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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 1

P. S. Martin (South was taken some to 504 Blende Street [?] from illness. E. J. Boon (Haunstrup's) was taken to…

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Tragic Accident Child Shot Over Smoking

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 5

Melbourne. January 23.—The younger or two brothers was shot through the temple with a pea rifle following an argument over smoking at North…

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Woman Found Drowned

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 1

Sydney.—Police are investigating the death of a woman, whose body was found early today in the surf at Bronte Beach…

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Car and Jeep in Accident

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 4

Mrs. Ellen Beatrice May Crabb. of Schlapp Street. was driving her car west in Oxide Street at 6.45 p m. on Monday when a jeep owned by Thomas John…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 1

M. A. Cahill (North No. 2) suffered a contused right thumb yesterday. He was X-rayed at the Hospital and then taken home to 332 Wyman Street…

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Horrible Scenes Follow Explosion on Ship Three Dead and Many Injured; Terrible Burns Sustained Screaming Men Trapped By Steel Plates

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 1

Sydney, January 25. — Three naval ratings are dead and many others, including two civilian workers, are in hospital following a petrol explosion deep down in the bowels of the tank…

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Cars in Collision

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 3

Two cars were damaged when they collided at the Interaction of Oxide and Blende Streets about 6.10 o'clock last night…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 1

R. Price (C.P.S.) was treated at the Hospital yesterday for an injury to the right hand. D. D. Bissett (North) suffered crushed…

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Death From Injuries Railway Accident Victim

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 1

Mr. Frederick William Doherty (55) who was seriously injured in an accident at the Crystal Street railway station on Thursday morning…

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Two Vehicles In Collision

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 7

When two vehicles collided five miles from Broken Hill on the Mt. Gipps road at midnight on Saturday, John Clifford Blake, of 265…

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Ill Feeling in Tarakan Fatality

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 2

Sydney.—The naval authorities were bitterly criticised last night by the mother and two brothers of David Graydon (23), the eighth victim of the Tarakan disaster…

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Fell Seventy Feet Man Badly Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 4

Sydney, February 27.—A arrive [?] [?] [?]…

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Motor Accident on Mount Gipps Road

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

A car and a utility truck collided on the Mt. Gipps road about live miles from the city curly yesterday morning. Driver of the car was treated at the…

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Death Follows Tractor Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 6

Adelaide.—Graham Brown (29), tractor driver, of Provost Street, Lower North Adelaide, died Saturday from injuries received when a…

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Boy's Eyes Injured By Lime

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 3

A four-year-old boy suffered serious burns to the eyes when he fell on a heap of lime at his home on Thursday The lad. Peter Watkins, of 56 Nicholls…

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Man With Injured Throat In Satisfactory Condition

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 3

A man who was admitted to Hospital on Saturday night suffering from lacerated throat was reported last night to be in a satisfactory condition. He is…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 2

F. Porich (South) was taken home yesterday with a bruised left foot. D. Durant (South) was treated at the Hospital for a bruised thumb and…

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Killed in Collision

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 3

Sydney.—James George Lyon, 23, of Ellenborough, was killed when his car came into collision with the tray of a large lorry on the…

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Man's Head Injured

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 8

In an alleged brawl near the Hillside Hotel, Railway Town, last night, a man suffered a wound in the head thought to have been…

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Man Found Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 1

A 68-year-old man who was found lying on the footpath near the Junction Hotel in the early hours of this morning was…

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