Colliery Accident
Jack Edwards. 29, of Mount View Road, a loco driver at Elrington colliery, suffered an injury to the fifth finger of his right hand while at work to-day…
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Baby Drowned
SYDNEY Wed.—A thirteen months-old baby, Lesley Yvonne Jones, of Spencer-st.. Five Dock, was drowned in a water-filled air…
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SYDNEY Thursday.—When he was knocked down by a train near St. Peters to-day, Jack Inglish, 49, of Forbes Creek, Enga…
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NEWCASTLE Friday.—Paddy Hyland, 65, of 6 Daniel-street, Islington, received a lacerated wound to the right hand and suffered…
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Vichy radio claims that 160 persons were killed and 300 injured in the raid by Flying Fortresses on Toulon. A number…
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Fifteen months' old Lesley Yvonne Jones was drowned on Wednesday in a partially filled air aid trench under a neighbour's house…
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SYDNEY Monday. — Leslie Smith, 13, of Surry Hills, was drowned in a canal at Lower Prospect yesterday. With three…
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A boy was held by his hair for a quarter of an hour by three of his mates in Prospect Reservoir yesterday before he sank and was drowned…
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One man was killed and two others injured at Cronulla on Saturday night when they were hit by a jeep driven by a…
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Merchant seamen crippled in the war are to get a new start in life—as farmers on a 55-acres estate near Kendal,…
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SYDNEY Tuesday—Fleeing in terror from a cow, Shirley Caines. 13, of Cambridge-road, Caoles Vale, stumbled into a waterhole…
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SYDNEY Tuesday — Walter Dale, 55, of Cathedral-street, West Maitland, received a fractured skull, fractured right arm…
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GOSFORD Tuesday—In the District Court, Judge Nield awarded Stanley Edgar Statham, engineer, of Hunter-stret, Newcastle,…
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Caught by a fall of stone while working in Bloomfield South colliery this morning, R. Thompson, who lives in Devonshire-street,…
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Lindsay Muxlow, 38, of Desmond Street, Cessnock, was kicked by a horse while going down the mine At Bellbird this morning. He was admitted to…
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CESSNOCK Tues. — Lindsay Muxlow, 38, of Desmond-st„ Cessnock, a wheeler employed at Bellbird colliery, was kicked by a…
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Running in terror from a cow, Shirley Caines, aged 13, Canley Vale stumbled into a waterhole and was drowned on Monday afternoon…
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CESSNOCK Thurs. — Frank Norris 32, Halcyon-street, Cessnock, a machine man, employed at Aberdare Extended colliery,…
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NEWCASTLE Thursday.—Two sailors, Frederick Deckert. 28, seaman, and Leland Cajnk 32, a radio man, both employed by the…
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Gunner Jack (“Bumper”) Morris, of Raymond Terrace, had an arm broken while on duty up north. He was giving instruction…
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