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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Tried to Avoid Fatal Accident Young Barber’s Dramatic Story At Inquest

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 November 1947 · page 4

Dramatic story of how he tried to avoid a fatal road accident was told by John Barry Jackson, aged 18, barber, of Bellevue st.. in Albury Coroner’s court yesterday. He was giving evidence in the inquest into the death of…

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Struck by Train Near Wodonga Elderly Woman Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 November 1947 · page 1

Struck by a goods train on the Melbourne line about a mile from Wodonga at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Catherine…

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Third Boy Drowned Body Found in Canal

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 November 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—Police to-day discovered the drowned body of an eight-year-old boy in the canal at Guildford, the third victim of…

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Three Carriages Derailed Twelve Passengers Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 November 1947 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wed.—Six passengers suffered major injuries and at least six others sustained minor cuts and bruises when…

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ZOO Killed or Injured in Train Derailment

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 November 1947 · page 1

LAHORE, Thurs.—A delayed report states that 200 persons were killed or injured when a Moslem refugee train travelling from east…

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Rain Causes Several Accidents Two Young Men Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun.—Wet streets and roads caused a number of accidents in Sydney and suburbs to-day. Two young men were seriously…

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Boy Drowned In Baths

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The four-year-old son of the resident caretaker of Fitzroy baths was found drowned in four feet of water at…

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Albury Man Killed In Most Unusual Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 1

A young Albury railway fireman, THOMAS OLIVER HEATHWOOD, was killed in unusual circumstances at…

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174 Fishermen Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.—At least 174 fishermen are believed to have been drowned in the worst storm ever experienced off the coast of…

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Items of News Springhurst Boy Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 2

Nine-year-old Frank Fox of Main st., Springhurst was admitted to Corowa hospital yesterday following an accident to Springhurst…

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Killed In Unusual Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 3

Confirmation was given yesterday to the theory that a broken neck was the cause of death of Thomas Oliver Heathwood, aged…

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Springhurst Boy Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 3

Nine-year-old Frank Fox, of Main street, Springhurst, was admitted to Corowa Hospital by Albury ambulance yesterday following an accident…

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Six Injured When Trains Collide Sydney, Thurs

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 1

When a passenger train from Richmond crashed in the rear of a stationary good train at Riverstone to-day, six people were…

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Man and Horse Killed In Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—A young man was killed and another was seriously injured when a motor cycle struck a horse on the Pacific Highway…

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Boy Swimmer Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 December 1947 · page 1

GRAFTON, Sun.—Police unsuccessfully dragged the river at McPherson’s Crossing near Grafton today for the body of Ronald…

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Two Brothers—Only Children—Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 December 1947 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Mon.—Two boys, Hubert Gordon Nickels, aged Jl, and Geoffrey David Nickels, aged 6, only children of Mr and Mrs…

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17 Deserters May Have Been Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 December 1947 · page 6

SINGAPORE. Mon.—Seventeen of 18 French Legionnaires who last week jumped overboard in Malacca Straits from the…

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Two Drowned in Car

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 December 1947 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sun. — When motor car yesterday ran off the roadway at the end of the cause way connecting Granite Island with…

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Mr. Spender M.h.r. Nearly Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY. Sun.—A former Minister for the Army, the Liberal member for Warrangah (Mr. P. C. Spender) narrowly escaped…

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Daughters Father Fatally See Injured Mr. Neil Ross (Holbrook) Meets Tragic Death

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 December 1947 · page 2

One of Ate best-known district graziers, Mr. Nell Ross, who owned the property “Stonehaven,” 11 tallies from Holbrook, met his death on Saturday morning when he fell 30 feet from a windmill stand at his home. Born at Holbrook, he was 53 years of age…

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