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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

349 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 18

Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1945 · page 2

Whilst nearing his home in Corowa after riding a motor cycle from his work at Mulwala on Saturday, Mr W. Birch, Corowa, met with an accident…

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Boy Cyclists Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1945 · page 2

Gordon Joynson, aged 12, of Edward street, Albury, received severe lacerations to the left leg when he fell from his cycle in Carrington street yesterday…

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Soldier Killed in Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1945 · page 2

Spr Christian Gothiff Falkenberg, aged 37, of Nuioopla. South Australia, was killed late on Friday night when the truck in which he was riding…

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Train Fatality Scottish Express

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Monday: After 28 hours' incessant work, a rescue crew has reached the buried coach of a wrecked Scottish Express, and it is feared…

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Four Drowned In 3-ft. Of Water Car Overturns On Bridge INVERELL

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 1

William Whitebread, 49. dentist, and three children, aged three, four, and five years, were drowned in three, feet of water when a car…

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Latest News 70 Refugees Drowned in Panic When Ship Catches Fire Port Said, Monday. AAP

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 3

Seventy persons including women and children, are missing, feared killed, from the Empire Patrol of 3340 tons, which caught…

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39 Dead In Train Derailment at Least 91 INJURED Vast Mass of Twisted Debris LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 October 1945 · page 1

Thirty-nine persons, including the driver and fireman, are dead, and at least 91 were injured as the result of an express train bound…

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Injured Iron Worker Moulten Metal Over Head

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 October 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Friday: Leslie Hampton (45) of Waratah, was seriously injured at Lysaght's sheet metal works at 1.30 a.m. to-day, when…

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Doctor’s Gas Death Was Accidental Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1945 · page 6

An accidental [?] was recorded today at the inquest into the death of Dr George Harold Guthridge aged 45 of St Kilda road…

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Allegedly Drowned Woman LUNEBERG

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1945 · page 2

A Czech girl, Elizabeth [?] an [?] at the Belson trial [?] accused Hilde [?] of drowning [?] men in a ditch…

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5 Killed in Factory Explosion 53 Others Injured LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1945 · page 1

Five women were killed and 53 other employes were injured when an explosion, described as “like a V2 going off,” at 9 a.m. today…

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Woman Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 2

Mrs Kathleen Diwson. aged 03. of Camperdown. NSW. died in Albury Hospital on Saturday, from injuries received when the car in which she was…

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Old Man Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 2

James Neare, aged 80, of Gundagal was knocked down by a truck in [?] street Wagga. at the week-end and [?] whilst, being taken to…

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Explosion Wrecks Building Workmen Badly Injured MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 5

An explosion wrecked the interior of the State Electricity Commission’s depot in Church St., Richmond, and seriously injured an employe. Peter…

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Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 3

Margaret, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. McLean, of John street, Corowa, met with an accident on Friday…

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NEARLY 6000 Japs Drowned Steamer Strikes Mine OSAKA

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 October 1945 · page 1

Carrying 6000 Japanese, the passenger ship Muroto Maru struck a mine and sank off Kobe on Sunday, reports Dom[?] Newsagency…

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Mother and Little Son Drowned MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1945 · page 4

A mother and her two year of[?] child were found drowned in the sa[?] near Brighton pier this evening by beach patrol. They were Mrs [?]…

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A Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1945 · page 2

Terence Hugh Wells, of Mitchell street, Wodonga. received slight abrasions to his elbows when he was knocked from his bicycle near the…

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Accident in Well

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1945 · page 2

Mr T. Knecbone. senior, while making alterations in a well on his property yesterday afternoon, at Chiltern, attempted to lower a bricked and…

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850 Japanese Believed Drowned TOKIO

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 October 1945 · page 2

Domet Newsagency has reported that approximately 850 Japanese are fe[?] to have [?] their lives when mine sank two steamers in Home waters at…

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