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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

1,277 stories in Murray's papers · page 57 of 64

Priest Injured Car Crashes Into Tree

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 8

Almost as seriously injured as her two friends when a motor car in which they were travelling crashed into a tree six miles from Bribbaree, near…

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Italian Seamen Killed In Naval Collision. ROME

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 2

It is officially stated that six seamen were killed and one injured in a collision between the Italian cruiser. Pola, and the destroyer,…

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Dam Tragedy Mrs. M. M. E. Fischer Drowned

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 5

Early on Monday morning the body of Mrs. Martha Maria Elizabeth Fischer, wife of Mr. Ernest F. Fischer, of Henty, was found in a dam on the…

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Horse Injured Car Door Handle in Chest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 17

Having apparently jumped out of a paddock during the night, a valuable blood colt, the property of Mr. B. Nevin, of Huon, was found on the road…

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Car Plunges Into Deep Gully Shire President Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 39

Councillor D. M. Brondhead, president of the Mulwaree Shire Council, and well-known district grazier, of Inverary Park, Bungonia, was injured…

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Two Deaths Inquiries Held at Albury Suicidal and Accidental

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 18

Two inquiries into deaths were conducted, by the Albury coroner (Mr. I. Beavers). How Albert James Cessar, 39, met his death from injuries…

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Accident at Daysdale

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 5

Riding along the road at Daysdale yesterday morning at about 9.15 on a bicycle to attend school, Stanley Cool aged 13, had almost reached his…

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Tallangatta Man Loses Arm as Result of Car Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 6

Information reached Tallangatta on Wednesday that Mr. James Lionel Nichol. of “Cascade,” Tallangatta Valley, had been seriously injured in a…

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Thrown From Horse and Fatally Injured Well-known Wodonga Farmer MR. P. H. HECKENDORF

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 November 1938 · page 6

Burial of. Mr. P. H. Heckendorf, of “Willow Park.” Wodonga, who was killed in tragic circumstances on Thursday took place in Wodonga cemetery…

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Unknown Man Killed in Car Crash Accident Near Euroa Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 November 1938 · page 5

The driver of a sedan car was killed instantly and another man was dragged unconscious from the blazing wreckage, when a car with a N. S. W…

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Items of News Little Girl Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 November 1938 · page 2

Helena Hilton, aged 10, was treated at Albury District Hospital on Saturday afternoon for abrasions and shock. She was accompanying her father. Mr…

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Collision at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 November 1938 · page 3

A collision occurred on Saturday evening last at the corner of Brown's Plains, road and Main Street, Rutherglen between a motor cycle ridden…

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Shearer Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 29 November 1938 · page 4

Mr. Norrie Dunn, of End street [?] Deniliquin, a well-known shearer, [?] tained painful injuries this [?] while at work at Booabula station. [?]…

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Motor Cyclist Killed When Tyre Bursts Two Others Injured Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 November 1938 · page 3

When a motor cycle tyre burst, causing the machine in which they were riding to crash into a lorry in Kingsway Carrinbar this…

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Accident Victim Dies Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 November 1938 · page 7

Frederick Edwards, 59, of Bridge road, Richmond, who was struck by a motor car in Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, on Saturday night, died in…

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Lorry Driver Nearly Drowned Wellington (N.z.), Tues

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 3

H. Christensen, the driver of a motor truck, barely escaped drowning when the vehicle crashed through the rails of a bridge over a river. The…

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Four Men Killed in Car-lorry Collision Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 1

When a car and a lorry collided at Gepp’s Crossing this evening four men were killed and four injured. All were employes of the…

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Young Wife Killed Husband Critically Injured Car Crashes Into Tree Tamworth

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 1

Mrs. Barbara Dyball, aged 21, was killed outright and her husband Harold Frederick Dyball aged 27, general manager and secretary of Radio…

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To Prevent Accidents at Dangerous Corners

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 2

So that collisions between vehicular traffic al dangerous corners may be eliminated, the Chamber of Commerce asked Albury Municipal Council at its…

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Industrial Accident Peak on Mondays Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 1

Workers’ compensation insurance premiums increased from £1,955,819 to £2,411,049 during the year ended June 30 last, according to the annual…

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