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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 56 of 66

Six Drowned Car Party Trapped in Creek

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1935 · page 39

A motor car containing five or six passengers was overwhelmed by flood waters in a creek five or six miles south, of Quorn (S.A.) on the…

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"Hit and Run" Fatality. Two Young Women Struck Down. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 October 1935 · page 1

Mavis Carew (20) was killed instantly and Ruby Wyper (25) badly injured when they were struck by a "hit and run" motor driver in…

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Truck Crashes Into Fence Man Thrown Out and Critically Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1935 · page 6

A serious accident occurred on the Shepparton-road, near Benalla (Vic). Harold William Wilson, an employe of the Neway Benalla Transport Co., was…

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Cup Jockey Hurt R. Parsons, in Smash Car Somersaults, Following , . Collision SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 October 1935 · page 2

Jockey R. parson; who intruded leaving foe Melbourne tonight to ride Allunga in the Melbourne Cup, and the horse trains…

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Pea-rifle Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1935 · page 12

While rabbit shooting with two mates, Len Coleman, 14 years, of Narraburra, was accidentally shot in the back with a pea rifle bullet. Another…

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Sewer Worker Killed. Buried by Fall of Earth. Fatality at Wangaratta. WANGARATTA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 October 1935 · page 4

This morning, a little after 11 o’clock, Edward Bridge, aged 30, was buried by a fall of earth in a sewerage trench near the…

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WAHGUNYAH Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 October 1935 · page 6

While going to their work at Chiltern from Wahgunyah, four men were thrown from a motor truck when turning a corner. Mr. W…

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Aftermath of Hurricane Hundreds Drowned Cuba Swept Auprince (Haiti), October 27

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 October 1935 · page 1

As the aftermath of a tropical, hurricane, which swept Cuba last weekend hundreds are reported to have been drowned in the interior,…

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Neck Fractured Ambulance Officer’s Fall Was on Way to Attend on Injured Person LITHGOW

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 October 1935 · page 1

Charles Field, 34, a member of the Lithgow Ambulance Brigade, was critically injured yesterday when he fell from his bicycle in…

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Child Drowned. Fall Down a Shaft. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 October 1935 · page 2

Walter Greeves, aged 11, fell to the bottom of a shaft filled with water, at Hoffmans brick works, West Brunswick. The body was recovered…

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Accident on Sunday. Old Act Quoted

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1935 · page 1

The Sunday Observance Act of 1677 wan [?] by Judge Perdrian at Sydney last week In giving judgment in a compensation claim,…

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Accountant Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 October 1935 · page 6

Edward Hanlon 46 accountant of Five Dock. was injured to-day when a wall collapsed at David Jones’ store in George [?] during rebuilding…

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Man Fatally Injured Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 October 1935 · page 1

William John. Alberts, 34, was struck by a motor truck as he stepped off a Doomben bus at Eagle Farm at noon to-day. He died while…

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Service ‘Plane Crashes Cadet Critically Injured Echoca

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 October 1935 · page 4

Piloted by Air-Cadet B. R. Walker, of the Royal Australia Air Force, a Wapiti crashed here this afternoon. Walker was thrown from the…

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Tram Collision. Three Persons Injured. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 3

Three persons were injured this morning, when two trams collided in Macpherson-Street, Waverley. The pole of one tram snapped, leaving the…

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Head-on Collision American Consul and Wife Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 14

Mr. John W. Dye, consul for the United States in Victoria, his wife and two other persons were injured in a head-on collision between a motor…

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Two Children Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 16

Walking from a sand bar on which they were playing, two children of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Power, Haythorpe station, Menindee, near Broken Hill,…

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Crushed to Death. Wahgunyah Fatality Accident in Trucking Yards

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 1

James King 45, of Elizabeth street Wahgunyah was crushed between the buffers of two trucks while loading sheep at Wahgunyah railway yards…

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Show Judge Injured by Boar

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 11

While Mr. J. J. Baker, of Bannockburn, was judging pigs at the annual show of the Camperdown Pastoral and Agricultural Society, he was attacked…

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Boys Death Follows Collision Motorist Charged Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 November 1935 · page 2

Leslie scrimshaw 15. suffered a compound fracture of the skull last night when his bicycle and a car collided at Leichhardt He was…

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