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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Condition of Injured Man

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

It was reported from the Hospital last night last the condition of the man who was found last Wednesday with his threat [?]t was satisfactory and he was…

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Injured at Fun Park

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

When a crowded merry-go-round collapsed on one side at the Fun Park on New Year's Eve a smalt boy was thrown out of a boat and was slightly…

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City Free From Accidents

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 5

Measured by absence of accidents this Christmas and New Year holiday period has so far been the happiest Broken Hill has enjoyed…

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Three Drowned When Boat Capsizes

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 5

Auckland.—Three men, including a father and his son, were drowned when a small sailing boat in which they set out fishing in…

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Injured Pruning Big Tree

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 3

Sydney. — A man who had been struck by a falling branch hung, badly injured, near the top of a…

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Miner Injured At Winch

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 5

Sydney.—A mine wheeler was much injured when he was struck by a revolving winch handle while working in the Kent colliery in…

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Boy Injured In Explosion

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 3

Wagga.—A nine-year-old boy was severely burned on the face and eye. when he put a match to some gunpowder in a bottle…

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Condition Of Injured Man

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 1

The man who was found last Wednesday with his throat cup was reported from the Hospital last night to be progressing satisfactorily…

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Injured Back

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 8

Suffering from an injured back received on Sunday, a young man. Jerry Sheehan was brought in from Umberumberka in the…

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Motor Cyclist In Collision

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 8

An 18-year-old motor cyclist was slightly injured in a collision witn a car early this morning. He is Join Tucker of 258 Oxide Street…

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Man Injured at Umberumberka

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 4

A young man. Jerry Sheehan, was was brought in from Umberumberka in the civil ambulance yesterday suffering from an injured back. He was admitted to…

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Woman Killed, Child Injured by Bus

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

Adelaide. January 4.—Mrs. Margaret Gallant (32) married, or High Street. Kensington, was killed, and her son. about four, was injured when they were…

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Three Drowned?

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 8

Melbourne.—Three men are believed to have been drowned off Point Cook when their boat was swamped by rough seas yesterday…

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Three Men Believed Drowned

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

Melbourne. January 5.—Three young men are believed to have drowned while on a fishing trip in a bay near Werrlbee today. Their names are not yet known…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 4

John Tucker [?] suttered a [?] head when his motor cycle collided with a car at the corner of Williams and Gossan Streets shortly after mid-night…

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Vulture Killed In Plane Collision

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

Singapore (A.A.P.-Reuter) January 5.—A Quantas Consteliation plane and a culture collided when the plane was [?]anding at Calcuttta yesterday…

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Man Injured At Umberumberka

Western Grazier · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

A young man, Jury Sheehan, was brought in to Broken Hill from Umberumberka in the civil ambulance on Tuesday suffering from and injured back…

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Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

Last year was a comparatively good one from the point of view of mine accidents. That is to say, compared with other, or average, years we did not…

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Ambulance in Slight Collision

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 1

The citizens ambulance when travelling south in Williams Street about 4.30 p.m. yesterday came into collision with a car travelling cost in Bromide…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 1

W. L. Francis, a carpenter employed by Haunstrops, received treatment at the Hospital yesterday for a lacerated right thumb. He was later taken home…

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