Boy Injured by Gas Explosion
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Kerr McCrumm. 13, was badly burned about the face and neck at his home at Manly to-night. The accident occurred when his mother lit the…
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Accidents, 1941
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Mystery of Open Rail Gates Crossing Fatality at Tuggerah
Police and Railway Department officials from Newcastle went to Gosford to-day to investigate the circumstances of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—He did not think there was any need for a Royal Commission to inquire to the R.A.A.F. of the number of recent accidents, the…
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When he Jumped of a verandah at his home in Bull-street, Mayfield, yesterday, George Read, 11, fractured his left leg. Newcastle Ambulance took him to the general…
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Two men were injured at Cardiff Railway Workshops to-day. They were Fred Fowler, 36, of Skelton Street. Hamilton, a coppersmith, and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Edward John Thornton, 36, single, a wharf labourer, was drowned when he was knocked into the water while working at Jones Bay…
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Harold Davidson, 16, of Maitland-road, Mayfield, Suffered a lacerated and contused wound to the thigh, and shock, when kicked by a horse. Davidson was leading horses…
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On his return from the Bandy Hollow railway job to-day the Northern Organiser of the Australian Workers' Union (Mr. T. Breen) said that men…
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Severe injuries were received by George Turvey, 45, of Barton-street, Mayfield, when he fell while riding a bicycle at the corner of Church and Crebert Streets, Mayfield…
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At least 12 people are believed to have lost their lives in widespread floodings in Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—A heavily laden tourist bus plunged down an embankment and overturned on the Federal Highway, 20 miles from Canberra to-day. Ten…
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Seven people were injured when the Thallon mail train crashed head on into hundreds of tons of rock and earth brought down by a landslide between two tunnels at Rangeview, five miles from Toowoomba, at 11 p.m. yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—So badly shocked was a driver when his tram seriously injured a country woman at Newtown to-day that he collapsed and had to be…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Mrs. Ivy Thompson, of Smithfield, had her right arm severely injured in a collision at Smithfield this afternoon. She is in Auburn…
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James Mullen, 27. of Minmi-road, Wallsend. a miner employed at Freeman's Tunnel Colliery. Stockrington. was caught between a skip and a prop…
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Four people were injured, none seriously, when a car overturned on a sharp bend at New Lambton Heights last night…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—One of the 10 people injured when the Thallon mail train was wrecked late last night, Clara Ibell. 34, of Middle…
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Fred Macey, 8. of Awaba Road, Toronto, fell out of a sulky this morning near his home. Lake Macquarie Ambulance treated him for a fractured left…
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Twelve persons were injured—one fatally—when the Thallon mail train crashed into a landslide as it left a tunnel near Toowoomba late on Sunday night…
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Edward Smith, 38, of Nelson-street, Wallsend, suffered a probable fracture of his right foot when at work in the Elermore Tunnel colliery. A horse trod on…
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