Mine Workers Injured
Richard Woods, miner, of 487 Argent Street, was admitted to the Hospital this afternoon. suffering from neck injuries and concussion. He was…
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Accidents, 1942
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Faulty Ventilation Increases Accidents
SYDNEY, Friday.—Commenting on a statement by the Minister for Labor and Industry yesterday on the growing number of accidents in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Of Shunter Owens Accidental Run Over By Train On North Lease; Story At Inquest
A FINDING of accidental death was returned today at the inquest into the death of George Percival Owens, foreman shunter. Owens died as the result of injuries sustained when…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Travelling at 60 miles an hour, the Melbourne express collided with a truck containing several men at Minto level…
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A horse wus severely injured in a collision at the corner of Jabez Street and Silicia Lane today, but the driver, Ronald Albert Collins (15), of 733…
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The City Ambulance took W. M. Evans, whose light foot was injured when a stone rolled down a rill at the Zinc Corporation last night, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Revolver Fired Near Night Club Accident Says Officer Adelaide
THE firing of a revolver outside a city night club led to the appearance in the Adelaide Police Court of a sub-lieutenant of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident on Broken Hill Road Injury and Damage
Last Thursday a truck owned by Mr. J. Searce Wilcannia overturned on the Broken Hill Road on the [?] leading down to Mount Gipps Hotel, coming in…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—No persons were injured, but some damage resulted and three lines of traffic were blocked, when two coal…
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Roderick McQuillan, miner at the Zinc, was treated at the Hospital today for lacerations to the back and head. Keith Powell, apprentice fitter at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fork in Arm; Girl Injured
ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Hearing screams, Mrs. Emily Robins, of Phillip Street, City, looked into her neighbor's back yard in time to see a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Major R. Churchill Injured
CAIRO, May 31.—Major Randolph Churchill is in hospital suffering from bruises received in a car accident on the Alexandria-Cairo road. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Submarines Shell Sydney And Newcastle Extensive Damage In Three Large Suburbs; Only One Man Injured
SYDNEY.—SYDNEY AND NEWCASTLE WERE SHELLED BY ENEMY SUBMARINES EARLY THIS MORNING. A PORT SOUTH OF SYDNEY IS ALSO BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SHELLED. TWELVE SHELLS…
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PORT AUGUSTA.—The body of James Treacy, boatswain, 48, married, of Gordon Street, Albert Park, was found between the wharf and a vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Milkman Injured in Fall to Ledge
SYDNEY.—When a milkman was mounting a wooden staircase at the week-end, four of the steps gave way, and he fell to a rocky ledge above a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Serious Accident Narrowly Averted Car Overturns on Wilcannia Road
Four Broken Hill business own. Messrs R. E. A. Kitchen. H. Middleton. Bert Walker and E. Jones and a visitor from South Australia Mt. W. Host, were…
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MELBOURNE. — Detectives who are investigating the death of an American soldier, Pte. S. W. Willingham, whose body was found in a…
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COWRA.—Thrilled with the novelty of seeing water in what had for months been a dry creek-bed. Josephine Anderson (10)[?] of Koorawatha,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lang Injured on Way to Ebenezer
SYDNEY.—Mr. J. T. Lang, M.L.A., of Adderley Street. Auburn[?] was slightly injured when his car and a bus collided in Windsor Road. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If Spectator Had Heeded Call of Shunter—collision of Trucks May Have Been Averted
IF a spectator had heeded the call of a shunter and turned the points, yesterday's collision between a rake of timber trucks and a stationary empty rake might have been averted…
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