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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

44 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 3 of 3

Port Kembla News. Painful Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 2

Ernest Carrington, an employee in the rolling works at the M.M., had his hand and foot badly burned with a piece of red hot copper wire during…

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Surf Fatality at Scarborough

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 7

On Wednesday Mr. James Kirby, Deputy Coroner, held an inquiry as to the death of Mary Burrows, in the surf, on Monday…

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Aeroplane Fatality

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 December 1919 · page 3

The Moruya "Examiner" state that, the parents of the late Lieut. L. Ross, who was killed a few hours after commencing his attempted flight…

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Sad Fatality

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 December 1919 · page 4

The sympathy of the whele community goes out to Alderman and Mrs. Vidal, of Wollongong, in tho great sorrow which has come upon them. On…

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