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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Accident in Shunting Yards

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 2

While manipulating a coupling in Junee yards on Monday Mr. Jack Roseworn was the victim of an accident…

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Fatal Accident at Young

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 4

William Gorman, aged 33, a son of Mr. and Mrs. .W. Gorman, of Grenfell, sustained fatal injuries when a Morris Minor car, driven by Mr. Reg…

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Two Children Drowned Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 2

Two children, Edith Betson, aged 10 years, and her sister Desma were drowned at Torumbarry Weir, near Echuca yesterday. The bodies were…

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Constable Fatally Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 2

Constable Sturgess, of Penrith, received fatal Injuries to-day when he was involved in an accident on the Nepean Bridge…

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Boat Wrecked Man Rescued Under Cliffs Companion Drowned Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 2

Trapped under the 250 feet high cliffs by seas for 25 hours, a naked man, believed to be Robert Nashford, aged 45 years, of Chatswood, was…

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Two Fatally Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1939 · page 2

George Dance, aged 42 years, or North-road, Kellor, died In the Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday from injuries received on Monday when he…

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Japanese Submarine Sunk in Manoeuvres Collision Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1939 · page 8

The Navy Office announces that the Japanese submarine No. 163 sank yesterday morning after collision with another submarine during manoeuvres…

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Car Smash In Sydney Wagga Lady Injured

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 February 1939 · page 3

The N. S. Wales Sheffield Shield cricketer, L. Hynes, whilst driving on the Pacific Highway Killara, on his way to play at the Sydney…

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Man Fatally Injured Crushed Between Trams Blood Transfusion Fails Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1939 · page 6

Crushed between two trams in George-street last night, William Riechers, aged 71 years, of Tallebung. near Condobolin, was fatally injured…

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Ringbarking Accident

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1939 · page 6

When the axe he was using to ring-bark a tree slipped, James Pollack, aged 15 years, of Humula, sustained a severe incised wound on the big…

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Child Drowned at Picnic SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 2

Irene Lake, aged nine years, of Glenfield, was drowned to a river near her home to-day. She was a member of a picnic party and evidently fell into…

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Lorries in Collision

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 3

The left-hand side of Mr. "Bill" Clayton's delivery lorry was ripped and the cabin smashed, when he came in collision with the rear of…

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[?] Drowned in Submarine Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 4

Six member of the crew of the Japanese submarine which sank after a collison a few days ago have been [?] but the remaining [?] are…

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Farmer Fatally Injured Struck Py Cricket Ball Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 7

When struck over the heart by a cricket ball at Brigalow yesterday, Hubert M'Mahon, aged 37 years, dairy former, of Helenslea, collapsed, and…

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Stable Accident Improvement Breaks Leg Later Destroyed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 8

Improvement slipped when being physicked at his stables on Saturday night and broke his near hind leg. He ws destroyed yesterday morning…

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Accidental Death Verdict in Griffith Tragedy

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 4

YESTERDAY the inquest into the death of Mr. Frank Bowen, who collided with a car driven by Dr. Dilger, of Yenda, on the…

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Farm Hand Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 4

George ward, a farm hand, of Ellimatta station, on the Big Springs-Pullitop road, was injured while riding a horse yesterday. It appears…

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Car Overturns Five Persons Injured Yarrawonga

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 2

A motor car, driven by Mr. J. Williams, of the Mayfair Cafe, Yarrawonga, overturned to-day near Lake Rowan, when the rear tyre blew out…

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Deniliquin Bankers Have Eventful Week-end Former Wagga Resident Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 6

Four bank officers from Deniliquin who were travelling by car to spend the week-end in the city, had the misfortune to be involved in an accident…

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Floods in America 30,000 HOMELESS; 9 Drowned Cincinnati (U.s.a.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 1

Thirty thousand people have been driven from their homes and nine have been drowned by floods la the low-lying parts of Kentucky, Ohio…

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