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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Fatality Near Seymour Corowa Car in Smash

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 1

Word Was received yesterday that there had been a [?]fatailty near Seymour involving a party of locals who were on their way to…

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Searchers Locate Drowning Boat ?

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 November 1948 · page 1

THE finding of an the same the grappling led an underwater object in the same locality have led searches at Hume Reservoir to believe that they have located the boat from which Stanley Carey, young amateur…

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Father-son Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sun. : A man and his 7-year-old son were drowned In the harbor near the old ferry wharf at North…

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Hume Reservoir Drowning Deep Sea Divers Search for Body

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 1

TWO Melbourne deep sea divers, Messrs. H. P. Chadwick and J. Cook, scoured the floor of the Murray River near the dissipator wall below Hume Reservoir at the week-end searching for the body of…

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Cyclist Badly Injured Spine May Be Fractured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 4

When his bicycle pot out of control while he was riding down the hill on Howlong road towards the city yesterday…

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WALWA Painful Accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 5

On Saturday afternoon while Mr Clayton Hutchinson and a youth, Barney Dopper, were removing a large green gatepost from a truck,…

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Youth Injured at Flour Mill

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 November 1948 · page 2

When he was jammed between the loading platform at Burrows’ Flour mill and a moving railway truck yesterday…

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Fatal Head-on Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 November 1948 · page 1

A YOUNG man was killed and three other people injured when a motor cycle collided head-on with a light…

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[?]Yachtsmen Drowned [?]Nion’s Three-mile Swim

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 November 1948 · page 3

[?]OURNE, Sun. : Two [?]en were drowned this [?]when their yacht foun[?] off Cowes…

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Fatal Head-On Collision Between Cycle-Truck Man Killed Near the Union Bridge Car Driver, Wife, Pillion Rider In Hospital

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 November 1948 · page 3

A 22-YEAR-OLD motor cyclist, Ronald Arthur Johnson, of Port Kembla, was Killed instantly, and the driver of a baby utility, Sgt. George Slater, 28, of Bandiana Ordinance Depot, and his wife, were…

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Woman Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 November 1948 · page 2

When the cycle she was riding collided with a dog in Schubach st yesterday, Mrs Kathleen Hamilton, of Kenilworth st, was thrown…

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Accident Victims Improving

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 November 1948 · page 2

The hospital last night reported that the condition of Arthur Edgar Tomkins, 22, who was the pillion rider in last Saturday’s…

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No Inquest on Drowning Victim Without Body

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 2

An inquest into the death of Stanley Hugh Carey, who was drowned in the Murray river just below Hume reservoir wall on…

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Corowa Boy Killed in Transport Accident Near Wangaratta

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 1

News was received in Corowa early yesterday morning of an accident which happened several hours previously between Wangaratta and Glenrowan, to a transport belonging to, and driven by, Mr. Bernic Bott, of Corowa, who had with him Mr.[?]ack (Boxer) Gale, of…

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Corowa Man Killed in Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 3

WANGARATTA, Thurs: John Raymond Gale, aged 24, of Corowa, died in the Wangaratta Hospital at 8.10 this morning from…

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8 Die In Collision in France

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1948 · page 15

PARIS, Fri.: Eight persons were killed and 30 were injured when two crowded trains collided head-on between…

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Tram Struck by Lightning: Collision Follows Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1948 · page 3

A TORRENTIAL and winds accompanied by lightning, thunder and winds of up to 45 miles an hour struck Sydney shortly before 1 p.m. to-day. The storm lasted only half an hour and in that time a…

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Drowned in Murray After Double Rescue

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1948 · page 10

ADELAIDE, Sun: Collapsing after he had rescued two women from drowning in the Murray River and in attempting to save…

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10 Believed Drowned Lugger Driven on Reef

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1948 · page 3

DARWIN, Sunday.—A plane which was specially chartered to search for a pearling lugger which had been missing since…

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Semi Trailers In Collision : Xmas Cheer Goes West

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1948 · page 1

TOP: The empty semi-trailer driven by Wiliam Mertes, Albert Park, which overturned about 20 yards on the north side on the railway bridge about three miles from Table Top following a collision on Friday afternoon with (BELOW) this semi-trailer, driven by Ray Skene Magill, S.A., and owned by E.W. Simpson, Potts Point, Sydney, which was loaded with 1300 gallons of…

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