Car Crashes Into Servicemen Two Killed: Many Injured
Said to have been stolen, a rapidly driven car crashed into a group of servicemen in a Sydney suburb last night. Two were killed and thirty…
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Accidents, 1945
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Man Seriously Injured
Colin Redman, manager of the “Wambo” sawmill, Coonamble, met with a serious accident while attending to one of the steam engines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Drowned Mother and Children Rescue Boat Overturned SYDNEY
After their home at Tatham, on the Richmond River, near Casino, was flooded yesterday, following torrential rains which swept the Far…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fog Over Sydney Ferry Steamer Aground Two Injured in Traffic Accident SYDNEY
The ferry steamer Lady Chelmford went aground during a dense fog which enveloped Sydney this morning completely disrupting harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Accidents Increase
Figures released by the Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Neale, show and increase in road accidents on New South Wales to an average of 15 a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Drowned Taxi Plunges Into Creek
Containing the bodies of a man and two women, an upturned taxi-cab was found on Wednesday morning submerged in a creek, several miles…
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Yesterday afternoon Anthony William Read, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Read, of 8 Tench Street, Kingston, was on a visit to his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Injured Footballer Dies
After being tackled in a game of football played at Stroud on Saturday last, Owen Relw, aged 17, of Bulahadela could not continue to play…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed in Car Accident
Rounding a curve car skidded on loose gravel and overturned several times on the Pacific Highway, near Asquith, on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Killed by Lorry Accident at Captain’s Flat
Word was received in Queanbeyan yesterday of a sad road fatality at Captain's Flat when the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilson…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News Fatal Accident with Explosives
PERTH.—Two boys were killed and one injured while playing with exployes late yesterday afternoon at Mount Lawley, a suburb of Perth. All three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident Child Run Over by Lorry
A bad accident occurred at Captain's Flat on Wednesday last. Some children were going to school from the western end of the township and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Captain's Flat Fatality Run Over by Motor Lorry
Coronial Inquiry was held at Captain's Flat on Thursday last by A. K. Harris, J.P., into the cause death of William Robert Wilson, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Killed by Motor Lorry Verdict of Accidental Death
At Captain’s Flat on July 4, - a schoolboy, William Robert Wilson, aged five years and 11 months, was run over by a motor lorry and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →50 Killed, Many Injured Ammunition Dump Explosion PRAGUE, Thursday (A.A.P.)
It is now revealed that nearly fifty persons were killed, including German prisoners Of war, forty seriously injured and 220 slightly injured as a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News High Officials in Aircraft Accident
MELBOURNE.—Major General J. E. S. Stevens, commanding officer of the Sixth Division, has been injured in an aircraft accident With…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Wild Celebrations Six Killed, Hundreds Injured San Francisco, Friday (A.A.P.)
The third night of celebrations found crowds in a destructive mood. Nearly every plateglass window in Lower Market Street, the city’s main…
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Last evening about 5.30 Hinkler Oldfield, while cycling from Canberra Queanbeyan and nearing the latter town, was struck by a lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed in Car Smash Five Others Injured
On the Orange road, a few miles from Forbes on Saturday night a car got out control One man was killed and five others injured one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Tree-felling Accident
Engaged in tree-felling at Batlow on Saturday afternoon Timothy Corbett, aged 57 years, was killed instantly by a falling tree…
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