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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

925 stories in Murray's papers · page 45 of 47

Accident in Quarry. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 2

Robert Campbell (45) was working on the cliff face at a quarry at Wollongong yesterday, when without warning the whole face collapsed…

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Strange Wave of Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 6

In six days last week six persons, were killed in four accident in which motor cycies were involved in addition a number…

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Militiamen's Deaths Coroner's Accident Finding One of Dead Men Came From Albury Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 December 1939 · page 10

Evidence that a utility truck in which four militiamen were killed when it got out of control on the Seymour road on November 25 had…

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Schoolteacher Father Saves Eight Year Old Daughter from Drowning

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 2

Joan Kelly, aged 8, was saved from drowning in the Murrumbidgee river yesterday by her father, who is a school teacher at Oura, about eight miles…

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30 Persons Injured When Trams Collide in Sydney Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 1

Thirty people were injured, some seriously, when one tram crashed into the back of another at the corner of Anzac Parade and Cleveland street…

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Man Injured Under Hot Shower

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 4

While Brian Klime, a member of a cricket team from Balmain was taking a shower at Bathurst he fell striking his head. Stunned by the blow, Klime…

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Nurse Drowned. a Wentworth Tragedy. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 2

Nurse Gwen Marshall (35), was drowned in the Darling River, near the District Hospital, at Wentworth, last night. She was swimming with…

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Thirty People Injured in Tram Crash Passengers Showered with Glass

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 4

Thirty persons Were injured some seriously when one tram crashed into the back of another at the corner of Anzac Parade and Cleveland street…

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Accident At Sawmill

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 1

Mr. Francis Thomas Duggan of Mathoura, was admitted to Deniliquin Hospital yesterday suffering from a severe wound over the left eye, which…

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Motor Cyclist Fined: Accident Sequel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 2

The sequel to a collision between a motor cycle and a motor car in Albury on Saturday evening October 28 resulted in George Edward Miles of…

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British Destroyer Sunk. Collision Causes Many Losses. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 2

The complement of the British destroyer Duchess, which was sunk in a collision with another British warship was 145. It is feared all…

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Boy Badly Injured When Howitzer Shell Cap Explodes Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 2

Ray Webster, aged 24 years, was badly injured to-day when a 5-inch howitzer shell cap exploded at his home. The shell cap, which contained…

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Injured at Woollen Mills Woman Awarded Compensation Court's Award at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 3

“We feel that it is not so much that employes should not clean the machines while in motion, but that , they should not be seen' doing it,” said Judge…

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Cabled War Items Fearful Factory Accident. BUCHAREST

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 2

The entire factory staff of 2,000 perished, and hundreds of others were killed when an explosion occurred in the chlorine gas tanks at…

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Accident Victim Leaves Hospital

The Pastoral Times · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 1

Mrs. Rita E. Bourchier, who, with her husband, Edward W. Bourchier, was injured in a motor accident on the Hay road recently, while travelling…

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Strange Wave of Accidents

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 16 December 1939 · page 6

In six days last week, six persons were killed in four accidents in which motor cyclists were involved. In addition, a number of persons were…

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Police Track in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 December 1939 · page 2

When a police utility patrol truck came into collision with another truck at Yarragundry, near Wagga, on Saturday day night, two men received injuries…

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Woman Found Drowned Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 December 1939 · page 1

The body of Mrs. Irene Vera Chadwick, aged 43, of Denmark St., Kew, was found yesterday evening, entangled in the branches of a submerged tree…

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Boy Drowned in Swimming Pool Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 December 1939 · page 6

Albert Harrison, aged 11, of Parramatta, was drowned in the Olympic swimming pool at Granville to-day. Harrison’s body was found in 16 feet…

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Boy Critically Injured in Fall Down Cliff Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 December 1939 · page 3

A Rose Bay resident had a dangerous climb down a cliff at Rose Bay north to-day to rescue a boy who had fallen 20 feet on to the rocks near the…

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