Seriously Injured In Explosion
GLEN DAVIS, Thurs. — Two men were seriously injured in an explosion which occurred in a shale oil mine to-day…
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Accidents, 1947
326 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 17
Collision In Fog--One Dead, IO Hurt
SYDNEY, Friday.--One man was killed and 10 men injured when two lorries collided in a fog on the Western, road, at Kingswood, near Penrith, this morning .The victims Were on the lorry top, on their way to work at St. Mary's…
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A motor car driven by Alexander James Smith, and a bicycle ridden by John McPhillips, both of South Grafton, came into…
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TENTERFIELD, Mon.—As a result of a head-on collision between utility trucks yesterday afternoon on a dusty stretch of…
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When a scaffolding broke and he fell, Ian Robert Piper, carpenter, of 133 Oliver street. Grafton, received a fractured left leg…
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BRISBANE, Wed. -- Jockey R. Ralston was seriously injured yesterday, when riding a horse at Doomben. In hospital, his kidney…
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A& Mr. A. D. Cridlands, of Pyrmont, Sydney, was driving his car northward yesterday morning he got into a heap of loose gravel just raked up…
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SYDNEY, Thus.--During the [?]rst five month's of 1947 [?] sons were killed and 3658 injured in 5323 road accident in New…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--A motor cyclist who had been flung on the road early to-day was run over and killed by an oncoming car while…
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Lyle Frederick McLaehlan (20), on of Mr. C. S. McLaehlan, of Brushgrove, received lacerations his hands when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision on Glen Innes Road
A collision between a private car and the Glen Innes mail service car took place about 29 mile from South Grafton, on the…
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Mr. Roy Samuel Brown (34), married, forestry foreman, of Edward street, South Grafton, severely cut his right foot with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision at Sea
NOVA SCOTIA (Halifax), Thurs. (A;A.P.).--Five navy man are reported to have been kilted and over 12 injured, with…
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Mary Gwenneth Small (14), of Victoria, street, Grafton, broke her coliarbone while playing at the Convent School yesterday…
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PERTH, Sunday.--A Roman Catholic nun and a man who plunged to her rescue, were drowned near Trigg Island, a…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Three people were killed in train accidents in the metropolitan area during the week-end…
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Cecil Russell's two-year-old filly, Polyshot, received injuries to her chest at the racecourse yesterday morning, when she crashed…
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BRISBANE, Tues.—Prime Minister Chifley's Dakota and a Tiger Moth plane nearly collided when landing at Archerfield aerodrome…
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Gilbert Fritz (47), married, of Billy's Creek received probable fractured ribs and contusions when he was injured by a falling…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—An inquiry will be held into the serious crashes during exercises by Royal Navy aircraft carriers Theseus and Glory. Aircraft collisions yesterday over Fort Phillip Bay resulted in the deaths of six men…
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