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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Four Injured at Speed Meeting Wheel Crashes Into Crowd ADELAIDE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 2

Three policemen who were trying to keep a crowd off the track were Among four persons injured during the final race of the…

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Inverell Boys' Escape from Drowning

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 2

At Inverell four boys narrowly escaped drowning in the swollen Macintyre River on Saturday They were playing in a tree…

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Story Of Near Drowning Was Incorrect

The Inverell Times · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

Yesterday, at least one city newspaper carried a story to the effect that four. Inverell boys had narrowly escaped drowning when…

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Queensland Surf Fatality Search For Body Fails BRISBANE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 2

Two planes and a surfboat were used to aid relays of swimmers and divers in an unsuccessful search throughout yesterday for the body…

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Nine Killed 71 Injured in Attack on Arabs Devastation By Exploding Jeep

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Monday.—It is officially reported that nine persons were killed and 71 injured when a violent explosion wrecked the Arab Committee's building in Jaffa yesterday…

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Another Jew Bomb Outrage Explosion Wrecks Arab Committee Building 14 Dead: 98 Injured JERUSALEM

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 1

American Associated Press says the latest official count of casualties in the Jaffa explosion gives 14 killed, 20…

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Accident Victims U.S. Doctor's Discovery

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1948 · page 4

A method to tide over victims of severe accidents or infections, who could not survive the shock of an immediate arm or leg amputation,…

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Level Crossing Fatality Verdiet of Accidental Death WOLLONGONG

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 2

At the inquest yesterday into the deaths of Alfred Crew and Henry Williams, of Illawarra South, who were killed when an train struck…

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Nolle Prosequi In Level Crossing Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 6

The Attorney-General has decided not to prosecute in the case Rex v. Georgina Margaret Byrne. Mrs. Byrne, gatekeeper at Mver's…

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15 Die in French Air Accident Passenger Plane Crashes PARIS

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 2

Fifteen were killed in on airsmasn over France last night. Reuter says the [?]gedy [?]ccurred when a Paris-Brussels passenger…

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Oakwood Road Smash Condition of Accident Victims Now Very Satisfactory

The Inverell Times · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1

The condition of Charles Duddy (22), of “Ardesier,” Graman, who sustained a badly fractured skull, leg, and arm in an accident on the Oakwood rood early on Friday night, was reported this morning to be “very satisfactory.”…

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Accident Victims’ Condition

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 4

Reports this morning state that the condition of Messrs. Charles Duddy and Peter Graham Body, victims of Friday night’s car and lorry smash on…

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Timber Worker Injured Accident at Styx River

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 6

Runan Makila, a timber worker, was injured when timber fell on him at the Styx River yesterday. Makila was transported by private…

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6 Injured in Motor Accidents on Friday

The Inverell Times · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 1

Six persons were injured— three seriously—in two major motor accidents near Inverell during the week-end…

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Motor Accident near Oakwood

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 3

On Friday week Charles Duddy (22) of "Ardersier," Graman, sustained a badly fractured skull, leg and arm in an accident on the…

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100 Drowned in Ship Capsize

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 1

SANTIAGO (Chile), Wednesday.— About 100 persons were drowned on Monday night when the steamship Cautin capsined…

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100 Drowned When Vessel Capsized Santiago

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 1

About 100 persons were drowned on Monday night when the steamship, Cautin, capsized and sank in the Imperial River in Southern Chile…

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Jocky's Jaw Fractured Glen Innes Course Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 15

Jockey F. Hickman received compound fracture of the jaw and acial abrasions when he was kicked by a horse during early morning…

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Inverell Better News of Accident Victims

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 1

Mr. Ray Nicholson, one of four victims in Saturday night’s accident on the Elsmore Road, regained consciousness at the District…

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Man's Hand Injured Stitches No[?]

Guyra Argus · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

Unloading a gas cylinder at the rear of the Royal Hotel, on Monday, Mr. Norman Simpson received a painful injury when it fell on his…

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