Hop Bales Hit Crowded Tram Four Injured
SYDNEY, Friday.—Passengers were sprayed with glass splinters when nine tons of hops in bales fell from a truck and struck a…
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Accidents, 1951
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Man Killed In Train Accident
SYDNEY, Friday.—An elderly man was killed and another man seriously injured in train accidents in Sydney suburbs this afternoon…
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Maitland Police charged a 33-year-old commercial traveller of Sydney with manslaughter after a motor cyclist had…
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Mrs. Jean Whea[?] 56, of Sunnyside-street Mayfield, suffered concussion lacerations to the head and shock when a car in which she…
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KIAMA.—Leonard Parsons (28) of Wollongong was swept from the rocks and drowned at Bombo yesterday…
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WELLINGTON, Jan. 16. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Australian speedway rider, Graham Warren, who was injured in a crash on…
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MELBOURNE.—Ten people were knocked down when a driverless car ploughed through pedestrians outside Melbourne…
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The City Coroner (Mr. T. H. See) today returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest on Geoffrey Thomas…
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Alan Melluish, 21, of Carrandotta-st., Mayfield, was taken to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital today with first and…
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Thomas Lucas, 42, miner, of Maitland-street, Kurri Kurri, had his chest injured at Richmond Main Colliery…
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Thomas Drew, 23, of Main-road, Cardiff, had his right arm fractured and suffered concussion yesterday when his motor-cycle and a…
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LONDON.—Three members of Whitehaven Scientific Association were drowned when a fishing boat in which they had…
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Frank Buchanan, 32, of Estelville, West Wallsend, miner at Stockrington No. 1. suffered abrasions to the chest and stomach, probable…
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MELBOURNE.—The 200-ton motorship Merilyn sank in 15 minutes after being struck amidships by the Longleegale…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A youth was drowned in Central Queensland floods to-day. He was Vincent John Black, 17,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Robert Benson, 19, of Sackville-street, Bexley, was fatally injured when two trucks collided in a duststorm…
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GENEVA, Mon. (A.A.P.): Avalanches on the Swiss, Italian and Austrian alps in the past few days have killed at least 78 people and injured hundreds. Forty-three are reported dead in Switzerland. 30 in Austria…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A station hand who accidentally shot himself to-day walked a mile and a half to a homestead where he…
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Three men were injured and one suffered from shock when the car in which they were travelling over turned into a ditch on the…
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SYDNEY: Two men showed remarkable fortitude yesterday in going miles for help after seriously injuring themselves. An elderly Orange dentist,…
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