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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 41 of 66

Terribly Injured Explosion in Quarry Man’s Hours of Agony Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 July 1935 · page 2

Frank Jones, a resident of Kingswood, was terribly injured an explosion of a powder magazine at a quarry at…

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A Tragic Weekend Many Violent Deaths Mother and Babes Perish in Fire Two Brothers Drowned Toll of the Road

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 July 1935 · page 2

This week-end was one of the most tragic for years, and the toll of violent deaths reached an alarming total. In Italy (as reported elsewhere in this issue) 55 persons-mostly girls—lost their lives in an. explosion in a munitions factory, whilst nearer…

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Train Derailed Fifth Accident in Six Months Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 July 1935 · page 6

The fifth railway accident in a little more than six months occurred in the south-east yesterday afternoon, when , a passenger train from Adelaide was…

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Ambulances Kept Busy Many Road Accidents Boy and Girl Killed Woman Terribly Mutilated SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 July 1935 · page 2

Metropolitan and suburban ambulances were kept busy to-day owing to the large number of rod accidents. Two children…

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Film Fire Fatality Caustic Soda Treatment Condemned by Inspector. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 1

Evidence that film cleaning by means of caustic soda and hot water would inevitably result in a fire was given by a senior inspector of…

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Items of News Two Witnesses Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 2

At the Albury Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Eric Cameron, 28 was charged with having .been found drunk on the Howlong road on July…

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Wagon Crashes Into Building Woman Slightly Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 1

A steam wason laden with nine tons of coal commenced to run backwards in the lane off Albion street. City to-day, and crashed Into the…

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Ships Rocket Tragedy How Accident Happened Boys Were Playing at “War” MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 1

Two of the hoys who were seriously injured in last night’s [?] explosion at Williamstown. were operated on to-day. Their…

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Fall of Earth Miner Badly Injured Ambulance Men to the [?] SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 5

Frank McGowan, 32, miner, of Coogee, was badly injured by a heavy fall of earth in a sewerage tunnel at Coogee this afternoon. Two…

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Railwaymen’s Wages An Important Test Case Man Who Was Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 1

A test case of importance to railwaymen was decided by the Fall Court today. Barker Rutter Benson a railway employe, was injured…

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Albury Accident Victim Taken to Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 2

Mr. Edward Hayes, traveller, of [?] street, whose skull was fractured in a motor accident in Smollett street on Monday evening,…

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Two Witnesses Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 47

Eric Cameron, 28, was charged at the Albury police court with having been found drunk on the Howlong road on July 29. Cameron was…

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Two Boys Drowned in Dam

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 16

When an improvised raft on the Imperial dam at Black Lead, near Ballarat (Vic), overturned on Sunday afternoon, Leonard Hargreave, aged 16…

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Woman Injured by Car

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 12

A serious motor accident occurred at Coolamon on Sunday evening, as a result of which Mrs. W. J. Wilson was admitted to hospital. Messrs. Keith…

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Planes in Flames. a Finland Fatality. HELSINGFORS

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 1

Two military bombing planes collided at a height of 1,000 feet and fell in flames. Five of the occupants were killed; two were saved by…

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Petrol Drum Explodes; Man Seriously Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 35

Giovanni de Paoli who was employed on the Berrigan irrigation channels at Mulwala, met with a serious accident on Saturday. He was fixing an empty…

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Boys' Prank Ends Disastrously One Killed; Four Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 33

One boy was killed, another was shockingly mutilated, and three of their companions were seriously injured at Williamstown when a ship's…

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Shed at Quarry Blown Up Man Seriously Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 37

A man entered a shed where explosives were stored at the Concord quarry on Saturday night and struck a match. There was an explosion, a…

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Moving Picture Barge Sunk Camera-man Drowned San Francisco, July 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 11

A message from Santa Barbara (California) states that a barge representing a British warship that was being used in the filming of the "Cruise…

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Mauled by Lioness Injured Trainer Goes on with Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 39

Although Andrew Sole was mauled by a lioness in a circus cage at Newmarket (Qld.) on Saturday morning, he entered a cage of lions and tigers…

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