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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Tennessee Tornado 36 Dead; 200 Injured

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 1

NASHVILLE (Tennessee), Wednesday.—A mad march tornado razed the Tennessee and Kentucky borders from the Mississippi to the Cumberlands on…

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Motor Accident At JUGIONG Car Gets Out of Control Occupants Lucky Escape JUGIONG

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 1

Coming down the Jugiong Hill about 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, a new sedan car skidded on the loose surface, and turned over on its side,…

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Bullet in Thigh Detective the Victim Unusual Accident Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 4

Whi[?] searching promises in Camperdown for thieves his morning Detective Healey allowed he revolver to drop from his hand and it discharged…

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Level Crossing Accident Train Crashes Into Car Two Women Killed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 2

A shocking level crossing accident, in which two persons were killed and two injured, occurred to-night near Richmond when a goods train crashed…

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Motor Cars Collide Man Seriously Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 2

When two motor cars met in a terrific head-on collision in Alison Road, Randwick, this evening three persons were injured. Edward Jamieson, aged…

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Boat Capsized One Man Drowned Two Others Gallantly Rescued SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 1

One man was drowned and two others narrowly escaped a similar fate when heavy seas swamped a fishing boat at Coalcliffe, on the South…

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Drowned in Dam Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 1
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Playing round a dam at Ballingal, Gladys May Kennedy, aged 8 years, fell in and was drowned in four and a half feet of water…

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Car on Fire Mr. Lindbeck Injured

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

On Wednesday night, Mr. E. Lindbeck, of Eurongilly, had his car badly damaged by fire, and he himself did not es[?]sape. without personal injury…

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Week-end Accidents Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 1

The five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Wagga, received a fractured arm through a fall from a fence in the backyard of her home…

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Two Killed Flying Accident Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 4

An extraordinary flying accident occurred at Ambala (Punjab) yesterday, in which two persons were killed and two were injured…

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Week End Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 2

The five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, of Thorne-street Wagga, received a fractured arm through a fall from a fence in the back…

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Drowning Accident Barbara Osborne Drowned in Canal Tragic Ending to Fifth Birthday

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

Residents were chocked on learning shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday (Monday) of the sad news that little Barbara Osborne, the…

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The Weather Drowned on Her Birthday

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

Barbara, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Osborne, of Narandera, was drowned in the canal at the bottom of East Street,…

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Speedway Accident Car Crashes Through Fence Five Persons Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

Five were injured, one seriously when a ear skidded into a crowd of spectators during the running of the Australian Grand Prix today. The…

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Car Accidents Cars Collide in Wynyard Street, Tumut

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

On Saturday evening, about 6 p.m., a new Austin car driven by William Olsson, of Rose Bay, was turning to park in front of Barbour's Garage…

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Plane Overturns Accident at Aerodrome Coff's Harbor

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 1

Ronald Adair the pilot, and five passengers had a narrow escape from injury when a Moth aeroplane capszied as the result of wheel sinking in…

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Tragic Accident Little Girl Killed Father's Terrible Ordeal Grafton

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 1

Eileen Fleming, aged 5 years, only child of Mr. Rupert Fleming, timber carrier, of Coutts Crossing, Vas killed on Saturday in tragic circumstances…

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Boxing Troupe in Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

Travelling on the Gunning-Crookwell road, a lorry conveying Shaman's boxing troupe, overturned near the junction with the Gurrundah road…

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Over the Spillway Accident at Yanko Weir

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

Miss Brown, an employee at the Leeton cannery, ventured too close to the spillway at Yanko Weir on Sunday and was carried over by the…

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