Nine Drowned Steamer Blown Up London
Nine men, including the skipper, were drowned when the steamer Wood-town was blown up by an explosion and sank within a minute, leaving only…
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Accidents, 1939
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Local & General News Bridge Builder Injured
Mr. Faulkner, of Port Kembia, a bridge builder employed by the N.S.W. Railways, was injured when a girder fell on his foot at Eulomogo yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seriously Injured Woman Falls 40 Feet Sydney
Mrs. Lilah Burns, aged 64, was fount! this morning lying unconscious on the footpath at a block of flats in Woollahra. She had crashed 40 feet…
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On Thursday last T. McGill, R Knight vand W. Wharton were riding their cycles down Coonamble Street, when the former, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident at Dredge
Mr. A. Richardson, of Percy Street, an employee on the Wellington dredge, met with a painful accident early yesterday morning. He…
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An accident, which could quite easily have had fatal results, occurred hi Dalgarno Street last Thursday morning. A dray, with…
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During last week-end and early this week a number of motor car accidents occurred in town. On Sunday night a young man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Homes Bereaved By Car Accidents Toll of the Road
Three homes in three separate (owns of this State were bereaved through accidents that were almost identical and occurred on the same…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many Cyclists Killed in Accidents Road Problem Sydney
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) in a statement to-day said that pedal cyclists who were killed in road accidents during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Car Accident Woman Killed When Car Overturns Ex-Coonamble Publican Seriously Injured Piece of Wire Cause of Blow-out Six Miles From Gilgandra
When about six miles from Gilgandra on Monday afternoon last, traversing the Coon amble Road en route from Coonamble to Sydney, a Chrysler sedan car, owned and driven by Miss Irene Veronica Smich (34), of 13 Casino…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cumnock Two Accidents No Serious Injuries Car and Sulky Involved
What could have been a serious accident happened near the Shire Hall on Tuesday last, when a lad riding a bicycle swerved and ran…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plane Fatality. Sydney
Pilot Officer R.J. Ohlmeyer of the R.A.F. Station Richmond, was killed yesterday when his plane crashed in heavily timbered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Accident. Sydney
Auckland. — When a mixed train crashed into a washout on the Christchurch Greymouth railway line, the heavy engine broke away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Head on Collision Man's Death Melbourne
Theodore Harris, aged 34 years, a motor mechanic, was driving a roadster near Benalla, when it skidded and overturned, bursting into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crash at Rygate Park Rider Injured
During a practice race on the cycle track at Rygate Park, Wellington, on Thursday evening, Peter White, who was leading the field nearing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Husband and Wife Collision with Tram Adelaide
Jack Caesar Boulby, aged 46 years, and his wife, Elsie, were killed instantly when a motor car in which they were travelling, was struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo Resident Seriously Injured Probable Fracture of Spine
J. Murphy, of 54 Erskine Street, North Dublin, was admitted to hospital on Sunday suffering with a probable fracture and dislocation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Drowned in Dam at Trangie Jumped From Boat Into Deep Water
Michael Spagos (13), son of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Spagos, of Trangic, was drowned in a dam about three-quarters of a mile from the town…
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When a collision occurred between a motor lorry and bicycle at the corner of Macquarie and Bultge Streets on Tuesday, Mrs. E…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident To Wheat Carrier
Mr. W. H. Chapman, of Tamworth, who until the week-end had been engaged carting wheat to the Gilgandra sil[?] met with a serious…
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