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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

373 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 19

Overseas News Ulm's Flight. Serious Accident in Ireland. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 July 1933 · page 2

Ulm has left for Ireland, whence he will take off on his Atlantic flight. LONDON, Later. While Ulm's plane "Faith in Australia"…

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Delivery Bus Crashes Driver Slightly Injured

The Independent · Tuesday 1 August 1933 · page 1

Failing to negotiate the turn in Davidson Street, North Deniliquin, near the old Victoria Hotel, on Saturday, a light delivery…

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Burning Accident at Carlton Woman Falls into Grate. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 August 1933 · page 3

While playing with children at her home at Carlton, to-day, Mrs. Esther Davis (28), fell against an open grate and was terribly burned. Her…

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Infants Killed Accidentally. Tragic Waste of Precious Lives

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1933 · page 4

It seems scarcely believable that over 120 infants and toddlers are killed accidentally in New South Wales each year. Yet this is the…

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Farm Hand Injured

The Independent · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 1

Stanley Harris, an employee of Mr McAllister, near Finley, was admitted to Deniliquin Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, suffering from an…

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Football Party Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 38

Remarkable escapes from serious injuries were experienced by a party of 14 people travelling to Geelong from Melbourne for the football match…

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Fall of Earth Buckland Prospector Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 8

Robert James Meldrum, a prospector at Buckland, near Bright (Vic), was on Tuesday evening crushed by a fall of earth while working alluvial ground…

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Ulm's Accident in Ireland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 39

While Ulm's 'plane, the Faith in Australia, was being manoeuvred on the planks during refuelling at Portmarnock (Ireland) for the Atlantic…

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Mrs. Fred Lindrum Killed in Car Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 4

When the car in which she was a passenger was sandwiched between two trams at South Melbourne, Mrs. Augusta Lindrum, wife of Fred…

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Albury Mail Accident. Railway Men Not Satisfied with Inquiry. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 1

It was announced, on behalf of the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association that in order to force a public inquiry into the derailment of…

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Fatal Motor Accident Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 August 1933 · page 3

A car being driven last night from Taree to Kempsey, by H. C. Elrington, a prominent stock and station agent, ran over the Cooperabuno mountain,…

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Two Men Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 4

Early on Monday morning the body of Ernest Bates, of Whitebridge, who, with Leslie Clements, of Falsey Bay, had spent Sunday fishing at Port…

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Man Drowned Near Wodonga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 44

Mr. Percival King, aged about 45, who for 35 years had lived in Wodonga and had recently come to reside in Albury, was found drowned in a…

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Tumut Dance Party Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 47

Four members of a party of six, while returning from a dance at Gilmore, were injured when the car, in negotiating a rather sharp bend near…

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Motoring Fatality Car Over Mountain Side Woman Killed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 4

When a car driven by Mr. H. G. Elrington, of Kempsey a brother of [?]Hy. Elrington, of Albury, and late of Balidale, ran over the side of…

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Fatal Collision. On Botany Tram Line. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 1

Early this morning, a heavy motor lorry, loaded with coal, was crossing the tram line, near Botany pier, when it came into collision with a tram…

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Fractured Spine Accident at Barratta Woolshed

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 August 1933 · page 1

FITZHERBERT CLARKSON, shearing expert at Barratta woolshed was very seriously injured yesterday through being caught in…

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Shearing Shed Accident Expert Critically injured

The Independent · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 1

Flung with great force against beam of the shearing [?] and thence to the floor, when his clothing caught in the revolving…

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Car Overturns and Ignites Accident Near Springhurst Five People Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 3

Captain C. B. Dawkins, of Queencliff, and his wife and three young children, were admitted to the Wangaratta Community Hospital about 7…

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A Blayney Fatality. Young Waggoners Death. BLAYNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 2

An eigfihteen-year-old youth, Chas. Oldham, was killed when attempting to apply a brake to a waggon which veered to the side of a bridge. The…

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