Injured During Boring Operations
Hurt while boring for coal at Glendonbrook. Mr. W. McBain. of Albert Street. singleton. suffered severe lacerations to the…
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Passenger Trains Collide in Dense Fog Four Persons Killed and Fifty Injured
LONDON, December 1. —At least four persons were Killed and about 50 injured, many seriously, when two passenger trains collided in dense fog on a 2000ft. high viaduct at Stockport, Cheshire, last night…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday.— William Crumb, 36. of Kitchener, a miner, employed at Aberdare Central colliery, was caught by a…
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At Wednesday's inquest into the death, on 27th November, of Helen Mary Hogan, the Coroner, Mr. R. Clendinning, returned a finding of…
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When Henry Francis Stokes, 7, of Greta, disappeared in Anvil Creek, Greta. while trying to recover a playmate's fishing rod an eight-year-old…
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A sad drowning fatality occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hogan, "Anglevale," Wybong, on…
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MUSWELLBROOK: A drowning fatality occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hogan, “Anglevale,” Wybong, resulting…
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George Whiting, 23, of Greta-street, Aberdare, shunter at Eirington colliery, was crushed between skins to-day, sustaining injuries to the pelvis…
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The Coroner, Mr. R. Clendinning, J.P., at the inquest into the death of Frederick George watt Shaw, returned a finding that Shaw had died on…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. — Three nurses from the Repatriation Hospital, Concord, were among six persons admitted to Western…
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SYDNEY, Saturday—Only 10 of 50 passengers escaped injury when a crowded bus crashed headlong into a stormwater channel at Granville about 4.35 p.m. yesterday. The injured, nearly all of whom were suffering severely…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.— After saving two women from drowning, Ronald Leo Tschirpig, 27, welder, of Loxton, collapsed and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—There were two deaths in New South Wales from road accidents at the week-end end four in Victoria, while a man was also killed when a plug of gelignite exploded as he was about to throw it into the river…
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Six-year-old Robin Welbourne, 16 James-street, Horseshoe Bend, West Maitland, was struck by a car opposite the High and…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A youth, who was accidentally shot by his girl friend at Liverpool yesterday, is in a critical condition in the…
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At Scone Court, Mr. J. B. Hodgson, SM, heard a case in which it was alleged that a truck being driven by William Roy Thompson, plumber, of…
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CAIRO, Dec. 7.—Eight policemen were Injured by a grenade in the Cairo students’ demonstration, says an official communique…
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Several stitches had to be inserted in ,the thumb of Mrs. Hartley, of Stephen-street. Cessnock, when she; lacerated it badly while opening a tin…
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MILLER’S FOREST: Mr. F. Bambach, of Ballckera, was the victim of an accident last week. He was rounding-up the cows…
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CESSNOCK, Wed. — Albert Wakeman, 59, of Cessnock, was killed when he was struck by a taxi cab In Allandale-road,…
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