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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Youth and Boy Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Fri: A youth and a boy were drowned in NSW today. At Toongabbie, Arthur Robert…

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Italian Market Gardener Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

WANGARATTA, Sun.: An Italian market gardener, whose wife and three children are on their way to Australia to…

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Wagga Visitor Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

A Wagga man, Mr I. D. Fletcher, suffered a dislocated shoulder when he struck, a wall at the Olympic Pool yesterday morning…

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Man Drowned in Weir Backwaters

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A State Electricity Commission employe was drowned in Jerusalem Creek, the backwaters of…

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Motor Cyclist Killed in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A 23-year-old motor cyclist was fatally injured when a car collided with the machine in St Kilda yesterday…

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Injured Jockey Regains Consciousness

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Sun.: Successful Sydney apprentice jockey, Stan Taylor 20, regained consciousness in St. Vincent’s Hospital this morning, but…

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Items of News Injured in Car Smash

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

When the steering of their car failed and the vehicle left the road and crashed into a tree, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Reeves, of Pleasant…

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Man Accidentally Fatally Wounded

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Fifty-eight-year-old Alex Beggs, of Straughton Vale, was fatally wounded in a shooting accident…

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Three Days In Australia; Pole Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5

Franciszel Popiel, 30-year-old Polish migrant, was drowned in Hume Reservoir on Friday, December 30, only three days after…

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Bri Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

Mr. Henry Evans, from Bri Bri, near Gunbar, is at present in the Hay Hospital with a damaged finger. Last Thursday, he was chopping kindling…

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Amazing Accident Has An Unsuspected Sequel For Drank

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 3

PARIS, Hon.: A motorist on the road to Besancon, ran over a man sound asleep in the middle of the…

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Collision Near Billy Hughes’ Bridge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

A motor lorry and a car were involved in a collision on Hume Highway near the overhead bridge, about seven miles north of…

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Drowned Man’s Identity Established

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Tues: Police have established that a man who lost his life while swimming at Inverloch yesterday was John Ray, 22,…

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Injured Jockey Still in Serious Condition

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 16

SYDNEY, Tues: Apprentice jockey Stan Taylor, 20, who was injured in a smash at Randwick. on Saturday, is still in a serious condition in…

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Husband, Wife Killed in Cycle Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tues.: A young married couple who were injured in a motor cycle accident on Saturday died today within…

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Three Men Missing In Severe Cyclone Believed Drowned in Flooded Creek Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

A RAIN-LOADED cyclone, driving into N.S.W. from Queensland at 20 knots, has caused :— The disappearance of three men who are believed drowned in a flooded creek near Grafton, NSW…

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Drowned in Well on Friday the Thirteenth Beechworth

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

FRIDAY, the 13th of January, proved fatal for Walter Henry Pritchard, of Baarmutha, near Beechworth. He died cooling two bottles of beer in a well, which he was to drink on…

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Serious Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

On 10th January, Mr. Ernie Pippin, manager of Mount, Manara, drove a splinter of metal into his eye. He was taken to Melbourne, where he is now…

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Young Migrant Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

MAITLAND, Fri.: Unnoticed by a crowd of about 200, a 16-year-old migrant was drowned at Maitland baths today. He was…

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Cyclist Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 2

Francis Pl[?]ming, aged 25, of Rutherglen, was badly injured when the cycle he was riding collided with a car driven by Miss…

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