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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Car Accident

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 3

Early on Saturday morning, a car, driven by Mr. a. Lindley, of Gundagai, owing to a tyre blowing out and the steering gear jambing, left the…

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Crowds at Yanko Weir a Day of Mishaps Young Man Meets with Nasty Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 3

Sunday's extreme heat sent hundieds to Yanco Weir, from nil parts of tho district and the crowd was estimated at 1500. Most people were…

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Launch Missing Men Believed Drowned Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 5

The police received a report this afternoon that a launch had sunk in Tamarama Bay near Bondi, and that two men in it were missing A search…

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COLLISION Between Two Engines Southern Traffic Held Up

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 2

All truffle on the main southern line was held up on Monday night or early on Tuesday morning through, a collision between two engines at…

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Thirteen Drowned Two Bishops Perish Vancouver (B.c.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 1

In Dutch Harbor (Alaska), 13 persons, including Bishop Antonin, of Vancouver, and a bishop of the Russian Orthodex Church in Alaska, lost…

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Jockey Injured Thrown Against Fence Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 6

O. Callinan, a jockey, received a fracture, of the right thing and severe shock when his mount, Fulfil, took fright while galloping on the…

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Again Injured Viol D'amour Unlucky Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 6

Few more unfortunate horses than Viol d'Amour have been trained by E. J. O'Dwyer. Time after time the horse has met trouble just an he…

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Painter Fatally Injured Falls to Deck of Steamer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 1

Falling 40 feet to the deck of the steamer Karoola at the wharf at Darling Harbor to-day, George Miller, aged 50 years, a painter, received a…

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Accident at Bethungra

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon, at 5.30, an accident happened at Bethungra. Miss Worthington and a lady friend were driving from Cootamundra, and had…

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Fatal Accident STRUCK 27 Falling Tree Wagga Man's Death

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 5

A well known Wagga residents Mr. Thomas William Rudd, aged 47 years. was killed yesterday afternoon, while working for the firm of Kopsen and…

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Fisherman Drowned Heroic Rescue Attempt Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 2

Jack Baker, a middle-aged man living at Maroubra, was swept to his death by a huge wave while fishing from the rocks at Long Bay this…

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Fatal Accident at Laurel Hill Struck By Falling Tree Wagga Man's Death

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 3

A well-known Wagga resident, Mr. Thomas William Rudd, aged 47 years was killed. Tuesday afternoon, . while working for the. firm of Kopsen and…

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Drowned in Dam

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 2

The death of David Jenkins, 37, emphasises the danger of bathing alone in dams. Jenkins, with another young man, Danlol Anderson, was taking…

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Level Crossing Fatality Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 3

Irwin Thiel, aged 19 years, of Taldra, was killed when his sulky was struck by a train at a level crossing near Taldra to-day. The horse and a dog…

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Petrol Explosion Death of Injured Man Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 2

Charles Hunter, aged 20 years, who was seriously burned following a petrol explosion at a garage at East Sydney yesterday, died in hospital…

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Mayor of Chicago Wounded by Gangster Four Others Injured President-elect Has Narrow Escape Assailant Arrested Miami (Florida)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 1

In what is believed to have, been an attempt by a Chicago gangster to kill the Mayor of Chicago (Mr. Cormak), the life of the President-designate (Mr. Roose-velt) was seriously endangered here to-night. The…

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Batlow Two Accidents in the Bago Forest One Fatal

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 2

Two shocking accidents, One all Monday, the other, a fatal om, the following day in the Bags Forest in the vicinity of Laurel Hill…

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Tyre Bursts Motorist Injured

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 7

When the gauge of the air pressure pump he was using at a garag[?] at Young on Monday showed 60bs. Herbert Balley, 22 complained that…

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Farm Hand Drowned Swimming in a Dam

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 1

Another farm tragedy occurred on Sunday night, at Brucedale, when David Jenkins (37), a farm hand, was drowned in a dam on Mr. W…

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Engines Derailed Collision At Bethungra Southern Trains Delayed

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 7

A collision between a goods train and addetached engine at the southern end of the Bethungra railway station late on Monday night…

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