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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 66

Trains in Smash Disastrous Fire Follows Damage Estimated at £30,000 Accident at Melbourne Suburban Station Station MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 3

When the brakes of an electric train failed on an incline leading to Croydon railway station this morning an empty train rushed…

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Girl Badly Hurt Dean Street Accident Car Strikes Lorry

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 2

Injured in a collision between a motor car in which she was a passenger, and a stationary motor lorry in Dean street late on…

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Fatality at Parkes. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 3

John McCarthy (63), a miner, was found on the line in front of an engine, near Parkes railway station, this morning. He was rushed to…

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Overseas News Fatal Train Collision. Eighteen Killed in Russia. MOSCOW

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 3

Eighteen were killed and nine injured when a passenger train collided, head on, with a freight train at Karamstrogonovo station, near…

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Trains in Collision 18 Killed in Disaster a Russian Tragedy Moscow. February 10

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 3

Eighteen people were lolled and nine injured when a passenger train collided bead on with a freight train at…

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Speedway Smash Two Riders Injured Both in Serious Condition. SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 5

A serious smash occurred at the Speedway Royal at the snow ground to-night, when two riders, locked together crashed through…

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Run Down by Train Miner Fatally Injured Farkes

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 1

John McCarthy, 63, a miner, was run down by a train near the railway station this morning and was fatally injured. The driver of a slowly…

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Car Over Bank Jockey and Girl Killed Five Others Injured Sydney. Wed Morning

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 1

A well-known jockey and a 19. year-old girl were killed, and five seriously injured, when a car [?]urtled over an embank[?]ent and…

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Items of News Women Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 2

Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Clarke, Wilson street gatehouse, was involved in a collision with a car in Dean street yesterday and fortunately escaped…

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Mill Hand Drowned Body in Stream Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 5

The body of Arthur Kendall. 35. married who had been missing from the Northern mills. Erica, since Tuesday morning, was found, in the Tyers…

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Car Overturns Two Five Injured One Victim Was Well-known Jockey SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 1

When a car In-which they were: travelling from Tamworth to Nemingha overturned late last night, Alice Tuckey, 19, and Russell McLeod 31,…

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Accident Victims lmprove

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 2

Miss Molly Andrews, who sustained serious injuries in a motor accident Dean street late last Saturday, regained. consciousness yesterday Her…

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Car Turns Over. Driver Climbs Out of Window Smoking Cigarette Dean Street Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 1

When his car turned completely ever after being Involved In an accident last evening. Mr. Haydn Junghenn garage proprietor, Olive street,…

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Man Injured in Explosion

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 6

Charles Harahan, 63, of Elizabeth street, had a lucky escape yesterday when, a charge of gelignite exploded when ho was in close range…

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Cars in Collision in Tallangatta Street

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 6

A motor Collision involving several person occurred at Tallangatta on Wednesday evening Mr. Allan Wood had been engaged to drive the Misses…

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Max Terribly Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 1

Thomas Walmsley, 35, plumber, received terrible injuries to-day when he fell 30 feet from the top of a ladder on to an awing at an hotel in…

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More Electrical Storms in Sydney. Boy Drowned in Swollen River

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 2

Further storms took place in Sydney on Wednesday, and damage was done in the suburbs. A flash of lightning struck the high-tension wires at…

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Kitten Under Tram Causes Fatal Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 35

After they had rescued a kitten which had run beneath a stationary tram during a storm on Saturday night a man was killed in Pyrmont…

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Victorian Ministers Hurt in Accident Motor Car Strikes Tree

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 32

Skidding on the wet road surface after it had struck another motor car, a Government car carrying the Minister for the Interior (Mr…

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Trains in Smash Damage Estimated at £30,000 Accident at Melbourne Suburban Station

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 10

When the brakes of an electric train failed on an incline leading to Croydon (Vic.) railway station on Sunday morning, an empty train rushed through…

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