Show President and Ringmaster Hurt in Accident
The President of Maitland Show (Mr. W. E. Sparke) and the Ringmaster (.Mr. S. I. Parish) were injured in a car accident on…
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Accidents, 1947
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Two Accidents at Cessnock
Arthur Deaves (53), of Quorrobolong, suffered lacerations when he struck his right leg with an axe while chopping wood yesterday…
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GOONDIWINDI, Wednesday.—Camels were used to take an injured man over 85 miles of rain-sodden country to Cunnamulla Hospital…
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Death from injury accidentally received was the verdict of the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) at the inquest on Cpl. Allan Francis Horton, 24, of…
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BRUSSELS, Feb. 27. A.A.P.—Eighteen demonstrators and 12 policemen were injured when about 50,000 people clashed with…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — After about an hour's run out of the Heads to-night the freighter Lowana had to put back with an…
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SYDNEY.—Knocked down by a car in Redfern today, an elderly man had his skull fractured by the impact and his chest was torn…
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NEW YORK, Friday.—A porter was killed and 11 passengers were injured when a Pullman carriage became uncoupled on the New…
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ALTOONA (Pennsylvania), Feb. 28, A.A.P.—A Pullman carriage became uncoupled on the New York Taxes "Sunshine Special" this…
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LONDON, February 28, A.A.P.—the Westminster Coroner returned finding of accidental death at the inquest on Miss Ellen Wilkinson,…
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On February 8, the body of Mary Ann Coyston Farnham, 82, of Railway-street, Wickham, was found in a vacant allotment in Holland-street,…
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CANBERRA, Friday.— Australia had the worst accident ratio in the world, said the Federal Secretary of the Australian Automobile…
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LONDON, Friday: The Westminster Coroner yesterday returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest on Miss…
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When a lifting jack slipped from beneath a truck under which he was working at Congewai yesterday. John Brennan. 27, of Cessnock, suffered…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Seasickneo caused the death of a man in Port Phillip Bay last night. The man, Ronald McNab, 33…
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Francis Silva, 37, of Eurimbla-street, Thornton, had his left hand caught in the door of a railway carriage at Thornton and received an…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Two men and a woman were injured last night when a track in which they were travelling from Quirindi to Woolomin…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man alleged to be the driver of a truck which failed to stop after seriously injuring two persons in Woodville-road,…
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INTERSTATE COLLIER DUMOSA, berthing at Wickham Wharf yesterday afternoon after a collision in Newcastle Harbor with another collier, Canopus. Only superficial damage was caused…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two persons were killed and three injured in accidents yesterday. Mrs. Kathleen Kenny, 83, of king's…
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