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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

349 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 18

30 Bus Occupants Drowned CAIRO, Wednesday

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 October 1945 · page 1

Thirty persons were drowned when a bus in which they were travelling fell into a canal running alongside a road near Cairo. Only the driver…

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Boy Accidentally Shot by [?] SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 October 1945 · page 6

Colin Boyd, 14, schoolboy, was wounded when accidentally shot through the stomach by an army [?] at Manly today. The 13-year-old…

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Airman Killed in Collision Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 October 1945 · page 2

LAC John Francis Richardson, [?] 20, of Vautier St., Elwood, was kil[?] tonight when his motor cycle [?] with a car at the corner of Bal[?]…

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Injured by Broken Bottle

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 October 1945 · page 1

Gordon Clancy, of North Deniliquin, suffered a deep out on the back yesterday afternoon while swimming at the Edwardes street pool. A broken bottle is…

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Glider Accident SYDNEY

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 October 1945 · page 3

Victor Irvine Dawson, 30, of Enfield, whose gilder nosedived about 70 feet into a paddock at Lakemba on Saturday, died in hospital…

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News of the Soldiers L. Cpl. H. M. Wells Missing, Believed Drowned

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1945 · page 2

The Finley "Mail" states that the relatives of L. Cpl. H, M. ("Harry") Wells have received advice by telegram from the Minister for the…

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Painful Accident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 October 1945 · page 2

Mr. Rosendale, of Echuca, brother of Cr. Rosendale, met with a painful accident when his left hand came in contact with a circular saw which he was…

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First-aid Men Carry Injured Child

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 October 1945 · page 1

Max Cathcart (8) suffered a badly cut foot on Friday afternoon, when he stood on broken glass in a paddock near his parents home at the south end of…

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Two Children Drowned QUEENSCLIFF

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 November 1945 · page 2

Two children were drowned of Swan Bay. near Queenscliff today while they were playing on a [?] bank 150 yards from the shore. They…

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Youth and Girl Drowned Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 November 1945 · page 1

A youth and a girl were drowned in rivers near Sydney today when they fought against rescuers who had to let them go in order…

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10 Missionaries Presumed Drowned

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 November 1945 · page 3

The Methodist Church Organisation in Austria has been informed officially that it may now be presumed that the 10 male European…

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Two Charges Follow Truck Fatality MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1945 · page 3

Pending an inquest into the death of Denis Casey, aged 70, who died after being struck by a military truck in Cardigan street. Carlton, on Friday…

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Man Drowned in Murray River ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1945 · page 3

When a flat bottomed boat sank in the Murray river at Wellington yesterday afternoon, one of the three occupants, Frederick Price, Glenford…

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Hope Fades ‘Four on Boat Believed Drowned SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1945 · page 1

All hope of finding alive a man, his two sons and another youth missing from a 12ft. sailing boat on Botany Bay since Sunday, has now faded…

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Rainbird Injured

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 6

Connections of Rainbird "consider the horse lucky. She was galloped on during the running of the cup, and the tendon just missed being severed…

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City Brawl Three Wounded When Revolver Discharged Accidentally SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 1

A policeman and two civilians were shot when a revolver was accidentally discharged during a brawl near the corner of Kent and Erskine…

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1500 Chinese Soldiers Drowned Hong Kong

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 3

A one thousand ton vessel ferrying troops from Canton to Hong Kong, struck a mine at the mouth of the Canton River and sank, drowning…

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Airmen and Sailors Hurt in Collision Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 5

Thirteen people were injured when a car collided with a RAN utility truck in Ballarat road [?] early this morning .The car [?]…

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30 Hurt in Train Accident LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 November 1945 · page 3

Over 30 persons were in in red when a London-bound train from the west of England crashed into the [?]ear of another train near Woking Several…

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Mother-child Found Drowned ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 November 1945 · page 2

Mrs Betty Abbott, aged 31, of St. Leonards, is believed to have drowned her six weeks’ old daughter and then herself in a fishpond at her home last…

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