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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Railway Fatality Cleaner's Death Crush Caught Between Engines

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1932 · page 1

Severely crushed between two engines at the locomotive yards last night, Lorrimer G. Clarrige (32), of Wingewarra Street, succumbed…

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Late Telegrams Saved From Drowning .. SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 12 August 1932 · page 2

Suffering from a broken arm, which was in splints, Miss Mavis Ismay, of Sandringham, saved her four-year-old cousin from drowning. On hearing…

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Shocking Fatality Crashed between Two Engines

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 12 August 1932 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred at the lace sheds at Dubbo on Wednesday night, when L[?]war Jabar Claridge, aged 31, of Wingewarra…

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Mining Accident Married Man Loses Life Broken Hill, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1932 · page 1

John Charles Millstead (39), married man, was killed at the North Mine last night. Nobody witnessed the accident, but it is believed that the wan was…

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Local and General Boy's Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1932 · page 2

While playing football at the Oval on Thursday afternoon,Mervyn Primmer (16), of Bishop Street, badly sprained his ankle. He was treated by…

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Lift Crashes From Fourth Floor Hospital Visitors Injured Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 August 1932 · page 1

Several visitors to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday were injured when a crowded lift crashed from the fourth floor to the ground floor…

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Accidents

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 August 1932 · page 2

ON Thursday last the Ambulance was called to Fashion's Mount to attend to Mrs. J. Quirk, of Redbank, and who was suffering from a fracture of…

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Ferry Fatality Python Scare Capsizes Craft Calcutta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1932 · page 1

Over ninety passengers arc feared to have been drowned when a ferry boat capsized in (lie Interior River, Bombay…

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Car Fatality Another Motorist Loses Life Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1932 · page 1

When a car overturned at Echuca. yesterday, Clarence McDermott (36) was fatally injured…

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Second Death In the Gessnock Collision Newcastle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1932 · page 1

Ernest James Vincent (52). miner, who was injured, near Cessnock last night, in the collision between a motor car and a motor cycle and sidecar…

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Motor Mishap Three Men Badly Injured Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1932 · page 1

When a lorry crushed into a telephone post on the Richmond Bond, Blacktown, the driver, William Dennis (45) received a fractured nose…

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Woman Drowned

The Western Herald · Friday 19 August 1932 · page 2

Despite her husband's heroic attempts to save her, the woman who was washed from the rocks at Whale Beach was drowned…

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Car Accidents Woman Killed Others Injured. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 August 1932 · page 1

Several fatal car accidents occurred in Sydney yesterday. Mrs. Ellen Dougherty, aged 55 years, succumbed to injuries which she received…

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Car and Tram One Brother Killed. Another Seriously Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 August 1932 · page 1

As a result of a head on collision between a tram and a motor cycle in Elliott Street, Balmain, on Sunday afternoon, Alfred Cecil Duffy (20)…

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Car Fatality

The Western Herald · Tuesday 23 August 1932 · page 2

Richard Gorst, 32, of Goulburn, suffered burns which caused his death, when his car overturned near Robertson and burst into flames. The…

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Hoodoo at Minore Fourth Quarry Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1932 · page 1

There appears to be a hoodoo at the Minore quarry where, although work has been in progress only a few weeks, four men have been injured…

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Painful Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 25 August 1932 · page 7

Mr. A. T. Byrnes, of Mendooran, mot with a painful accident during last week. While removing some drums of oil, one slipped and fell on…

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Fatality at Silos. Overcome by Poisonous Gas. Gallant Attempt to Save Mate

The Wellington Times · Monday 29 August 1932 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fatality took place at the Wellington silos at about noon on Saturday last, when a man named William Cattanack lost his life, while…

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Motor Fatality Demonstrator Dies at Wheel Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 1

Keith Trood (28), country salesman for Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited, lost his life last night, when a demonstration motor van, which he…

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More Accidents at Minore Quarry

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 1

Three more accidents have occurred at the Minore quarry, making a total of seven since the unemployed commenced work there a few weeks ago…

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