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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Eye Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

S. Graham, employed by Zinc Corporation, received treatment at a surgery today for a foreign body in the right eye. [?]e was…

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Little Girl Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 3

A 3 [?]-years-old girl was admitted to the Hospital yesterday morning for injuries suffered when she fell off the running board of a motor car. She is…

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Accident Cases

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 5

Vicki Johnson (3½), of 90 Ryun Street, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday morning will injuries suffered when she fell from…

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Two Drowned

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 5

Mildura.— A girl aged nine and a playmate she tried to save were drowned in the Murray at Charcoal Bend, half a mile upstream…

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Tug Sinks After Collision With Coal Freighter

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

Sydney, January 10.—A few minutes after being badly damaged in a collision with the 800 ton freighter Ahersen. the 64-year-old tug Emu sank at Globe…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

S. Graham, employed by Zinc corporation, received treatment at a surgery yesterday for a foreign body in the right eye. He was later taken to his home at…

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Another Motor Cyclist Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 1

Late yesterday afternoon. Ernest Row-bottom (29) was injured sufficiently to warrant his admission to Hospital, when he fell from his motor cycle. He was…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 4

1. Nicholls (Zinc) was treated at the Hospital yesterday for lacerations to the wrist. He was later taken home to 168 Mica street…

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Station Man In Collision

Western Grazier · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 1

At 7.30 o'clock Tuesday night a collision occurred at the corner of Calena and Williams Streets. Broken Hill between a utility driven by Richard Thomas…

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Injured At Work

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 2

South mine ambulance attended three cases today. J. Donovan, of Zinc Corporation, was treated for a foreign body in the left eye and…

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Interference at Valley Accidental

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 6

Melbourne, January 14.—stewards to-day concluded the inquiry into the cause interference to South Wind and Law Case at Moonee Valley lost Saturday…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 1

C. H. Webster (South) was treated at a surgery yesterday for a punctured wound in the left forearm. He then went home to 121 Ryan Street…

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Boy Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 2

Ross Phillips (6), of 23 Gypsum Street, suffered slight concussion and abrasions yesterday when a cycle he was riding on the South…

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Railway Porter Dies Found Terribly Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 3

Sydney, January 16.—A Strathfield railway porter was found with terrible injuries lying beside the line at Strathfield this morning. He was Joseph…

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3 Dead, 22 Injured in Freak Storm

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 1

Sydney.—Three persons died and 22 children were injured in a freak storm which caused several thousands pounds worth of damage as it swept over Sydney, Newcastle and parts of central western…

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South Girl Hurt in Car Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 7

Sydney.—Elsie Serich (11), of Patton Street, South Broken Hill, suffered slight concussion, bruised ribs, abrasions and shock when…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

James Everuss (South) was treated at a doctor's surgery yesterday for a lacerated neck. After treatement he was allowed to go home to 74…

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Fatal Collision

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 2

Sydney.—A grandfather, aged 42, was killed, and four members of his family were injured when a motor cycle and sidebox…

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10 Dead In Collision

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

New York, January 19.— Ten seamen were killed and 19 injured when the coastguard cutter Eastwind and…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

As the result of an accident yesterday, William Robertson of 88 Thomas Lane, was admitted to the Hospital suffering from a fractured leg. The…

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