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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Cyclist's Death Collision with Car. Evidence at Inquest Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 3

An inquest was begun to-day into the death of Gordon Mitchell, aged 2[?] years, who was killed on November 13 when a motor cycle collided with a…

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Collision in Atlantic Crew of 21 Drowned New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 1

The dense fog of the wintry North Atlantic, which has claimed so many lives from the fishing fleets of the Grand Banks, to-day became the…

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Junee Man Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 2

Charles Lean, a young man, brother-in-law of Mr. Lockery, licensee of the Broadway Hotel, Junee, became ill during the night in his room. He went…

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Woman Motorist Dives to Rescue Drowning Woman Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 4

A woman who jumped into the Yarra from the Anderson-street bridge last night, was resumed by a fashionably dressed woman, who…

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Prison Fight Convict Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 1

Two prisoners, Roy Bruhn and Albert Willis, while working in the mat-making yard at Pentridge gaol on Thursday, came to blows, and Bruhn,…

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Trams Collide Five Persons Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 3

Five persons suffered minor abrasions and shock when two trams collided head-on at Broadway, Glebe, this morning. There were many passengers…

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Miner Fatally Injured Lithgow

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 2

Samuel Crowle, aged 21 years, a miner, was fatally injured when he was crushed between a skip and a wall at Oakey Park colliery to-day…

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Horses' Injured While Ploughing Firebreak West Wyalong

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 2

While ploughing a firebreak around a big fire which broke out at Bina, six horses were caught in a stump and badly burned before they could…

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Fire Damp in Mine Five Miners Injured Eighteen Others Trapped Charleroi (Belgium)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 2

Owing to fire damp at a level of 3000 feet in a coal mine at Bois Longpre, five miners were seriously injured, two of them critically[?]…

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Accident at Works

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 2

Mr. W. Schlue went under a second operation on Sunday following his recent accident to his hand whilst working the planing machine…

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Milbrulong. Accident to Schoolboy

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 2

Gordon Richter, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Richter, Milbrulong, is reported to have fractured his leg just above the ankle whilst riding to…

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Mother and Children Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 2

Mrs. L. A. Bland and her two children were injured late yesterday afternoon when a horse they were driving stumbled and fell, throwing the three…

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Horses Injured While Ploughing Firebreak

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 2

A West Wyalong message: While ploughing a firebreak around a big fire which broke out at Bina, six horses were caught in a stump and…

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Accidental Shooting Boy in Hospital

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 3

After school on Wednesday four Cootamundra boys, all about 12 years old, went shooting, in the hills above the back Brawlin road,…

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Boy Accidentally Shot

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 2

A message received from Cootamundra yesterday stated that Sidney M'Donnell, aged 12 years, son of Mr. Roley M'Donnell, was accidentally…

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Tornado At Murrurundi Four Injured

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 4

In the space of four minutes on Thursday Afternoon a path of ruin was cut through Murrurundi by a storm of tornadic violence…

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Bendigo Fatality Poisoning Theory Dismissed Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 1

During the inquest on Michael O'Neill, 54, at Bendigo yesterday. Dr. G. R. Phillips said the deceased before he died remarked to him,…

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Girl Drowned in Barwon River Munginidi

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 1

A drowning mishap occurred in the Barwon River at Mungindi at 7 o'clock this morning, tho victim being Susanne Brady, aged 15 years,…

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Tremendous Hailstorm at Murrurundi Half the Houses in Town Unroofed Four Perrons Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 1

Hardly a house escaped without at least one window broken when a fierce hailstorm passed over Murrurundi late yesterday afternoon. The storm, which…

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Little Boy Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 2

Patrick Agnew, aged two years, was drowned in a dam on Mr. R. Enever's property, about 12 miles north from Coolamon, about 3 o'clock on Saturday…

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