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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Car Overturns Driver Drowned Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 1

When a motor car left the roadway and capsized in a flooded drain on the Yandina Collum road yesterday, Philip Brown, aged 36 years, was pinned…

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Two Killed Eight Injured Motor Truck Accident On Dandenong Ranges MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 1

A man and his wife were killed instantly and eight other persons were injured when a motor truck got out of control and overturned on a steep…

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Chapter of Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 2

To those who ate superstitiously inclined, the date may have been in some mystic way responsible for a chapter of accidents which occurred in Wagga…

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MR. C. B. KELLOW Involved In Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 1

Mr. C. B. Kellow, owner or Hall Mark, was on his way to his property, Gundaline Station, on the Murrumbidgee River, having with him Dr. J…

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Drowned in the Bombala Bombala

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 6

In attempting to cross the Bombala River, which had been swollen by floods, Stanley Savage was crowned near the main bridge yesterday. The…

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Crushed Between Buffers Silo Engine Driver at Henty Injured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 5

A shocking accident occurred at Henty yesterday morning when William J. Prendergast, engine driver at the Henty silos, was crushed between…

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The Tumblong Motor Coach Fatalities All Injured Are Improving

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 3

The latest reports concerning the eight injured patients in the Gundagai Hospital, victims of the Melbourne Pioneer Tourist Services…

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Car Overturns Man Killed and Five Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 2

A man was killed and five others injured, two seriously, when a motor car overturned on the Great Western road, near Eastern Creek, eight miles…

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Man Killed and Five Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 2

A man was killed and five others injured, two seriously, when a motor car overturned on the Great Western road, near Eastern Creek, eight miles…

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Boys Drowned in Victoria and Queensland Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 2

Lawrence O'Connell, aged 13 years, of East Ringwood, slipped from a springboard on a disused quarry near his home to-day and was drowned in…

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Chapter of Accidents Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 4

Shortly after 8 a large crowd had gathered around a shooting gallery, where a man, alleged to have been under the influence of liquor, was…

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Accident to a Junee Lad

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 2

A very serious accident befel Mr. Stan White, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. White, of Junee. He was engaged in the occupation of delivering bread…

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Terrible Havoc Wrought by Earthquake in India by Earthquake in India a Thousand Deaths Shocks Throughout Country Hundreds of Injured Vast Area Resembles Shell Wrecked Battlefield CALCUTTA

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 1

More than 1000 persons are now believed to be dead as the result of yesterday's earthquake in India, and more, than 300 were injured. Another moderate shock was recorded here this…

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Fatal Motor Smash Was Pure Accident Snapping of Rear Axle Caused Disaster Coronial Inquiry Completed

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 1

That last week's frightful motor smash was a pure accident, caused by the snapping of the rear axle, was the finding of the local Coroner, Mr. C. G. D. Aliman, at the conclusion of the inquiry, which terminated yesterday morning…

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Eleven Men Drowned Amsterdam

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

Eleven men, being officers and crew of the steamer Oakford, which was stranded in a gale after the vessel sprang a leak off Texel Island…

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Man Drowned at Leeton Leeton

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 3

Roland Tilker, of Five Bough, was drowned in the main irrigation channel near Leeton while swimming. He leaves a widow and three children…

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Items of News Man Drowned at Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 2

A man named Roland Tilker, of Five [?]ough, was drowned in the main irrigation channel near Leeton while swimming. He leaves a widow and three…

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The Fatality at Tumblong Inquest at Gundagai GUNDAGAI

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

The inquiry concerning the death of Mrs. Keogh, Mrs. Allen, and Miss Croft, who were fatally injured near Tumblong, when a charabanc, plying…

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Snowy Tilker Drowned Strong Swimmer Swept Over Canal Regulator

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 7

The main canal has claimed another victim, this time a strong vigorcas swimmer, in the prime of life, Mr. Robert Reginald Tilker, aged 28…

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Factory Explosion Three Men Injured Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 3

Three men were badly injured following a terrific explosion in a city factory here to-day. One of the men had his clothes burned off. The…

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