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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

447 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 23

Little Girl in Street Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 2

Early on Saturday afternoon a 9—year—old girl. Linnette Terese Norman, of 432 Dean street, was injured in a collision with a motor van…

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Cars in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 2

Two cars, one driven by Mr. Leslie Albert Plum, of Tawonga roadside, and the other by Mr. William Edward Golley, of Wilson…

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Hundreds Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 May 1949 · page 15

RIO DE JANEIRO, Tues.: Hundreds of buzzards hovered over rained towns along the lower Amazon River yesterday as…

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Young Footballer Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 May 1949 · page 2

While playing for South Albury Juniors against North Albury Juniors in the curtain raiser football match at the…

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Rovers Still Win; Players Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 May 1949 · page 12

WANGARATTA, Sun.: Throe [?] bers of the Rovers team were injure in the match against Moyhu, [?] Rovers played with only 16 men…

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Two Firemen Injured Fighting Fire

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.: Two firemen were injured, one seriously when a 30ft. brick wall collapsed while they were fighting a…

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Ship Cut in Half; Three Of Crew Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 5

NAPLES. Monday : The 500-ton Italian cargo ship Franca was yesterday cut in half and sank after a collision with another ship…

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Four Killed, 40 Injured In Bus Smash SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1

THE acting Minister for Transport (Mr. Sheahan) has called for a “searching inquiry” into this morning’s bus smash at the Spit, when four people were killed and…

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Wife Killed; Husband Seriously Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A woman was fatally injured and a man seriously injured when they were struck by a car on Pacific…

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Bus And Truck In Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 3

An East-West bus and an ice and wood delivery truck owned by R. Hutchison and driven by C. Stevens collided at the corner of Dean and David sts. shortly before nine o’clock on Saturday. morning. No one was injured…

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Injured Cook Put Off Freighter

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: After battling through heavy seas the interstate freighter Mildura (3478 tons) put into Jervis Bay this afternoon to…

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Fatal Accident Man Dies after Fall from Truck

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 June 1949 · page 2

Howard W. Bioffwitch, aged 33 years of Bowden, who had been temporarily employed at Magenta Station, Balranald, was a passenger on…

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So [?] Drowned When Airliner Crashes New York

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 3

ONLY 25 survivors have sighted from an American airliner carrying 81 persons, which crashed into the Caribbean Sea, near Puerto Rica to-day. The survivors were located on…

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Girl Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 2

Lorna Beach, aged 14, of Swift st, Albury, suffered lacerations to the scalp when she fell from her bicycle in Kiewa st. shortly after…

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Sandy Greek Accident Victim Appeal

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 8

A public meeting was held in the Sandy Creek Hall to discuss ways and means of raising funds to assist Claude Miller, who…

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Invalid Fe[?]ner Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 2

Michael [?] Jvalid pensuc[?]er, Bis, suffer. a pro[?] fra[?] of the left struck by…

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Seven U S. Airmen Drowned Off Jap. Coast

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 1

TOKIO, Fri.: One officer and six enlisted men of the US- Far East .Air Force were drowned this morning when a…

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Jindera Man Badly Hurt in Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 3

Severe injuries were suffered by James Hector Jackson, 40, of Jindera, when he was knocked down by a motor cycle on the…

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Injured Man's Cycle ;—

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 June 1949 · page 1

The cycle owned by Mr. James Hector Jackson photographed shortly after be was injured in a road accident at Jindera on Friday evening…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 June 1949 · page 2

A 23-year-old soldier suffered lacerations to the face when he was struck by a car on Tallangatta road, at Little River, on…

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