Tragic Train Crash Strews Railway with Dead and Injured London
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 1
Five people were killed and fifteen were seriously injured, with 20 to 30 others slightly injured, last night, when in dense fog the night mail from Liverpool Street, London, crashed into the rear of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young Man's Death Following Car Accident at Eumungerie
Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 1
Allan John Kneen (17½ years) lost his life in a car accident about half mile on the Dubbo side of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Year Accidents Two at Baradine
The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 4
Michael Lynch, of “Goorianawa” station, Baradine, suffered concussion and severe bruises when he fell down the stairs of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Injured in Tram Lorry Collision Sydney, Friday
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 6
Five people were injured, two seriously, when a tram and heavy lorry collided with a terrific impact, in Bellovue Hill today…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Runover And Injured By Own Tractor
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 1
To be pushed through a wire fence and run over by his own tractor was the experience of a district farmer yesterday afternoon. Mr. John S. Lowe (31) of Claydon,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collision
The Wellington Times · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 1
A young man had a narrow escape from serious injury on Saturday morning last. He and another young man were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents Cut Foot While Lopping Branches
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 1
While lopping Munches oft a tree about thirty about out of Dubbo yesterday, Jack Pye, of Fitzroy Street, North Dubbo, sustained an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car Accident Woman Killed; Two Two Injured. NEWCASTLE
The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1
When a car driven by the Dean of Newcastle, the Very Rev. A. E. Morris (58), struck a telegraph pole in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peculiar Accident
The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2
A peculiar accident befel the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Young, of Coonabarabran, last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plane Accident
The Western Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1
Quick thinking by a Butler Air Transport Co. pilot averted a possible serious accident at Dubbo airfield on Tuesday. The Butler…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Injured by Falling at Olympic Pool
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1
A sixteen-year-old girl and a young boy were Injured, when they slipped on the wet cement at the Dubbo Olympic Pool on Thursday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatality
The Wellington Times · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 7
A man whose right arm was severed at the shoulder when three sets of wheels of two railway trucks passed over him, died on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Injured in Fall on Hotel Stairs
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 5
A woman received head injuries and a probable spinal injury, when she fell down a fifteen-foot staircase at the Club House…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclist Injured In Fall, But Won Six Laps In Later Race
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1
Despite injuries received, when he was involved in an accident in the final lap of the Anniversary Handicap at the cycling, carnival last night, local champion, Peter Whiteley, insisted on riding in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting Fatality in Taxi Sydney
The Western Herald · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 1
Melbourne. — A Chinese Seaman Yung Shing, was shot dead and a taxi driver, Albert Pack, seriously wounded on Wednesday night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Fatality. Death Follows Kandos Accident
The Wellington Times · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 1
Following an accident near Kandos on Saturday morning last, Mr. Wallace (Mick) Collins of Kandos, died at Prince…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fall Down Well Prominent District Grazier Seriously Injured
The Wellington Times · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 1
Mr. D. H. Barton, of "Mount Nanima," prominent district grazier and Western Districts Scout Commissioner, suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truck Accident at Mendoran Man Seriously Injured Pinned In Cabin By Load Of Wheat
Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 1
Mr. Algernon Henry Norris (33), of Mendooran, who is employed as a carrier by Mr. W. J. McMahon, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lorry Hits Tree Man Badly Injured
The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 12
Alfred H. Norris (33), of Mendooran, sustained a lacerated face and fractured jaw and abrasions to the body, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Boy Injured
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 1
Bob Yeo (11) of 12 Erskine Street trod on a broken bottle yesterday. Dubbo Ambulance treated an incised wound in his foot and conveyed him to…
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