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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Woman Saved From Drowning Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 3

Swept from the rocks at Bronte today and caught in the strong undertow, Mrs. F. Cassidy, aged 25, of Annandale, was carried 150 yards to sea before…

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Man Killed When Truck Plunges 100 Feet Down Mountainside Three Others Injured. Accident Near Tawonga

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 1

Swerving to avoid a blazing tree trunk -which had rolled down the mountainside, a utility track plunged 100ft. over an embankment on…

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Near Smash Near Orange Three Men Injured One Critically Orange

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 2

Three men were injured, one critically, when a fast stock train crashed into the rear of a stationary stock train at East Fork Junction, near…

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Accident Problem in N.S.W. Government Concerned More Traffic Police May Be Appointed Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 1

When the State Cabinet meet next week it will deal with a comprehensive report on the traffic situation throughout 1938 with particular reference to…

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Han Fatally Injured Car Overturns on Corryong Road Early Morning Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 4

When a motor car overturned on the Corryong-Cudgewa road in the early hours of yesterday morning, Wesley Kransgill, about 40, single, of…

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Woman Drowned When Car Plunged Into Weir MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 2

Trapped in a car at the bottom of Glenmaggie wear, yesterday, Mrs. Matilda Power, an elderly woman, was drowned. It appears she was…

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Fatal Motor Accident Late Henty Resident Killed

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 1

Blind for more than thirty years, Mrs. Mary Jane Allardice, 60 years, was fatally injured on Monday last when a motor car in which she was…

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Pea Rifle Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 5

A boy named Jack Rippingalo, aged 14, of Melbourne, who was staying in Corowa with his grandmother, Mrs. M. Kennedy, of Queen street. went…

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Accident on Redlands Road

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 2

On Tuesday evening last a car overturned on the Redlands road about tour miles from Corowa and was destroyed by fire, and the driver…

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Too Many Accidents Involving Taxi-Cabs, Minister Wants a Halt Called Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 4

The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner), with the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale), to-day called into conference representatives…

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Shocking Accident 2 Men Killed at Leeton

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 3

A shocking accident occurred about 11.30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, about half way between Yenda and Leeton, when a utility truck and motor car coli[?]ded…

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Simple Accident. Ivanhoe Resident Injured

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 4

A simple accident resulted in Mr. W. Lear of Ivanhoe spending his Chrismas in the Hay Hospital. He was entering a shop at Ivanhoe when he…

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Level Crossing Smash Man Killed; Son Injured Two Greyhounds Die, Too Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 4

In a collision between a mail train and the motor truck in which they were riding, a man was killed and his 18-year-old son injured, at a level…

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Man Killed; Car Inflames Three Critically Injured Boy’s Heroism Saves Party From Terrible Death GEELONG

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 8

Six persons were injured, one fatally, and three critically, when a car, after leaving the Anglesea road, near Bell Brae, about four…

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Poison Accidentally Mixed with Food Kills Two Men Darwin

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 1

An unfortunate accident which occurred three weeks ago has resulted in the death of Paddy Bennett, one of the Northern Territory’s oldest…

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A Motorists Error Left Ignition Key in Car Fatal Accident Follows; to be SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 6

Thomas McGill, salesman, employed by the Commonwealth Research Service,. Pitt street Sydney, was to-day committed for trial by…

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Little Boy Drowned Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 1

Ray Osland, aged 6, of Edward st., Glebe, Newcastle, was drowned in a Iagoon at Wattamulla, National Park, to-day. It is believed he slipped down…

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Wrestlers Injured in Routs Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 5

Tom Lurich beat Henry Ding in a wrestling bout at Leichhardt Stadium last night. In another match Billy [?] accounted for Lou Szabo. In…

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Car Accident Near Tarcutta

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 2

Remarkable escapes from more serious injury were experienced by three people, when a [?] into the Deltroit Creek, who miles on the…

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Little Corowa Girl Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 January 1939 · page 2

Beverley, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Gray, Corowa, after being brought horrie from the river by car last evening was running across the…

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