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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Sequel to Collision and Fire Man Fined in Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 3

Sequel to a collision on the Hume highway near Table Top on April 2, when a semi-trailer and its 10-ton load of rope were destroyed by fire,…

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Two Dead on Tanker Radio Messages Tell Of Accident PERTH

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 7

Radio messages today to Albany agents, Da[?]y and Co., state that the tanker British Confidence is making for Albany following an accident…

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Boxer Critically Injured Cleveland (Ohio)

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 6

Jimmy Doyle, aged 23, is in hospital a critical condition as a result of injuries sustained in a boxing bout in which he sought to wrest the world…

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Injured Boxer Dies Cleveland (Ohio)

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 5

Jimmy Doyle, aged 23, of Los Angeles, died today from bead injuries he received in his title bout against the welterweight champion,…

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Two Men Critically Injured In Explosion Glen Davis

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 5

Two men were seriously injured in an explosion in National Shale Oil mine today. Injured men are Allan Webb and Stephen Glew, both of Glen…

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Car in Flames After Collision Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 June 1947 · page 1

A car burst into flames at the corner of Swanston and Bourke sts, city, tonight after it had collided with a truck. The driver of the car, Walter…

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Items of News Quarby Worker Injured by Boulder

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 July 1947 · page 2

A Za[?]atti, a workman at Hurricane Hill quarry, Culcairn, suffered a compound fracture of his left leg and [?] abrasions to his left foot when…

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Local and General Car Accident on Booligal Road

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 July 1947 · page 2

Whilst returning home from a trip to the country last evening, Mr. Keith Gunn, local manager for Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., was driving his…

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Sequal to Accident: Two Men Ramanded Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 July 1947 · page 5

Sidney Thomas Napier, aged 40 years, and John Rollo English, aged 23 years, were each remanded on £100 bail in the Newtown police court…

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Man Believed Drowned SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 July 1947 · page 5

Sydney water police searched [?] more than three hours for a man [?] ported to have jumped overboard [?] a Manly ferry in the harbon. A…

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Train Wrecked in Fog Collision Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 July 1947 · page 7

Near Riddell railway station early today, a 150-ton engine and four trucks of a goods train from Bendigo plunged over a bank after…

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Jockey Seriously Injured Brisbane. Wednesday

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 July 1947 · page 8

Jockey R. Ralston was seriously injured yesterday when riding a horse at Doomben. A kidney has been removed and his condition tonight was described as serious,…

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Farmer Injured When Wood Cutting

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 2

Wood cutting on his farm at Walbundrie yesterday afternoon, Harold Gibbons was injured when a log fell on him. Mr Gibbons and his son,…

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Injured Cyclist Killed Whilst Receiving Aid Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 July 1947 · page 4

A motor cyclist who had been flung on the road in the early morning was run over and killed by an oncoming car while passers-by were rendering…

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Ship Hits Mine; 19 Drowned LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 July 1947 · page 1

The Turkish steamer Silivri hit a mine and sank opposite Budrum n south-western Turkey, says Reuters, Nineteen of a crew of 29 were…

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Young Man Killed; Car-Bus Collision CESSNOCK

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 July 1947 · page 1

Alan Cameron, aged 23 years, of Edit st. Cessnock, was killed last night when a single-seater car in which he was .travelling, collided with…

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12 Injured When Truck Overturns PERTH

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 July 1947 · page 1

When a three-ton truck carrying 19 people overturned on Albany Highway about 26 miles from Perth on Saturday morning, 12 people were…

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Five Men Seriously Injured in Truck Capsize Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 July 1947 · page 1

Five men ware seriously injured and 10 others sustained minor injuries when a truck carrying soccer players and supporters capsized on Wangi…

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Injured Burrumbuttock Player [?]

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 July 1947 · page 6

“Scotty” McLaughlin, who was conveyed to hospital by ambulance after being injured in the Jindera-Burrumbuttock match on Saturday, returned home on Sunday. He…

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Three Believed Drowned London

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 July 1947 · page 3

Three men are believed to have been drowned when their [?]ft. yacht capsized in a squall off the Pembrokeshire coast yesterday…

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