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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

233 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 12

Was It Gas? Colliery Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 28 August 1919 · page 5

At the Maitland District Court to-day Marion Potter (16), Georgia Potter (13), by their friend. George Doble, claimed £500 as compensation from…

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Motor Fatality. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 5

A midnight motor accident in High-street, Bendigo, resulted in three men being killed, while two other men and a woman were injured…

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Accident on Steamer Hunter. Question in the Assembly. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 September 1919 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly to-night, Mr. Smith asked the Treasurer if it was a fact that a fireman who was badly scalded on the s.s. Hunter, coming from…

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Shunter Fatally Injured. Accident at the Steel Works

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1919 · page 6

William Henry Polack, aged 48 years, a shunter, employed at the Steel Works, and who lived with his wife end family at 27 Mitchell-street, Tighe's Hill, was…

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Chinaman Injured Maintains Silence SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 September 1919 · page 5

war Lee, a Chinese market gardener, was found in his home at Enfield yesterday in a shocking condition. There were two gaping wounds…

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Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 September 1919 · page 5

A railway accident has occurred at Saint Jory, near Toulouse. The poorness of the coal burned caused the train to lose time at its final stop. The Bordeaux…

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Motor Car Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1919 · page 5

A motor car accident occurred at Auburn to-day, resulting in serious Injuries to several persons. A soldier nomad Arthur Ransom returned from abroad…

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Steel Works Fatality. Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 September 1919 · page 7

The death of William Henry Polack, a shunter, who died at the Newcastle Hospital on Friday last, as a result of injures received at the Steel Works, was…

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The Marathon Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 September 1919 · page 7

Mr. J. Thornton, an Australian, who was proceeding to Oxford, was interviewed regarding the collision between the Aberdeen liner Marathon and the Japanese…

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Miner Killed West Wallsend Accident Wheeler Under Skip

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 September 1919 · page 4

Frank M[?]ntyre, a lad of 17, was killed in the West Wallsend Colliery at noon to-day. It is supposed that a set of skips…

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Motor Car Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1919 · page 5

While the Presidential party was returning from Portland, it was involved in an auto accident. Two motor cars collided, and two…

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Fatality at West Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1919 · page 4

A fatality occurred at the West Wallsend Colliery yesterday morning. Frank M'Intyre, aged 18 years, a wheeler, living at Holmesville, was discovered at 11…

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Soldier Drowned

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 20 September 1919 · page 5

This morning, Frederick Nicholas Norton (33), a returned soldier, living at Redhill, Brisbane, was found drowned in his bath. He had been four…

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"Injured Feelings" Hun Complaint LONDON. Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 September 1919 · page 1

Reuter's Paris correspondent says that the German Note to the Peace Conference agrees to the annulment of Article 61 of the German…

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Here and There Honeysuckle Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 September 1919 · page 5

Robert Stone (19), living at Devon-street, Wallsend, and employed as a shopboy at Honeysuckle Point blacksmiths' shop, had one of his hands…

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Maitland District. Motor Car Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 September 1919 · page 6

Mr. William Keysell, a commercial traveller, employed by R. Hall and Son, Limited, Newcastle, was admitted to Kurri Kurri Hospital yesterday afternoon in an…

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Dockyard Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 September 1919 · page 4

While working at Walsh Island this afternoon, a man was struck on the head with a 16lb sledge-hammer which glanced off a rivet. Two men from…

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Randwick Gallops Accident to Millieme SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 September 1919 · page 5

Thick fog Interfered with the semifinal gallops at Randwick this morning and timing was very difficult. The course proper, with the hurdles out…

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Shunters Death Crushed Between Couplings Woodville Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 5

A railway shunter, Alfred Henry Playford. employed at Woodville Junction. was crushed between waggon couplings there at 10 o'clock last…

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Washed Off Rocks South Head Fatality SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 October 1919 · page 5

While waiting to take snaps of the spray near Rose Gully. South Head, this morning. Victor Dutch (18), of Greenwich and Eric Merton (18), of…

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