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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Spectators Help Victim Of Newtown Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

MARGARET CLARKE (2), being comforted by an ambulance officer. She suffered severe concussion abrasions, lacerations and…

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Spectators Help Victim Of Newtown Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

ONE OF THE TWO PERSONS seriously injured in today's road smash at Newtown, William Atkinson, being assisted by onlookers. his leg was broken. MARGARET CLARKE (2), being…

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Spectators Help Victim Of Newtown Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

MARGARET CLARKE (2), being comforted by an ambulance officer. She suffered severe concussion, abrasions, lacerations and…

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Spectators Help Victim Of Newtown Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

MARGARET CLARKE (2), being comforted by an ambulance officer. She suffered severe concussion abrasions, lacerations and…

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Kaiser Steel Chief Dies After Car Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Peter D. Nielsen (42), vice-president in charge of operations at the Kaiser Steel Plant, died yesterday from…

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Kaiser Steel Chief Dies After Car Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Peter D. Nielsen (42), vice-president in charge of operations at the Kaiser Steel Plant, died yesterday, from injuries received in a car accident on…

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Injured When Horse Falls

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 March 1946 · page 14

V. LAWRENCE being assisted into the ambulance after Stansfield had dropped dead in the Ramsgate Trial Handicap at Moorefield yesterday…

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Dinghy Found in Bay Drowning Feared

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—For the second time in three days a fishing boat has been found in Port Phillip Bay in circumstances…

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Wild Cyclone Isolates Towns in North Man Drowned, Another Missing

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Townsville and Cairns have been isolated by a terrific cyclone which struck the towns last night. One man has been drowned in flood-waters…

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Two People Killed Many Accidents At Week-end

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 4

An A.W.U. organiser and another man were killed and several people injured in accidents at the week-end…

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Man, Three Sons Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

The family tragedy occurred atl Merinda, near Bowen, where flood waters swept away a house and the following were drowned:—…

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Cairo Riots Renewed: 16 Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 2

CAIRO, Monday. -- Anti-British demonstrations were renewed today in Cairo and…

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17 Killed; 299 Injured in New Riots in Egypt

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 5

CAIRO, Tuesday.-- Seventeen persons--including two British soldiers--were killed and 299 were injured in a fresh outbreak of rioting in Alexandria yesterday. The two British soldiers were…

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Prisoners' Tram in Accident

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 18

The prison tram from which two prisoners made a spectacular escape early yesterday morning was involved in…

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Melbourne Tracks Project's Fatal Accident

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 24

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Australian Cup candidate Project was killed at Flemington this morning. He had just completed a 12-furlong…

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Melbourne Tracks Project's Fatal Accident

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 24

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Australian Cup candidate Project was killed at Flemington this morning. He had just completed a 12-furlong…

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Workman Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 11

Frederick Cornwell (76) was injured while engaged in demolition work on a house at Northmead yesterday…

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Cyclist Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 8

Charles Albert Sandell (59), of Florence Street, Westmead, suffered abrasions to the face and arm when he came into collision with a car on…

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Balmain Ferry Holed In Collision, Beached

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 9

WITH water pouring into a hole smashed in its stem in a collision with a punt, the 46ft. ferry, Regina, had to be beached near Balmain about 6 p.m. yesterday. No passengers were aboard, and when the vessel was beached the crew…

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Ferry Sinks After Collision With Tug

The Sun · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 7

A small ferry was holed and sunk in a collision with a tug near the Atlantic Union Oil Company's wharf, Balmain,…

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