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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Hospital Patient Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sun.: Vernon Esson, a patient at Strickland Convalescent Hospital, Vaucluse, was admitted to St. Vincent’s Hospital…

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Soldier, Migrant Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

When the motor cycle he was riding collided with a cyclist, Laszlo Ribarics, 24, Hungarian migrant, of Puckapunyal,…

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Fatally Injured When Tractor Capsizes

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 1

MR. Otto Schliebs, 48, single, tractor driver, of Gerogery, was fatally injured, and a migrant was seriously hurt when the tractor on which they were travelling got out of control,…

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San Domenico Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Mon: Crack Sydney sprinter San Domenico ran a rusty nail into his hoof at Flemington today but the injury was not seriously…

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Graphic Pictures Of Yesterday’s Road Accident Worst Smash On Albury Wodonga Road For Tears

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 1

SIX people were injured when a tourer car and an army jeep collided head- on about 4.30 yesterday afternoon. The smash occurred on Flanagan’s Creek bridge on the Albury-Wodonga road…

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Motor Collision Brings Fine

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 2

Sequel to a collision between a utility track and a motor car at the intersection of David and Smo[?] on November…

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Accident Victims Still Seriously Ill

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 2

Condition of two soldiers who were injured in the head-on collision between a jeep and a car on the Albury-Wodonga road on…

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New Australian Woman’s Death Was Accidental

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 4

MRS. EUGENIA DENISOW, a “New Australian,” who had only been in Australia six weeks, died on December 25, 1949, at Bonegilla from the effects of injuries suffered through being accidentally…

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Van Turns Over Two Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 2

Two men are now in the Hay Hospital with injuries received when the panel van they were travelling in turned over on the…

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Local and General Gerogery Man Dies Following Tractor Accident

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 2

Mr. Otto Schliebs, aged 48, single, of Gerogery, was fatally injured, and a migrant was seriously hurt when the tractor in which they were travelling…

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Police Car and Utility in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Sun.: Four detectives had narrow escapes from injury when a utility truck collided with their patrol car in…

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Two Drowned At Sydney Beaches Man Gives Life For Girl SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 1

A 23-year-old life-saving captain was drowned at North this afternoon while trying to rescue an 18-year-old girl swept out to sea by a strong undertow. He was James Peryman, son of the manager of the Commonwealth…

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Toddler Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 2

Ronald Hore, about 4, of Wyse st, Albury, suffered an injury to his ankle when he fell from a bicycle and caught his foot in the…

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Strange Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 4

A farmer in California was spraying weeds with sodium chlorate, which saturated his trousers. When they dried, the friction as he…

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“Bathed While Under Influence—Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 9

SYDNEY, Wed.: City Coroner (Mr A. N. Bott) found today that a middle-aged spinster found dead in her bathtub on January, 20 had…

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Head-on Collision

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 1

A Dodge tourer and three-ton truck collided head on at the eight mile peg on the Jerilderie road early Thursday morning. It…

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How Lifesaver Was Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thurs: A North Cronulla lifesaver whose line became fouled with seaweed during the rescue of a 16-year-old girl, was…

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Three Injured In Young Street Smash

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 February 1950 · page 1

Three men are in Albury hospital—two critical and one serious—following a collision between two vehicles at the intersection of Young and Tribune sts, about 7.30 o’clock…

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Fault at Hume Weir Discovered in Search for Drowned Man Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 February 1950 · page 5

A diver last year found a serious fault in a subsidiary wall of Hume Weir, near Albury, states a report by the River Murray Commission tabled in the House of…

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Little Boy Feared Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday : Police fear that a 4½ years old boy holidaying at Manly with his mother, may have been drowned in…

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