arrested Miners Flee in Disorder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

A march of 2500 men from Cessnock to the Abermain No. 2. colliery on Wednesday morning was broken up by a baton attack by 100 police, acting…

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Woman Killed in Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

Mrs. Arthur penman was killed in a motoring accident at Ben Bullen (N.S.W.), on the road to Mudges. Her husband, who accompanted her in a…

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Another Level Crossing Fatality. Melbourne, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

Malcolm McDonald was driving a motor lorry over a level crossing, near Port Fairy (Vic.), when a Melbourne train came along and collided…

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Car Overturns on Wagga Mangoplah Road Two Men Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 1

TWO men were injured, one seriously, in a motor car smash on the Wagga to Mangoplan road. THE DRIVER of the car was Alex…

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