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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

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Double Fatality at Kangaroo Valley. Two Men Struck by Lightning and Killed. Three Others Affected by Shock

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 9

During the thunderstorm on Monday afternoon, a gang of men at work on the telegraph line at Kangaroo Valley had a most unfortunate experience. The…

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Accident at Shellharbour

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last a collision took place on the Shellharbour road between the service ear running between Shellharbour and the railway…

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Accident at Dapto

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 12

While Messrs. J. Pettigrew, H. Gillon and L. Carroll, of Dapto, were coining home on Saturday last in a sulky from Wongawilli, the britchen…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 11

A serious accident occured at Cobblers' Hill, on the Main S.C. Road on Wednesday about midnight, as the result of which two Dapto residents were…

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Tennis Accident

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 17

Whilst playing tennis last week Mr Hawkes, of Cessnock, who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wickham, Bourke Street, slipped and broke…

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Riding Accident. at Albion Park

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 11

Miss James, of Shellharbour, daughter of the Mayor of the Shellharbour Municipality, was returning on horseback from a visit to her brother's farm,…

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Accident at Thirroul

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 4

Master Albert Spike, 13 years of age, son of Mrs. Spike, Redman Avenue, Thirroul, received a knock on an eye while chopping wood the other day…

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Peculiar Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 11

Master Sid Dawes, of Albion Park, was in O'German's slaughter yards on Friday last, watching a dead beast being skinned. He was standing very…

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Driving Accident. at Albion Park

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 3

Miss Marion Moles, of Albion Park, was injured whilst driving home from a concert last Saturday night. The covered buggy, in which Miss Moles…

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M.m. Co. Sick and Accident Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 13

The annual general meeting of members of the Port Kembla Sick and Accident Fund was held on the 8th inst., in the dining hall at the Works. The…

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Railway Fatality at Thirroul. Well-known Cricketer Killed, Thirroul Club Postpones Matches

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 February 1926 · page 13

It came as a great shock to residents of Thirroul this morning, and especially members of the Thirroul Cricket Club, when it was…

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Painful Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 February 1926 · page 4

Mr. C. Dawson, of the Wollongong Ice Works, met with a very painful accident one day this weak. He was engaged with some ice cream tubs and…

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Unfortunate Accident

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 24 February 1926 · page 2

Mrs James O'Gorman last Thursday went with a party of friends to the McQuarie Pass, blackberrying, when unfortunately she tripped…

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Shunting Fatality

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 23

T[?]e Deputy Coroner, Mr. James Kirby, on Monday held an inquiry as to the death of John Luker Rooke at the railway marshalling yard…

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Shunting Fatality. at Thirroul

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 7

At the Court House, Bulli, on Monday last, the Deputy Coroner (Mr. Kirby) held an inquiry into the cause of the death of shunter John Luker Rooke,…

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Accidents. at Mount Kembla Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 2

Two serious accidents occurred at the Mt. Kembla mine last weok. J. Hoolahan, a shiftman, was struck on the head by an iron rail which,…

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Driving Accident. at Coledale

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 3

Mrs. Brindley, of Coledale, met with a nasty accident on Coledale Heights on Saturday last. Accompanied by a little boy, she was driving a horse and…

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Cars in Collision

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 2

Two cars came into collision on Cliff Road on Sunday morning, as a result of which Miss Gordon, of Normandy Flats, Coogee, had two ribs…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning. at the Wollongong Baths

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 1

On Sunday last about 12.30 p.m., Frank Tinozzo, a miner employed at Mt. Pleasant mine, was bathing in the Wollongong Men's Baths, when he got…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 8

On Thursday of last week Charles O'Donnell, employed in connection with the Postal Department, was at work at a manhole in connection with the…

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