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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 66

Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 March 1935 · page 2

Robert Samuel Wornes, c/o J. Ryan, Albury, fell from a cycle he was riding from Albury to Wodonga early on Saturday evening and…

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Fatal Motor Collision Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 March 1935 · page 2

Norman Manallack, 22, of Barkly street, East Brunswick, was injured when a motor car and a motor cycle collided in Swanston street, Carlton,…

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Motor Cyclists Seriously Injured Crash During Race Ballarat

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 March 1935 · page 2

Smashing into a fence at nearly 70 miles per hour, two riders were seriously injured at the Ballarat centenary motor cycle grass track…

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Shockingly Injured Married Man Succumbs Struck By Police Patrol Car SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 March 1935 · page 2

Knocked down by a police patrol car, the “Blue Bird,” at Newtown last night. William James Burns, 42, a married man,…

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Hay Train Derailed. Near Whitton. Nine Trucks Off Line. No Passengers Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 March 1935 · page 2

One of the most serious accidents which have occurred on the Hay—Narrandera line occurred yesterday, to the ordinary mixed train, on its…

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Injured by Circular Saw

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 2

Mr. Tom Griffith, of “Delaware,” suffered an injury yesterday when his thumb touched the teeth of a revolving circular saw. The top was cut…

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Wheat Trucks in Collision. Litigation Follows

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 4

As an outcome of a collision between two wheat trucks, on a wet, slippery road, near Warragoon, on 3rd January, Richard Chanter, of…

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Truck’s Wild Career Dance Party in Accident Five Seriously injured TATURA

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 1

Going- into a wide skid on the Murchison road near, Tatura at.. 1.40 a.m. to-day a motor truck, conveying 25 young people home from a…

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Car Driver for Trial, Early Morning Fatality Women Killed Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 6

Returning from a New Year’s Eve party between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on January 1, Lily Angela McDonald, 88 home duties, and her husband,…

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Yerong Greek a Motoring Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 5

A big scena Scar, driven by Mr Meigel; of The Rock who was accompanied by his wife and family stock a culvert- opposite the public…

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Bomb Explodes Five Men and a Boy Injured Calcutta, March 12

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 1

Five men and a boy were seriously Injured by the explosion of a bomb in the crowd which was witnessing an Indian wedding procession in…

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Engines Meet Head-on Collision Near Bridge No One Injured Brisbane, Thursday

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 7

Two [?] met in a head-on collision almost on Normanby bridge half a [?] from Roma bridge, this morning. Considerable damage was…

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Dance Party in Accident Five Seriously Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 45

Going into a wide skid on the Murchison-road near Tatura (Vic.) at 1.40 a.m. on Tuesday, a motor truck, conveying 25 young people home from…

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Wangaratta Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 7

Percy Williams. 29, of Sale, was riding a motor cycle along Yarrawonga. read when the machine struck a hole, Williams was thrown heavily…

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Child Drowned. Near Newcastle Silo. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 3

Francis Gilroy, aged 5, was playing with a number of other children on the site of the Newcastle terminal wheat silo, when he slipped and fell…

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Whaling Accident. Man Has Legs Broken Capetown, March 13

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 7

The Thorshavn, belonging to the Lurs Christenson Whaling Company made a two-hour call at Capetown to land a man who was struck by a…

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Almost Drowned 6 Persons Luckily Escape Launch Wrecked Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 1

When a small launch was smashed to pieces on the rocks near Clovelly beach late this afternoon six persons had…

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Fatally Injured Knocked Down by Car Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 4

Albert Davies, 37, laborer, late of Crown street, Richmond, was knocked down by a motor car at the junction of Church and Highett streets,…

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At Wedding Fireworks Explode Fifty Persons Injured Calcutta, March 1[?]

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 4

An explosion of fireworks at an Indian wedding was responsible, for 50 persons being seriously injured in a village in the State of Ude[?]pur…

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Cows “Play Up” Cyclist’s Eye Gouged Out Another Man Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 1

Taking fright, a cow charged George Miller, 29, of Auburn, as he was riding his motor cycle through Auburn to-day. One of the cow’s…

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