Men Injured
First-class Constable James Begley was admitted to Ward 1 on Saturday night with a fractured right leg. His condition is reported to be…
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Accidents, 1939
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Girl Drowned in Balhannah Dam Adelaide
June Matthews, 12 of Gladstoneroad, Mile End, was drowned in a dam at Balhannah yesterday morning. With a school friend, Margaret…
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It is considered certain that the four young people who were drowned off the rock-bound headlands of Stradbroke Island on…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—During a swimming carnival at the Mittagong Baths Kathleen Stanton (23) of Bowral, received severe injuries when…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Keith Hargreave (11), was killed instantly by a violent explosion of chemicals with which his brother Leonard, a…
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ORANGE.—Three men were injuied, 2 critically, when a fast stock train crashed into a stationary stoek tiain at East Fork…
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ORANGE, Thursday.—Three men were injured, two critically, when a fast stock train crashed into the rear of a stationary stock train at East…
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ONE man was killed and five others were injured last night as the result of a truck crash down a mountain side…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—William Thomas Denman (65), farmer, of Harrisville, near Ipswich, was drowned in a wading pool at Wynnum…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.âTrapped in a car at the bottom of Glenmaggie Weir yesterday, Mrs. Matilda Power, an elderly woman, was drowned. It…
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BRISBANE, Friday. — Although partly incapacitated by injuries to his feet, Mr. David Kerr made a double rescue at Tagun, a south coast…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—The nurse who fell from the 7th floor of the Nurses' (Home at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital has been identified…
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SIX persons were injured, one fatally and three critically, when a motor car, after leaving the Angelsea-road, near Geelong, about 4 p.m. yesterday,…
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Anastas Dines, miner, of 56 Crystalstreet, received lacerations to the left wrist while working at the North mine to-day he was taken in the…
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FOUR people, a mother, her two sons and a neighbor, were badly burnt by petrol at Wahroonga. Two of them were…
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WAGGA, Tuesday.—The occupants of a motor car which fell 25ft. into the dry bed of the Deltroit Creek, a few miles from Wagga, were…
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T. R. Cole, miner, of 107 Boughtman-street, received injuries to the shoulders and foot while at work at the Zinc Corporation mine yesterday…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— When a Royal Victorian Aero Club Tiger Moth aeroplane crashed in a paddock about eight miles from Mornington…
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STRUCK by a train at Granville yesterday, Francis James Meegan, 36, garage proprietor, of Robert-street, Sandwell, had…
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A MOTOR cyclist and pillion rider were injured on the Stephens Creek road last night when the motor cycle on which they were riding…
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