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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Flung Into Mining Shaft Incident When Horse Shies Woman Is Drowned Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 August 1934 · page 7

When a horse drawing a jinker shied at a traction engine near Smythesdale to-day, Mrs. Thomas Burridge and her daughter, Mrs…

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A Terrifying Experience Youth’s Foot Caught in Lift Accident in Factory Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 August 1934 · page 1

Raymond Wa[?] 16, a junior store-man had a terrifying experience to-day when his left foot was jammed between a lift and the side of the lift…

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Motorists in Accident Silent About Names

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 August 1934 · page 4

A car conveying a driver and four passengers, travelling from Sydney to Wagga, overturned when descending Tarcutta Hill, near Lower Tarcutta…

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Plane Crashes Five Men Slightly Injured Officials “Hush, Hush” Attitude, Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1934 · page 2

Two airmen were injured, both slightly, when a Wapiti [?] ‘plane crashed into soft ground adjacent to the Richmond aerodrome…

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Jumped to Her Death To Evade Man Girl Fatally Injured MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1934 · page 1

Accosted by a stranger in the 10.18 o’clock train to Oakleigh last night, two sisters, aged 12 and 13 years, jumped out as the train was moving…

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Postmaster Injured

The Independent · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 2

While assisting a friend to instal a wireless aerial in a tree, Mr. P. E. Moorfield, postmaster at Deniliquin, met with a painful accident during the…

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“To Clear Brother S Name” New Inquest Ordered Sequel to Road Collision Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 1

To remove the Imputation of gross [?] on the part of their brother. Richard Ray Dodd. 27, farmer of [?] who was killed in a…

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Accident at Weir

The Independent · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 2

[?] spell without any [?] of occurring at [?] a mishap [?] Saturday…

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Fell From Train. a Girl's Accident SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 2

A girl who was found lying on the side of the railway track, near Allawah Station, hist night, has been identified as Myrtle Dorothy Ford (18)…

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Double Disaster Eight Persons Dead an Astonishing Accident Paris, August 20

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 1

An astonishing twofold accident occurred last night at Pont de Lardeche, In southern France. A motor cyclist, who had a pillion…

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Struck by Train Ganger Critically Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 3

Suffering from Internal injuries and fractured this after being struck by an electric parcels van near Toorak station today. Alfred Gaylord…

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Two Men Killed Track Over Bank Eight Others Injured SEYMOUR

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 2

Two men who were killed last night when a motor lorry crashed over a six foot embankment on the Hume Highway at Seymour, were…

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Killed by Jockey’s Car Occurrence Was Accidental Fitter and Turner’s Death Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was recorded at the conclusion of an inquiry into the death of Harold Dawson 26, filter and turner of Concord…

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Bowes and Ames Injured :: England 321 :: Australia 2 for 186 Her Best Batsmen Fail England in Precarious Position Leyland Plays Delightfully Bradman and McCABE Score Well London, August 21

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 1

With five of her best batsmen out for less than 150-runs, England’s hopes of reaching. Australia’s huge total were dashed to the ground before lunch in the third day’s play of the fifth Test match at the Oval to-day. Three wickets had fallen in 25 minutes for the addition of only 21 runs…

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Almost Drowned Boat Capsizes in Flooded Creek Clung to Bough Narrandera

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 1

A man named Smirling was thrown into the water last night when his boat capsized while he was attempting to cross a flooded creek. He was…

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When the Bluebell Sunk Captain’s Story of Collision Three Lives Were Lost Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 1

Giving evidence in the Marine Court to-day Captain G. G. Manson, master of the Waraneen, said the reason he did not see the ferry…

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Drowning at Balranald

The Independent · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 2

The body of Harold John McGrath, dentist, of Balranald, who had been missing since July 24, was on Friday last discovered floating in the…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning at Narrandera

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 5

A man named Smirling was flung into the water last night when his boat' capsized while he was attempting to cross a flooded creek. He was…

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Injured Farmer's Fortitude

The Independent · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 2

After he had been struck by a falling tree on his farm, in the Rockhampton district, Mr. Edward Thompson, aged 55 years,-crawled two miles…

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Injured at Work Farmer’s Terrible Ordeal

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 2

With his left leg broken below the knee, Arthur Morgan, a North Casino farmer, crawled half a mile before his cries were heard at his home, another…

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