Affray on a Steamer. Two Men Injured
An affray took place at about two o'clock yesterday afternoon on a steamer in the Basin at Carrington, as a result of which Walter Neale, aged 59 years, a…
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Accidents, 1918
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 14
A Broken Blood Vessel Death of F. Gregory No Possibility of Accident
The death at Newcastle Hospital on February 8 of Fred. Nicholson Gregory, a labourer employed at the Zara Street power house was the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision in Scott Street. Watering-car and Van
At 9.45 a.m. there was a collision between a tramway watering-car and one of Messrs. W. S. Bacon's delivery vans. The van was coming down…
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At the railway workshops, Honeysuckle Point, this morning, Alfred Presbury (15), living at Victoria Street, Adamstown, had his foot…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Cables Austria's Injured Innocence. War Forced Upon Her
AMSTERDAM, Friday.—The Emperor of Austria has issued a manifesto to his subjects on the occasion of the Ukraine peace, stating that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in S. AFRICA. 300 People Drowned
CAPETOWN, Sunday.— Terrific rains in the Transvaal, Natal, and Mozambique are causing many wash-aways and the collapse of bridges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dreadful Motor Smash Car Out of Control Four People Injured
A motor party driving from Sydney to Waverley met with a dreadful accident at an early hour this morning. As a result three of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Injured Arm
While William French (25), a wharf labourer, living at Waratah Road, Breadmeadow, was wheeling a barrel on the wharf this morning he fell…
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Copenhagen reports that the bodies of a number of German seamen belonging to submarines have been washed ashore at Christiania Fjord…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Scalding Accident. Infant Child Injured
Harold Barnes, aged 21 years, living with his parents at 36 Bolton Street, Newcastle, met with a serious scalding accident this morning. The…
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Sir,—In reference to case of the man Evan Phillips, who was injured at the steel works on Sunday morning. I wish to state the full facts of the case for the information…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Fatality
SYDNEY, Thursday.—George Benson, the railway guard at Penrith who was crushed between an engine and a staging at Wentworthville…
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Richard Edwards, aged 55 years, a mould-cleaner, employed at the steel works, was killed instantly yesterday morning at a quarter to six o'clock. An…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents. Fall From Bicycle
Last evening, Frank Brent (14), living at 155 Dawson Street, Cook's Hill, fell from his bicycle in the street, and dislocated his right arm. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Constable Injured
Constable Smith, of Cessnock, who was injured through a motor collision near Cessnock on Saturday night, was considerably better to-day, although…
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An Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Richard Edwards, who was killed on February 28 at the steel works at Port Waratah,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Motor Accident
The condition of Mrs. L. Jones and Miss R. Hill, of East Maitland, who met with a motor-car accident on Saturday night, and were taken to…
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While returning from Bellbird to Cessnock on Saturday night by motor car, Sergeant Jones and Constable Smith were thrown out as the result of the car…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steel Works Fatality. Coronial Inquiry
Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, held an inquiry at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the death of Richard Edwards, an employee of the steel works,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jockey Injured. Fall From a Horse
The well-known jockey, V. Green, now employed by F. Cush, at West Maitland, received a nasty fall from a Eudorous colt he was riding…
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