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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Man And Woman Drowned Heroic Rescue Attempt

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 1

Melbourne, January 11.—Two members of a battling party—a young married woman who had been carried out by a strong undertow, and a young man who…

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Serious Condition Of Accident Victims Peanon Has Probable Fractnred Skull

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

In the accident which occurred at the corner of Chappie Lane and Oxide Street on Thursday night at 11.30 o'clock there were five persons involved, but only three…

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Locals In Motor Car Accident at Burra

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 4

ADELAIDE.— serious accident was narrowly averted early yesterday when a sedan car smashed three concrete posts on the Bonacdrd Bridge at…

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Accident Victims Still in Hospital

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 7

Most seriously injured in the motor cycle-push cycle collision in Oxide Street on Thursday night was Colin Pearson, rider of the motor cycle. He…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 6

Two men suffered injuries while working at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. Both were treated at the Hospital, then taken to their homes…

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Motorist Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

At 1 a.m. yesterday Mr. A. Austin, of 242 Wolfram Street, was taken in the Civil Ambulance to the Hospital. He was a passenger in a car that came…

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Seven Injured When Lorry Overturns

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

Sydney, January 13.—Seven people were injured when a car and a lorry collided at the corner of Archer and Ashley Streets Chatswood, today. Only one…

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Locals In Cat Accident

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

A car driven to Adelaide by Perry Evie Lewis, of 54 Oxide Street, Broken Hill, who had his wife, Linda Gertrude Lewie, as a passenger, smashed three concrete…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

Mine accident cases treated today were:— F. J. Ellis, an employee at the Zinc Corporation, for a knee injury. After…

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Six Injured In Explosion

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE. — Believed to have been thrown deliberately a hand grenade or bomb exploded on the verandah at the rear of a house in…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 1
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F. J. Ellis, an employee at the Zinc Corporation, was treated at the Hospital yesterday for a knee injury. After treatment he was taken to his home at 108…

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Accident Victims' Condition

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 1

Last night it was reported from the Hospital that the condition of the three motor cycle accident victims was very satisfactory…

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21 Injured In Tram Smash

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Twenty-one people were injured, four ertically, when two trams telescoped midway across the One ambulance racing to the scene…

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Twenty-four Injured Trams Collide On Harbor Bridge

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

Sydney, January [?].—Twenty-four people were injured, two seriously, when a Crow's Nest-bound train crashed into the rear of a Lane Cove tram on the…

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Grenade Thrown on Verandah Man Killed; Five People Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

Brisbane, January 15.—One man was killed and five other people injured when a bomb or hand grenade exploded after being thrown an to the back verandah of…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

W. H. Hancock bruised his left shoulder at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. After attention at the Hospital he was conveyed to 740 Lane Lane…

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Car Accident

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

In connection with the report of the accident at the corner of Sulphide and Argent Streets on Friday night at 11 o'clock (not Saturday morning at 1…

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Injured on Way to Join-husband

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 7

LONDON, January 16.—Mrs. Ellen K. Re[?], of Winchester (Hampshire), was a happy woman on Monday, when news came that she could sail…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 1

T. W. Aitken, of 262 Oxide Street, was attacked by severe cramp while working at the North Mine yesterday. He was taken to the Hospital by the ambulance…

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