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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

494 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 25

Three People Injured in Car Smash

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 2

Three people were injured when a light tourer car got out of control and crashed into a tree on the Morven road, two miles from…

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42 killed, 61 injured in U.S. plane crashes

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sun.: Forty-two. persons were killed, 1 were injured, and eight are missing following three major plane crashes on the American Pacific coast yesterday…

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Yugoslav Drowned Fatality At Edward River Clothes On Bank Give Clue

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

THE failure of Chris Mallek, 71 years of age, a Yugoslav, of Deniliquin, to return to his home, led to a search being made at the Edward River for him, and his body was subsequently found in about fifteen feet of…

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Car wrecked in collision with transport

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 11

Although a motor car was almost completely wrecked when it struck a stock transport on the Wodonga-Tallangatta road,…

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Accident in Garage Man Suffers Electric Shock

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 3

Suffering from the effects of a severe electric shock, Victor Phillips, aged 30 years, and employed by Kairl Bros.,…

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Soldier Drowned at Seymour

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 7

MELBOURNE. Fri.: A military policeman was drowned just before midnight last night in a pool in the Goulburn River Seymour…

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Man, wife and son drowned at Koondrook

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A South Melbourne wharf laborer, his wife and their young son were drowned at the weekend in Gunbower…

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Three injured in Corowa accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 2

Three men were admitted to Corowa Hospital last night suffering from injuries received when the car in which they were…

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Girl, Youth Drowned at Carrum

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Caught in the undertow and carried 200 yards out into deep water a 16-year-old girl and a youth of…

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Three Corowa Men Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 1

On Monday, night three men were injured when the car they were travelling in ran off an embankment in Bullecourt road,…

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Noreuil Park tragedy Boy accidentally drowned, Coroner finds

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1952 · page 9

A 15-year-old boy who dived into shallow water at Noreuil Park on December 29 and struck his head on the bed of the…

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Lifeboat Crashes : One Killed, 8 Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1952 · page 12

WILMINGTON (Cal.) Tues.: One man was killed and eight others were injured yesterday when a steel lifeboat fell 75 feet…

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Mr. Clive Burt killed in rail crossing accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1952 · page 3

Mr. Clive Harcourt (“Nipper”) Butt, late of Albury, was fatally injured yesterday near Nagambie, 35 miles from Melbourne, when a utility In which he was travelling collided with a Melbourne to Numurkah train at a…

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P.M.G. Linesman’s Death Accidental, Coroner Finds

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 February 1952 · page 7

Andrew Larkin, P.M.G. linesman, 56, married, of North st., died from acute dilatation of stomach following an injuries he suffered accidentally on November 8 last when working as a…

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Three Boys Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 19

NORTH ATTEBORO (Massachusetts), Fri.: Three 11-year-old schoolboys drowned here yesterday when ice on a pond collapsed…

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Verdict of accidental death

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 February 1952 · page 8

A finding of accident death was given yesterday by the Coroner (Mr. A, S, Kendall) at the inquest into the death of Ronald Edward Smyth, Rand. On the right of…

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Woman believed drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police and lifesavers are searching for a 50-year-old woman who has not been seen since she went for her…

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Constable tells of accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 February 1952 · page 12

Albury police constable, Thomas Francis Duggan gave evidence before Mr. Quiggin, S.M., of an accident in which be…

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Death From Drowning Inquest On River atality

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 3

AN inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Chris-Mallek, aged 77, of Deniliquin, who was drowned in the Elward River on January 23, was held before Mr. E. B. Watkins, at the Deniliquin Coroner’s…

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New Equipment Saved Man Nearly Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 11

A man reseued from drowning in the river near Noreuil Park, just before eight o’clock last night, owes his life to a new…

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