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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Blasting Accident Man Badly Injured GRAFTON

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 6

Thomas Nipperess (34), married, while engaged in blasting operations in a quarry at Yamba, sustained shocking injuries to the…

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400 Chinese Drowned SHANGHAI

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 7

Making the third disaster on the Yangtse River within a few months, belated Hankow messages report that 400 Chinese were drowned when the…

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Channel Collision Two Missing LONDON

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 7

"The vessel must have sunk like a stone," radioed the British steamer Dartford, after colliding in a Channel fog with the Greek…

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Car Somersaults Three Men Injured SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 5

Three men were injured, two seriously, when a car somersaulted three times on the Great Western road at Prospect in the early hours…

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Four Hundred Drowned Vessel Overturns another disaster on Yangtze River

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 3

SHANGHAI, Tuesday:--Making the third river disaster on the Yangtze within a few' months, a belated Hangkow message…

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"ACCIDENTAL" Boy Struck By Lorry Coroner's Verdict

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 9

A finding of death from the effects of injuries, accidentally received through being knocked down by a motor lorry, was recorded by…

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Victim Was Drowned Pathologist's Evidence Glenore Grove Case Jury to Visit Scene To-day

Tweed Daily · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday:- Giving evidence in the Glenore Grove case to-day, Dr. Duhig, Government Pathologist, said…

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Shunting Accident GRAFTON

Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 6

While a goods train en route to Grafton was shunting at Coff's Harbour railway goods yards this morning William Windley, a fireman,…

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Badly Injured in Blasting Accident

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 4

While engaged m blasting operations in a quarry at Yamba, Thomas Nipperess (34), a married man, sustained shocking injuries to the…

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Unusual Accident

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 4

Ray Webster, 24, met with an unusual accident while bathing in the river at Casino on Monday afternoon. He was swimming at a point where…

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Drowning Boy. Zoo Trust Chairman to Rescue

Tweed Daily · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday:- After a struggle, Colonel Alfred Spain, chairman of the Taronga Park Trust, yesterday saved a boy from drowning at Shell Cove,…

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Entombed by Concrete Workman Dead Five Others Injured at Tamworth

Tweed Daily · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 3

TAMWORTH, Sunday. Overwhelmed by a fall of wet concrete after it had been set in position in the nurses' wing of the…

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Injured Cows' Udders Neglect Dangerous May Lead to Various Infections

Tweed Daily · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 5

Such injuries to the udder of the dairy cow as those caused by blows, hornings, kicks, treads, barbed wire cuts, etc., may not only result in an…

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Quarry Tragedy Evidence at Inquest "Accidental Death"

Northern Star · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 4

A verdict that death resulted from the effects of injuries accidentally received through being struck by a wooden beam or piece of stone during…

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Italian Train Smash. 16 Killed in Head-on Collision

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 3

ROME, Monday: Sixteen were killed and 11 injured at Leghorn when a railway motor-coach crashed into a train crowded with…

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Rail Smash Sixteen Killed Head-on Collision ROME

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 7

Sixteen were killed and 11 injured at Leghorn when a railway motor coach, travelling at 75 miles per hour, crashed into a…

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Collision in Moreton Bay Steamer Cobaki Inauspicious Start of New Service

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday. The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Cobaki made her first appearance in the port…

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Defective Brakes Accident on Bridge Motorist Fined £3 CASINO

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 2

A collision between a motor car and a pedestrian on Irving Bridge, Casino, on January 15 had a sequel in Casino…

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Boy Arrested Baths Accident SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 8

The police to-day arrested a boy at North Sydney and charged him in connection with the death of Frederick Simpson (16), North Sydney,…

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Nine Killed in Spanish Collision Madrid

Northern Star · Thursday 22 February 1934 · page 10

Nine were killed and 30 injured when the night express from Seville collided head-on with a special train, in which hundreds of football followers were…

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