Bus Passengers Injured
SYDNEY, Saturday.—Four people wore injured last night when a crowded double-decker bus skidded for about 70 yards in George Street,…
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Accidents, 1942
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Electric Train Crash; Six People Injured
SYDNEY, Monday.—When an electric train crashed into the rear of another in a tunnel at St. Janes Station today six peoole, including…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.—A military officer was killed and another injured when a military utility truck came into collision with a motor car…
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Colin McKinnon, a member of the A.I.F., who resides on the Imperial Lease, considers himself unlucky— and rightly, so. He spent 18 months…
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A BADLY wounded Japanese airman shot up and dived into a Tomahawk fighter grounded on an R.A.A.F. aerodrome m Burma, says Flight-Lieut. Monty Cotton, in a letter from a hospital in Calcutta…
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Lewis F[?] Acres, of 66 Thomas Street, an employee of the Zinc Corporation, was treated at the Hospital today for a probable fracture of the…
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STRUCK by a falling electric light pole, Ernest Dodd (50), railway employee, of Young, was fatally injured today at the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—On the eve of her third birthday[?] Alice Tucker was drowned in a water-filled air raid trench in the back yard of her…
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Eric Thustain, of 338 Thomas Lane, a weighman at the North mine, was treated at the Hospital today for an injured nose…
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PORT AUGUSTA, Friday.—Eight people were admitted to the Port Augusta Hospital as the result of a head-on collision between a light…
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One day recently Green Bros. met with a delay when carting sheep from a river station to Broken Hill, caused by an unusual though not unique…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—When a goods train and locomotive collided at Balmain last night three men were injured, while four trucks were badly…
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LONDON, April 13.—Some of the fiercest air fighting since the Battle for Britain occurred during the bombing of Hazebrouck (France) this…
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A FINDING of accidental death was given by the jury today at the inquest into the death of Ernest Dodd (50), railway employee, who was struck by a falling electric light pole at the transhipping yard on April 8…
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On Monday, Glen. the twelve-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. D. Plant, was scalded by hot tea The accident occurred at Yoe, the home of…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. — An identity card enabled the police to obtain a name and address of an unconscious man, who had been found…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Three men were injured and others had narrow escapes when alcohol fumes exploded with terrific force in the factory of…
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AN Advanced Allied Base.— With portion of the controls shot away, one engine out of action, and all but one of its American crew…
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SERIOUSLY injured at Tocumwal yesterday afternoon, Mr. Lindsay William Irving (45), single, a returned soldier, died at Mooroopna…
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Two Cyclists were admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon following street accidents. They were Thomas Williams (14) and Harry Alfred…
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