Two Soldiers Killed and 42 Injured in Train Disaster
LONDON, Thursday:-- Two were killed and 42 were injured, some critically, in a trooptrain disaster at Brighton station, near Sheffield. It…
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Four Killed in R.a.a.f. Collision
BRISBANE, Friday. — When two training planes collided in the air during training exercises near Ormiston…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — The Newcastle and Hunter River Co's steamer, Gwydir, of 1929 tons, went ashore on a reef…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: While heavy rain restricted visibility to a few yards, two steamers collided between Sydney and Newcastle, at…
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CASINO, Sunday.—Casino ambulance treated three patients for fractures during the week-end. Paul Scroope (9), son of Mr. Frank…
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KYOGLE, Monday.âFrank Vesper (5), an aborigine, received injuries, from which he died before he could be taken to hospital…
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Ray Hardie (16), employed as a bowser hand at J. R. Muirhead's garage, Mullumbimby, had the middle linger of his right hand fractured…
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Injuries which proved fatal were received by Frank Vesper, a five-years-old aboriginal boy, when he ran from behind a cream…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Monday.—Ray Nardie (16), employed at J. R. Muirhead's garage, had the middle finger of his right hand dislocated…
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Ronald Tindale, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Tindale, of Eyles Avenue, Murwillumbah, sustained a contused wound over the left eye and slight…
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One pupil was injured during an evacuation test at the South Lismore Public School yesterday. It was Alick Sevens (12). who fell,…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday.— Trapped in the cabin of a heavy truck while it rolled over and over 300 feet down a steep hillside off…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner, Mr. E. L. Vincent, to-day at an inquest on Francis Alan…
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Barry Vidler (8), son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Vidler, of Orion-street, Lismore, received a lacerated wound to the left foot yesterday, when he…
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CANBERRA, Friday:--In the first raid on Darwin nine were killed and 11 injured at the post office. The Postmaster, his wife…
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John Withers, a member of a garrison battalion in Queensland, on leave, was killed instantly when he was struck by a car near Boyd's…
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In the safety realm nothing is so confused as the relation of speed to accidents (says the district representative of the…
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KYOGLE, Friday—A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner, Mr. E. L. Vincent, to-day after an inquest on…
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NEWPORT (Kentucky), Sunday: Thirteen men and three women were drowned when a towboat in a fog smashed against the pier of a bridge…
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Eileen Maher (7), daughter of Mrs. A. Maher, of Wilson's Creek, was treated at Mullumbimby Ambulance Station for a deep incised wound in…
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