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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Girl at Picnic Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 November 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Merylin Tainton, aged 14 years, of Mary st., Blackburn, was drowned in the River Yarra at Kangaroo…

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Fatal Motor Cycle Accident

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 8 November 1950 · page 3

That two New Australians died from [?] received [?] they were thrown from a motor [?] on September 24, [?]…

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Two Men Killed in Head-on Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.:. Two men were killed and 11 others injured when a lorry and a car collided head-on near…

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Moore Injured; Out for Five Weeks

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 November 1950 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wed: The injury George. Moore received when Indian Chief fell during the running of the Melbourne Cup will prevent him riding…

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Coroner Watkins Finds Two Boys Accidentally Drowned "I Will Try to Get Him Out,” Brother Said

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 1

MR. E. B. WATKINS, coroner for the Deniliquin police district, found that William James Melville and John Edward Melville, aged 11 and 9 years respectively, schoolchildren, were accidentally drowned on October 22 about…

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Wodonga Youth Hero of Near Drowning

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 November 1950 · page 5

Twenty-year-old George [?] son of Mr. and Mrs Bert Reuss, “Parkview Dairy,” is the hero of the near drowning fatality…

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Migrant in Hume Drowned Weir

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 November 1950 · page 1

A Hungarian migrant, Iwan Plesko, cook, about 30, of Bonegilla Immigration Centre, was drowned in Hume Weir…

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Corowa Auctioneer Injured in Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 November 1950 · page 13

Well known Corowa auctioneer, Mr Darcy Fraser, was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital on Monday night after his arm had…

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Wine Flowed Freely at ‘Billy Hughes’ Corner’ Albury District Court Told of Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 November 1950 · page 7

On the afternoon of December 3, 1948, two semi-trailers collided on the Hume Highway, about three miles from Table Top. Once of the vehicles was loaded with 20 hogsheads of wine from Adelaide. The wine flowed freely from the burst casks and the other semi-trailer lay on…

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Fatal Accident

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 15 November 1950 · page 10

Patrick James [?] of [?] was killed instantly when a motor truck crushed into a tree at the [?] of Murray and Finley Streets,…

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Six filled, 14 Injured In Norwegian Rail Smash

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 November 1950 · page 15

OSLO, Wed: At least six people died and another fourteen were feared killed or injured when an Oslo-bound express hurtled at full…

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Accident to Mr. Darcy Fraser

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 1

It was with great regret that Corowa residents learned of the serious accident which happened to Mr. Darcy Fraser on Monday…

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New Move to Try and Cut Road Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 November 1950 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thurs.: Appalled by the shacking number of road accidents the Australian. National Road Safety Council would…

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Wahgunyah Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 November 1950 · page 2

An elderly man, Jack Hancock, of Wahgunyah, suffered a cut over eye and abrasions when he fell through the decking on the bridge…

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94 Drowned in Ferry Upset

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 November 1950 · page 1

BELGRADE, Fri.: A ferry broke its cables on the River Sava yesterday and. overturned, drowning 94 people…

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Wilkins Injured the Arctic

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 November 1950 · page 8

NEW YORK, Fri.: The Australian explorer-scientist Sir Hubert Wilkins, 62, has been injured somewhere in the Arctic while…

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School Head Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Principal of Marist Brother’s High School, Hamilton, was fatally injured when his bicycle and a car…

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Man Who Couldn’t Swim Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.: A man who could not swim was drowned in Botany Bay today when he fell overboard from a row boat…

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And No One Was Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 6

This Ford V8, driven by Mr Albert Farrah, of Albury, overturned at the corner of Macaulay and Crisp streets after a collision with a sedan car driven by Mr Norman Ogilvie. No one was injured…

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30 Injured in Factory Explosion

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1950 · page 9

ROME. Sun.: Thirty workers were injured, five seriously, when a whole section of a rayon and cellulose factory blew up at Forli,…

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