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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 198

Girl Riders Injured. Adelong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 8

Sylvia Eecleston, a visitor to Adelong, was injured when she was thrown heavily from a bolting horse, which narrowly missed four motor cars as it galloped madly along the…

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DROWNING. River Picnic Tragedy. Rescuer Nearly Dragged Under. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 7

Albern Beveridge, 26, manager of the Dubbo depot of the Shell Company of Australia, Ltd., was drowned in the Macquarie River nt Whylandra on Sunday afternoon, in spite of…

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Picnic Tragedy Girl Killed; 8 Injured ADELAIDE

The Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 7

Crashing through a fence on a dangerous corner at Nettle's Hill, about five miles from Victor Harbor, to-day, a motor truck turned…

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Case of Machinery Falls Down Barron Falls Gorge. Man Severely Injured. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 7

The employees at Barron Falls hydro electric works had a narrow escape to-day, when a case containing over seven tons of machinery crashed from the top of the 1100 feet haulage…

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Motoring the Year Ahead. Driving and Road Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 2

For motorists and motor traders the old year has closed on a happy note, and with mild crescendo of optimism. The now-car market was buoyant throughout 1934, and…

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W. Ross Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 2

Unseated when his mount. Fleet, Jumped sideways at barrier-rise and cannoned into Royal Bird and Umyris In the New Year's Gift at Randwick yesterday, W. Ross broke…

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Farmer Injured Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 10

Frederick Young, farmer, suffered a severe gash on a hand while endeavouring to put a ring on a boar's nose on his farm at Lowther. The hand was jammed between the animal's…

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Fettler Injured. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 10

During shunting operations at the scene of yesterday's derailment on the railway line between Casino and Grafton, a number of fettlers were in a brake van when it struck…

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Fatal Weeds Girl Entangled and Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 8

TOOWOOMBA, Tuesday.--Ethel Trevarthan, 16, was bathing in Lockyer Creek this afternoon when she became entangled in weeds and was…

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Head Bashed Woman Seriously Injured

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 1

WITH her head battered with what police allege was an ebony ruler, Mrs. Mary Fulton, 66, of Campbell Street. Waverley, was…

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Child's Eye Injured. Canowindra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 10

Margaret Lee, 6, was struck in the right eye by a slug fired from an air gun while she was playing in the yard at her home. The child was taken to Orange Hospital for…

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Man Injured. Alleged Attack with Tomahawk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 10

After a fierce fight in a house in Brumby-street, Surry Hills, yesterday afternoon, Andrew Gough, 46, a seaman, was treated at Sydney Hospital for injuries which, it was…

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Found Drowned Melbourne Business Man; Clad in Singlet

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Clad only in a singlet, the body of Mr. J. A. Greig, senior director of Grieg Bros. Pty., Ltd., Melbourne, and a former…

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Girl Drowned Third Death in Family Toowoomba

The Sun · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 3

While bathing in Lockyer Creek, a few miles from Toowoomba, yesterday afternoon, Ethel Trevarthan, 16, of Raff-street, Toowoomba, became…

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Several Injured in Baths Prompt Rescues By Other Bathers Manly Pool

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 5

PROMPT action by other bathers saved the lives of several persons while they were bathing in the Manly pool yesterday. Voluntary…

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Killed Before Dawn Man and Woman in Car Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Beginning with two fatal accidents before dawn, to-day was one of the busiest periods the ambulance has yet…

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Went for Doctor Motorist Left After Old Man's Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 5

KATOOMBA, Tuesday.--As midnight was striking last night an elderly man, Edward Dowdell, of Freelander Avenue, Katoomba, was…

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Motor Accidents. Crowded Truck Overturns. Child Killed. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 10

A motor truck with 10 occupants clashed through a fence and overturned at Nettles Hill, about five miles from Victor Harbour, to-day, and Rosemary Bennett, 4, of Myponga,…

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Boy Injured in Collision

The Propeller · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 4

William Bourke, 14, of High Street, Carlton, was seriously injured yesterday, when the motor cycle he was riding collided with a car at the…

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Collision at Hurstville

The Propeller · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 4

A collision occurred on Monday between a motor lorry and motor car at the intersection of Forest Road and Durham Street, Hurstville. Mr…

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