Boy Drowned
PORT AUGUSTA, Friday.—Patrick Bowden (11), son of Mr. and Mrs. Bowden, of Kingoonya, was drowned when swimming in a tank…
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Accidents, 1939
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Explosion At Factory; Four Injured
SYDNEY, Friday.âFour persons were admitted to the Newcastle Hospital early this morning, one in a critical condition, after an explosion…
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TWO men with their clothing on fire were pulled out of a manhole from a tunnel carrying electric cables under the road at the…
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SYDNEY, Friday. —Henry Ambrose (89), Mrs. Amelia Streeter, and Miss Maude Stockewell (31) were injured in a car smash on the…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—While bathing at Seacliff, Morris H. Besanko, about 27, of the Crown Law Office, who lived at Marine parade, Seacliff,…
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A man was drowned and two other non-swimmers who were with him had narrow escapes when the flat bottomed boat with which they were…
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ONLY a gallant knock by Hynes, who made 63 not out, enabled New South Wales to pass the 200 mark in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia on the Sydney Cricket Ground today. New South Wales were dismissed tor 246…
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William Taylor, employed at the North mine as a timberman, today xeceived injuries to the ribs while at work. He was conveyed in the…
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HOBART, Tuesday.—Three young men, visitors from Melbourne, narrowly escaped drowning in the River Tamar off Rosevear's jetty, when a…
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STRIKING evidence was recently officially disclosed in London that mechanical failure in automobiles has little to do with motor accidents,…
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Continuing with increased severity from Friday, unprecedented downpours in portions of the south-west have resulted so far in the drowning of a child, injuries to two women, and considerable damage to property…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Peter Forman (19), of Fairview-road, East Malvern, was drowned at Point Leo, near Flinders, early yesterday…
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MOUNT GAMBIER, Tuesday.—Jock McPherson (20), of Mount Gambier, is in Thyne Memorial Hospital, Millicent, with a broken leg, fractured…
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Colliding with terrific force in Missend-road Camperdown, this afternoon, two trams…
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HAROLD Victor Thomas (9), of Stanley street, Lower North Adelaide, was drowned in the Torrens near Walkerville yesterday afternoon…
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Thirty-three men are feared to have been lost from the Glasgow steamer Wilston, which was found wrecked today on rocks three miles…
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AT least 10,000 people are reported to have perished at Chillan alone in the disastrous earthquake. The entire town is wrecked, and dead and injured are piled in the streets…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) has revealed that during the past Christmas and New Year holidays 31 people were…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.— Two brothers, Jock O'Donnell (34) and Edward O'Donnell (29) were drowned when they were washed out of a small…
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Three riders were concerned in a crash during the running of the Senior Half-Mile Race of the Broken Hill Cycling Club on the…
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