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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Fall From Train Accident at Toronto

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 August 1921 · page 5

James Durkin, a middle-aged man, a miner, living in Waratah-street, Kurri, was admitted to Newcastle Hospital last night, in consequence of…

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Porter Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 September 1921 · page 6

At West Maitland goods sheds yesterday Percival Moore, a goods porter was badly injured about the head, through being struck by a truck. He…

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Tragic Mistake Shunter Who Forgot Newcastle Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 September 1921 · page 6

The different class of buffers on two railway sleeping carriages was responsible for the death at the Newcastle station on August 24 of a shunter…

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Struck by Mould Chest Crushed Steel Work Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 September 1921 · page 5

Mr. G. T. Edwards, deputy coroner, this afternoon inquired into the death at the Stoel Works on Monday of Ernest james Date, a laborer…

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Shunting Fatality. Forgot the Buffers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 7

The death of William Henry Burke, who died at the Newcastle Hospital on August 25 through injuries received through his leg being crushed between two carriages at the…

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Motor Cycling Fatality. Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 5

An inquest was held by Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday morning, into the death of Harry Hammont Winton, who was killed by a tall…

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Steelworker's Death. Due to Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 7

Sitting at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, Mr. G. T. Edwards, deputy coroner, inquired into the death of Ernest William Date, aged 40 years, who was killed at the steel…

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Scone Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 6

At an inquiry held on Wednesday, at Scone, into the circumstances attending the death of Driver Charles William Fleming, killed at Scone, in a railway…

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Run Over by Tram West Wallsend Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 5

An inquest into the death of William Wakeman, who was run over by a tram at West Wallsend on Monday night was held at West Wallsend…

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Mistaken for Wallaby Boy Shot by Mate "A Sheer Accident" ROCKHAMPTON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 September 1921 · page 5

Because be was mistaken for a wallaby while our shooting in Berserker Mountains, Thomas Plapps, aged 13, is now in hospital, with…

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Highway Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 September 1921 · page 8

It is interesting to note that in reply to a question in the House of Commons, Sir Erin Geddes, Minister of Transport, stated that he had no information to show that an…

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Fettler Injured Fall at Sandgate

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 September 1921 · page 5

Richard Blake (33), a married man, sustained concussion of the brain as the result of a fall at Sandgate today…

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Toronto Train Fatality. Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1921 · page 10

An inquest was held by Mr. C. Hibble yesterday afternoon, at the Newcastle Courthouse, concerning the death of James Durkin, who was fatally injured at…

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Bus Accident Collision With Car

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 September 1921 · page 6

The brakes of a motor 'bus failed to act when the vehicle was climbing the hill at Nelson-street, Wallsend, this afternoon, while taking people to…

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Death From Burns. Steel Works Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1921 · page 10

An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, into the death of George Smart, an employee of the steel works, who died in the Newcastle…

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Drowned Together Mystery of the Thames

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 September 1921 · page 3

A man and a woman have been found dead, with their hands tied to-gether, by the banks of the Thames at Richmond, London…

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Fall From Scaffold Riveter's Boy Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 September 1921 · page 5

George Murray, a rivetter's boy of Vulcan-street, Carrington, fell the morning from a Scaffolding on the new Manly ferry which is being built at…

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Peculiar Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 September 1921 · page 3

Recently a little girl of there, Mary Helen McHugh, was playing with her brother, Hugh Basil McHugh, on a vacant piece of land alongside their…

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Stomach Injured Accident at Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 September 1921 · page 6

Timothy Blanch, 16, of Adamstown, a clipper at the Burwood Extended colliery, fell sixteen feet down some steps at the mine this morning, and…

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Empire Air Service Australian Attitude R38 Accident a Spur LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 September 1921 · page 1

Admiral Mark Kerr, in a letter to "The Times," says that he understands that Australia's decision regarding the fate of airships will be…

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