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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

447 stories in Murray's papers · page 18 of 23

Pilot, Passenger Injured in Plane Crash Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 6

A pilot and his passenger were injured when a Tiger Moth aeroplane crash-landed at Thresa Park, seven miles from…

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Rain Ruins Cement, Following Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 7

Eight tons of cement, valued at almost £100, was ruined by rain yesterday afternoon when a transport bringing it from…

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Missing Doctor Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 19

SYDNEY, Mon.: Thirty police and civilians patrolling the beaches near Kiama in search for missing Sydney doctor, Henry…

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Woman Injured in Hospital Fall

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 October 1949 · page 2

A woman patient in Murray Valley Hospital, who fell from a top-storey window of the hospital on Monday afternoon, is believed…

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Three Injured in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 3

Three people were injured late last evening when a threeton truck collided with a utility truck at the intersection of…

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Double Drowning Tragedy

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 2

LAUNCESTON, Wed.: A woman and a man were drowned at Beauty Point, near the mouth of Tamar River, early…

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Four Injured When Plane Crashes

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Wed.: Four passengers escaped injury, but the pilot was critically injured when an East-West Airlines…

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Kemps Death Was Accidental Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 16

City Coroner (Mr Raschke) today found that Melbourne lightweight, Archie Kemp’s, death was accidental, and resulted from blows received in a fair fight…

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Three Injured in Car, Motor Cycle Collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: people were critically injured when a car and a bicycle collided on Hume Highway at…

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Poisoning Fatality Pictures

The Pastoral Times · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 2

Pictured below is the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Watts, North Deniliquin, whose four-year-old son, Ernest Edward, died at Deniliquin Hospital on Sunday, July 31. as a result of drinking water from a tin containing enough arsenic to kill the entire…

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Man Blinded in Accident Given £6548

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: In the Supreme Court today Mr Justice Ligertwood, when awarding £6548/19/6 damages to Colin…

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Girl Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 2

Judith Cahill, 16, of 468 Dean Albury, was admitted to hospital suffering from lacerations to her right leg, right arm and shock…

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A Toddler Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 2

Marion Putnam, aged 3, of 823 Frauenfelder st., Albury, suffered slight abrasions to her left leg when she ran out from behind…

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Little Boy Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday : Dennis Morgan Eales, 3½ years, was drowned this afternoon when he fell into the water oil a pier at…

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Car Driver Killed in Head-on Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: A head-on collision between two ears at Homebush early today resulted in the driver of one ear being…

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20 Believed Dead in Sea Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 18

LONDON, Tues.: The 2025 tons British steamer Maystone sank in a collision early today with the 18,300 tons British aircraft…

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Horse Killed; Jockeys Injured at Corowa

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

A HORSE was killed and two jockeys were injured in a bad smash during the running of the W. H. Lang Moderate Handicap at Corowa picnic races yesterday. The horse killed was Stylish…

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Two Men Injured When House Collapses

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

Two Rutherglen men were injured yesterday afternoon when a house they were transporting on a jinker collapsed…

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Two Men Injured When House Collapses

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

Two Rutherglen men were injured on Tuesday afternoon when a house they were transporting on a linker collapsed and pinned them…

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Wangaratta News Hems Accidental Deaths

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 3

A verdict of death from injuries accidentally received was returned by the deputy Coroner (Cr. Ryan, JP) at an inquest into the deaths…

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