Boy Drowned in Baths; Second Saved
SYDNEY, Friday.—One boy was drowned and later a boy got into difficulties in the one spot at Enfield Olympic Pool…
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Accidents, 1947
785 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 40
One Dead, 4 Injured in Motor Smash
SYDNEY, Saturday morning.—A man was killed and four people were injured when a car crashed into a post in Military-road, Mosman, early…
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Extensive injuries were suffered by Ernest Meredith, 37. of Ernest Street, Belmont, today, when he was struck on the head by the rim of a car…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—One man was drowned yesterday and many people were endangered in the most disastrous flood in south-east Queensland since 1893. Many others were injured while they were being rescued…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday. — John Joseph Everitt, 40, plasterer, of Bower-street, Lakemba, was washed from rocks and drowned at Windang…
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When a lorry fell 40ft. into the Allyn River on Saturday night, Herbert Henry Owen, 57, of High-street, Branxton, was drowned…
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KATOOMBA, Sunday. — Cecil Clough, 31 of Whitton-lano Katoomba, was severely injured when he overbalanced and fell 75ft down…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Bravesia, who cost his present owner 75 guineas as a maiden performer, and who was so badly injured in…
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Audrey Younger, a 15-year-old visitor from Aberdare. trod on a broken bottle buried in the sand at Newcastle Beach this morning. She…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—At least five people were seriously injured in accidents to-day. Holiday road traffic was very…
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Arthur Tiernan (37), of Curzon R.d. New Lambton. received concussion. contusions and a small laceration to the head and shock when he was…
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Arthur Tiernan, 37, of Curzon-road, New Lambton, received cuts and bruises to the head, and shock, when he was hit by a bicycle at the…
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GOSFORD, Tuesday.—Norman Lee. 37, was seriously injured while helping to erect Sole Brothers' circus tent in Gosford this afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — George Moore, jockey, was struck over the right eye while playing in a cricket match between jockeys and Coogee…
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A special tubular steel non-collapsible stretcher was used by Newcastle Ambulance bearers this morning to remove an injured wharf…
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LONDON, Jan. 30. A.A.P.—Lloyds states that the motor-vessel Port Alma, sailing from Bluff to London, collided with the laden oil tank…
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A twin child, Marilyn Davies, 11 months, of Russell-street, Homeville, was revived yesterday by artificial respiration after she was submerged…
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Ellis Green, 20, of Catherine-street, West Cessnock, a fitter's apprentice at Burlington's Mills, Rutherford, received extensive…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—When she fell 15ft. from a first floor window of a block of flats in Kellett-street, King's Cross, to-night, Mrs. Emma…
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LISBON, Thursday.—Sixteen members of the crew and two passengers were drowned when the steamer Samwater (7219 tons) was abandoned on fire off the north-west coast of Spain on Wednesday…
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