Freak U.s.a. Accidents
Four odd accidents are included in a list for 1944, compiled by the United States Director of Public Information for the National Safety Council…
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French Railway Smash 150 People Killed; 200 Injured
PARIS, Friday: The killed numbered 150, and 200 were injured yesterday when a train crashed through the buffers at St. Valery…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday. Frank welford 31, married assistant engineer at the Old Bull Colliery died in the Bull District Hospital on…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: The condition of apprentice L. Tournier, who received a compound fracture of the skull when thrown…
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Edward Alfred Cullen, aged 18 years, a soldier, went for a swim on Sunday afternoon in the Hume Weir near Albury. It was…
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Mrs. Dickman, of 204 Edward-street, Wagga, suffered a probable fracture of the left thigh on Saturday morning last when she…
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While riding his bicycle late yesterday afternoon, Peter Keogh, aged 8 years, of 93 Fitzhardinge-street, Wagga, suffered severe…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Easter Time will be one runner less for doubles bookmakers to worry about. An injured leg is causing his trainer,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australians Killed in Air Collision in Canada
ST. THOMAS (Ontario). Sunday: The Canadian Press Association says: Three airmen including two Australians, were killed…
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BRISBANE, Monday: The tragedy that involved the death of a whole family in Woleebee, is now revealed as the sequel to a fatal…
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About 4.45 yesterday afternoon Mr. William Albert Reberger, aged 51 years, of 9 Shaw street, Wagga, was severely injured in a collision while…
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GOSFORD, Tuesday: Early on Sunday morning Mr. H. Wall, an instructor at the Gosford Boys' Training School, was struck over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Christmas Day Tragedy Inquiry Into Corbie Hill Drowning
The death by drowning of Alan Francis Blencowe, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Blencowe, of Corble Hill, was the subject of an…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A man was drowned at Maroubra this afternoon. He was seen waging his arms, but by the time the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A 13 months old baby was drowned when it fell into a bath to-day. The mother left the baby with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Injured Fell Thirty Feet From Window
SYDNEY, Thursday: Audra Carmen M'Dermott, of Darlinghurst, fell 30 feet from a window when the dawn patrol of the vice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Tragedy Grief Over Accident Led to Murder
The tragedy the wiped out a fa[?]lly at Woleebee Queensland it is now known was the seq[?] to a fatal accident…
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Many people can look back on the year 1944 with the greatest [?] ence, for it was the year in which they, missed death or Injury by the…
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Mr. W. French, aged 84 years of Currawarna, suffered probable fractures to the ribs late on Saturday afternoon when he fell…
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Mr. G. A. P. Hicks, railway officer at Bethungra, while engaged handling a coupling be tween trucks got his hand badly…
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