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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Boy Injured By Lorry

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 5

An eight-year-old boy suffered a fractured thigh when he was knocked down by a motor lorry near the…

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Collision in Oxide Street

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 4

Two cars were slightly damaged, but no one was injured, in a collision at the intersection of Oxide and…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1

Zinc Corporation: J. K. McAskill, treated by a doctor and taken home at 273 Duff Street; lacerated…

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Jet Fatality

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 1

Malta, Tuesday: L.A.C. Maxwell James Hennessy (25), of Chippendale,. N.S.W., was killed instantly…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 1

A. K. Fsichl (South) suffered a contused right thin and was taken home to 224 Wills Street…

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Boy Drowned

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 11

Melbourne: A Seymour policeman, having a day off in Melbourne yesterday was told on leaving a theatre…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 2

A Pascoe (Zinc) suffered an injured left knee for which he was treated of the Hospital before going home…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 12

E. Martin, working with Farrant's at the North Mine, yesterday was taken home to 558 Williams Street after he…

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28 Marines Perish in Collision

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

Seoul, Thursday: Twenty-eight United States Marines were drowned in the second…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

Zinc Corp.: E. Clifford, taken home to 2 Morish Street: Injury to finger. Kintore section of South…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

Zinc: J. Jones treated by a doctor at the Hospital for a foreign body in the left eye…

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Drowned in River

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 11

Hobart: The body of Mrs. Marie Turner, about 40, was recovered from the Huon River…

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Two Drowned In Sydney

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 1

Sydney, January 24.—Two people were drowned in the metropolitan area today. Bruce McCain (8), of…

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Boy Drowned at Molong

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 3

Molong: Waiter Hutchison (8), the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Hutchison, of Edward. Street. Molong, w…

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Two Fishermen Thought Drowned

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 1

Melbourne: Police and local fishermen said today there was no hope of finding, alive the two men who disappeared from a motor boat in Western Port Bay near San Remo…

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2 Injured When Car Hits Fence

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 11

Two persons were injured when a car collided with a fence in Nicholls Street yesterday…

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Arm Broken In Accident

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 3

A boy had his arm fractured, and a young man suffered facial injuries, in an unusual accident…

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Still Cannot Believe It Man Accidentally Killed Wife

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 3

Sydney, Jan. 22.—A Sydney man who accidently killed his wife with a rifle still doesn't believe there was a…

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Man Shot Wife Accidentally

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 2

Sydney: The city coroner (Mr. Forrest) criticised a widower for having used a rifle carelessly…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 3

J. H. Abbott strained his back at the North Mine and was; taken home to 669 Blende Street…

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