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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 35 of 66

Boy Fatally Injured. Struck by Car Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 July 1935 · page 2

Thomas Hawkins, 15, of Balaclava road. Caulfield, was struck and knocked down by a motor car at the junction of Glenferrie road and Stanhope…

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Boy’s Fall From Balcony Fatally Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 July 1935 · page 2

Thomas R. Skinner, 12, of Boundary street, Port Melbourne, was fatally injured yesterday, when he fell head first from the roof of the Rising…

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Car and Tram Collide Four Persons Injured. Wedding Party Held Up Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 July 1935 · page 2

Four persons were injured last night in a collision between a motor car and a tram, in front of St. Mary’s Basilica. They included Henry…

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Children in Pram Lucky Escape When Struck by Car Parents Slightly Injured Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 July 1935 · page 2

While being wheeled in a pram down Beaumont street, Hamilton, last night Warren Bullen, six month’s, and Cepelia Bullen two years, were struck…

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Pavilion Collapses Plunges From Cliff Into Creek OVER 100 People Injured Wilkesbarre (Penns.), June 29

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 July 1935 · page 2

More than one hundred people were injured, some gravely, when nearly. 400 men, women and children plunged over 30 feet into the…

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Shocking Road Fatality Motor Coach Crashes Over Cliff Seven Killed: Many Injured Turin, June 30

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 July 1935 · page 1

Owing to the failure of the brakes seven were killed and many were injured to-day when a motor coach and a tralter, both crammed with…

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Injuries Prove Fatal Boy Hurt in Collision Hay, Monday

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 July 1935 · page 1

As the result of a collision between a cycle he was riding-and a horse and sulky, on Saturday night, Thomas LeFevre, 14, a son of William Henry…

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Train Collision at Penola. Passengers Lucky Escape. ADELAIDE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 July 1935 · page 3

When two trains collided, head on, in a thick fog at Penola railway station, last night, the driver was hurled from one locomotive. Five trucks…

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Collision on Road At Carrathool. Boy Succumbs to Injuries Received

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 July 1935 · page 2

On Saturday evening, at Carrathool, an accident took place on a track across the common, by which Thomas Le Fevre, the 14-year-old…

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Plunged to His Death Prison Escapee Believed Drowned Chase by Warders Wellington (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 July 1935 · page 1

A eaol escapee, Edgar Arthur Petersen, 22, is believed to have lost his to-day when he plunged into the Tongala river to elude warders, who…

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Tragic Explosion 16 Dead; 23 Injured Mue Becomes a Blazing Inferno, CALCUTTA, July 1

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 July 1935 · page 1

As the result of an explosion in the Bihar Colliery at Dhanbad on Sunday 16 miners were killed and 23 were injured The…

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Missing Farmer Drowned Body Found in Dam Heathcote

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 July 1935 · page 5

The body of John, Evans, 55, Knowsley, a farmer, was found in a small dam near the. Heathcote racecourse to-day with the: wrists and legs…

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Truck Passengers Injured Jammed Against Post Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 July 1935 · page 4

Two men riding on the back of a motor truck were injured when the truck slewed around at East Brisbane and jammed them against a…

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Boxer Arrested Sequel to Car Smash Four Persons Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 July 1935 · page 2

As the result of a collision between two cars, in which four persons were injured at Cheltenham on June 22 James Maloney, a boxer, was…

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Accident Injuries Fatal Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 July 1935 · page 5

Frank Dermer, go, of High street, Thornbury, traveller, died in Melbourne Hospital to-day from injuries he received yesterday in a collision…

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Items of News Boree Creek Shooting Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 July 1935 · page 4

An X-ray examination at Wagga revealed that the bullet which penetrated the chest of Mr. F. Power, of Boree Creek, when he stumbled and…

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Collision on Road Carrathool Fatality. The Inquest

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 July 1935 · page 4

The Deputy Coroner, Mr. J. Johnston, held an inquest at Hay, on Wednesday, touching the death of Thomas Le Fevre, the 14-year- old son…

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Road Collision Injuries Cause Death

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 July 1935 · page 2

On Saturday evening at Carrathool, an accident took place on a track across the common, by which Thomas Le Feyre, the 14-year-old son of…

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Boy Dies After Cycle Collision

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 July 1935 · page 2

A lad named Thomas Lelevre, 14 years, was riding his bicycle into Carrathool on Saturday evening last, when he ran into a sulky. He…

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Cloudbursts in Japan Many People Drowned Tokio, June 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 July 1935 · page 11

Cloudbursts occurred to-day in western Japan. The results were especially serious at Osaka, where the Yodo River, overflowed and spread along the…

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