Mine Accidents
T. S. Nutt was taken from the South Mine to his home at 24s Chapple Stret yesterday when taken ill. A. P. Cain was taken ill at the Zinc…
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Accidents, 1947
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Boy Electrocuted, 2 Others Injured
SYDNEY—A child was clertrocuted and two others suffered electrical burns while playing near a fence in-Oatley today. The…
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SYDNEY—Two women and several boys were hurled through the glass doors of Selfridge's during an early morning bargain rush which developed into a "free for all." Both women received hospital…
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Capetown, January 16.—Six people were drowned when nice inches of rain fell in the centre of P[?]eterma[?]zburg between 4.40 p.m. yesterday and dawn…
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F. H. Jones was X-Rayed at the Hospital after treatment by a doctor for a sprained left side of chest, sustained at the South mine yesterday. He was…
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Last night at about 10.43 o'clock a collision between a car and a bus occurred at the corner of Argent and Iodide Streets. The car a Rolls Rovee was owned…
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Three persons suffered minor injuries and three others escaped with a shaking when a motor calcame into collision with a bus at…
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While endeavoring to toko a catch on No. 2 wicket this afternoon G. Wood (St..Peter's) misjudged the night of thc ball, was…
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SYDNEY the crack Chapetone, was badly injured in a fall at Randwick this morning Jockey A. Stanton had a heavy…
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W. S. Rogers was taken home to 142 Ryan Lane from the North Mine yesterday. He was suffering from a bruised left instep and toes…
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When he stepped, from the footpath in front of the Imperial Hotel, Oxide Street, about 8.40 p.m. on Saturday, Harold John…
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Shanghai, January 19.—Between 400 and 500 persons are reported to have been drowned when the Chinese ship Chikiang sank early yesterday after…
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SHANGHAI, January 20—At least 400 Chinese arc believed to have been drowned when a small Yangtze River steamer collided…
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MELBOURNE— Peter Smith, seven-year-old son of the Rev. Percy Smith, of the Methodist Church, Warragul, was drowned…
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Yesterday A. K. McDougall was taken to the Hospital from the Zinc Corporation for a strained back. Then he was taken home to 664 Lane Street…
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SYDNEY— Police have been advised of a drowning tragedy in the Clarence River at South Grafton last night. They were…
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SYDNEY— Two brothers, David William Macgrath, 26, married, and Hugh Gurr Macgrath, 20, were drowned in a dam…
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WHEN he was run over by a partly loaded garbage cart at the corner of Chapple and Buck Streets about 11.45 a.m…
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Sydney, January 23—A youth was killed and another injured when they were struck by a tram while boarding the wrong side of another tram at…
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Raymond Blacker, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Blacker. Senior, fell from a tree and suffered a compound fracture of his right forearm. He was taken to…
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