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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Coal in Eye Shot-firer Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 May 1922 · page 7

On Friday, "Jack" McAteer, formerly under-manager at East Greta colliery, and now employed as a shotfirer at Stanford Merthyr, was tiring…

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Maitland Picnickers' Escape Motor-Lorry Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 May 1922 · page 5

At about 10 o'clock yesterday morning a picnic party, en route to Paterson from Cessnock, met with a rather exciting experience on the…

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Timber Mill Fatality Perth

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 May 1922 · page 5

The evidence at Yarloop at the inquest into the death of James Ashley, who was killed at the Nanga Brook timber mill, showed that the man met a shocking…

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Boolaroo Fatality. Evidence at Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1922 · page 5

Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, held an inquest at Wallsend Courthouse yesterday into the death of Prank Hughes, which occurred in Wallsend Hospital on…

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Roughrider Injured Casino

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 May 1922 · page 5

During the progress of Skuthorpe buck-jumping show at Casino, Laurie Benn, one of the best known local roughriders, was thrown by an outlaw, and sustanied…

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Horse on Motor Sensational Bolt Two Men Injured SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 May 1922 · page 6

Two horses attached to a lorry bolted in Parramatta-road, Summer Hill, last night. One of the wheels of the lorry struck a tree on the side…

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Remarkable Photograph of an Extraordinary Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 May 1922 · page 8

In an automobile race at Atlantic City a car failed to round a corner, and ran over the barrier of sandbags placed at this dangerous spot. Although the car looked like running late a building and being smashed. It escaped injury, and the driver was unhurt…

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Collision at Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 7

A telegram from San Francisco reports that the steamers Welsh Prince and lowan collided off the cast coast of Washington State…

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Drowned Fishing

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 6

A brace wife has been highly commended by the Chertsey cor[?] England. At the inquest on George W. Gough…

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Fishermen Drowned Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 5

With only a mast showing in from is to 20 feet of water the cutter, Trio was found nine miles north of Tickera, and one and a-half miles from the shore. The…

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Collision Runaway Train Queensland Derailment ROCKHAMPTON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 5

A serious railway accident, in which a runaway goods train collided with an oncoming mixed train, occurred near Edungaiba. on the main central…

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Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 June 1922 · page 5

Mr. John Rees, M.P., fell from the Scotch express at Chesterfield, and died in hospital. At the inquest the coroner returned a…

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Bullock Injured French Oaks Fall at Chantilly LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 June 1922 · page 1

A message from Paris states that the race for the Grand Prix de Deane the so called French oaks, at Chantilly, was marred by an accident to…

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Under a Tram Accident To Girl

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 June 1922 · page 5

A girl named Gladys Burney (10), of Balfour, Anzac-parade, Kensington, yesterday was [?] beneath one of the wheels of a tramear for a…

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Found Drowned

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 June 1922 · page 4

Mrs. Elizabeth Naven was found drowned in the Wollondilly River, at Goulburn. She had been in ill-health for some time…

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Motor Car Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1922 · page 7

Messrs. Marcus Clark and Co. Ltd., and James D. Gow were the parties in cross actions, in which each claimed from the other damages with respect to a collision…

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Whose Fault ? 'Bus Collision Claim for Damages

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 June 1922 · page 6

Who was to blame for a collision between the two motor 'buses, Excelsior and Olympia, in Maitland-road last November?…

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Hat Trick Jockeys' Success Bright Plume Injured. SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 June 1922 · page 5

The V.R.C Grand National Hurdle Race candidate, Bright Pl[?]me, which won the Mariborough Hurdle in such good style on Monday, is reported to…

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Anniversary Day Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 7

Arising out of the collision between a motor lorry and a sulky, at Young Wallsend, on Anniversary Day, two claims for damages were made against Charles and…

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"Grossly Unfair" Relief Distribution Shopkeepers Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 5

The injury done to many shopkeeper by an arbitary system of relief distribution was pointed out by Mr. Gi[?]hop, town clerk, to the…

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