Man Killed, Train Guard Injured
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—One man was fatally injured and another had his leg broken when the last carriage of a train from Melbourne to…
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Accidents, 1946
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2 Hurt in Motor-Cycle Accident
A boy was injured and a girl suffered from shock when a motor-cycle and sidecar left the road and dropped over an embankment in…
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Joseph Holingshed, 53, of Nulkabar, a waggon repairer at Aberdare Colliery, suffered injuries to his chest when he strained himself while…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Elizabeth Kay, 38, of Woolloomooloo, was was found drowned in 15 feet of water in the women's section of the…
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LONDON, Jan. 14. A.A.P.—About 50 persons were injured when a train crashed into a buffer stop at Waterloo station. Six of the…
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Two men were injured, one seriously, when a motor cycle ran into a kerb on Memorial Drive yesterday afternoon…
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LONDON, Jan. 14. A.A.P.—The film actress Enid Stamp-Taylor, 41, died from a fractured skull caused by a fall in a bathroom…
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BRISBANE: A bomb exploded at 10.45 last night on the back verandah of a house in Grafton Street, Cairns…
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At work in Stockrington No. 2 colliery yesterday, Alexander Paterson, 49, of Elizabeth-street, Holmesville, a shiftman, suffered an ankle…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Twenty-four people were injured when a tram crashed into the rear of another on the Sydney Harbour Bridge early…
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CAIRNS, Tuesday.—One man was killed and five other people injured when a bomb or hand grenade exploded after being thrown on to the back verandah of a house in Cairns last night…
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When the steering gear of his lorry jammed, while he was driving up Cobb's Hill, near West Maitland, late yesterday. Lester Mitchell, of…
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A motor-cyclist was seriously injured and pillion rider received facial injuries in a collision at the corner of Parkway-avenue and…
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Francis Duncan, 8, of Kendall-street, Beresfield, was drowned in a disused brick pit at Ashtonfields, near Thornton, yesterday…
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WOLLONGONG, Thursday.—Margaret Dunn, 17, shop assistant, of Corrimal, died in the Wollongong Hospital as the result of multiple…
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Luke Matthews, 49, of Weston St. Weston, a miner employed at Stan ford Main No. 2 colliery, received a probable fracture of the left leg…
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William Stewart, 63, retired mineworker, of Mt. View-road, Bellbird, died in Cessnock Hospital un Saturday from injuries received in a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—There was one death and injuries were received by eight people in traffic accidents in Sydney this week-end…
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Edward Rowney, 22, of Auckland-street, Newcastle, had a thigh fractured when a car and motor-cycle collided on the Pacific Highway at…
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Prank Hillary (25), of Melbourne Street, Aberdare, a lorry driver, employed at Abermain Colliery, fractured fingers on his" left hand when…
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