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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

637 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 32

Boy Knocked Down Motor Accident Car Lights Fail

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 5

When Frank Percy Morrison, of Brown-street, Newcastle, was driving his motor car through Thornton, from Maitland to Newcastle, last night, the lights on the…

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Baby Drowned Fell into Drain Byron Bay

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 3

The 15 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Byron Bay, was washed away and drowned in Bilongel drain, which passes the buck of their…

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Queer Accident Race Incident MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 5

A rather strange accident occurred At Moonee Valley yesterday. When the field was pulling up after the two-year-old race had been run,…

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Fall of Stone Boolaroo Man Injured Mine Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 February 1923 · page 7

Robert Pearson, of Boolaroo, an employee at Stockton Borehole colliery, was injured this morning by a fall of stone…

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The Retford Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1923 · page 7

The coroner's jury returned a verdict regarding the Flying Scotsman collision at Retford that it was due to the driver of the express, owing to the fog,…

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Drowned in a Tank

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 4

James Charles Vial, aged three years and seven months, son of Mr. Clarence J. Vial, of High-street, Wallsend, was drowned in an underground tank at his…

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Maitland District. Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 6

Mr. James Newman, a well-known resident of Hebburn, was seriously injured in a railway accident near the Hebburn Colliery crossing, Weston, at…

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Knocked Into Water Accident at The Dyke

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 1

While the steamer, Werribee, was preparing to move from a crane at the Dyke yesterday a man, who was sitting on the edge of the wharf…

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Drowned in Baths Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 4

Peculiar circumstances attended death by drowning at Williamstown baths of Albert Woolley. aged 12½. of Maidstone. Woolley, with a number…

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Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 6

While bathing in the river in the Horseshoe Bend on Saturday afternoon. Frank Gamlin, aged eleven years, was drowned. With a number of other boys…

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Drowned in Hunter

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 5

Frank Gamlin, aged 11, was drowned while bathing in the Hunter River on Saturday. The body was recovered within a quarter of an hour, but all…

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Drowned at Sea Late W. G. KEW Niagara Man Lost

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 4

Mrs. Kew, of Gipp-street, Carrington, west to Sydney last week regarding the death of her husband, Mr. George William Kew, 36 years of age, who was…

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Drowning Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 6

Mr. F. W. C. Crane, the coroner, held inquest at the West Maitland Court-house yesterday afternoon concerning the death of the boy Frank Gamlin, who was…

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Maitland District. the Weston Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 6

At the Criterion Hotel, Weston, yesterday, Mr. G. Brown, the district coroner, resumed the inquiry before a jury into the death of James Newman,…

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Armed Alliance Injured May Finish Racing MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 5

At Caulfield this morning Armed Alliance broke a bone. He was taken from the course in a bad way. It will probably end his racing career…

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Hamilton Mayor Suffering From Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 8

The Mayor of Hamilton (Alderman Myers), who met with an accident last week, is still confined to his home, and it will be some time before he…

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Avoiding Accidents "Safety First" Hints

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 8

With the over-increasing powers of speed and acceleration of which cars are possessed nowadays and the unchanging uncertainty in the movements of…

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Tunnel Collapses Buried Under Stone Sewerage Works Fatality SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1923 · page 5

Three hundred feet below the earth's surface one man was killed, and another slightly injured by a heavy fall of earth and rock at…

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Floods in France Cattle Drowned Boats for Rescue Work LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 1

"The Times" Paris correspondent states that serious floods which have occurred in France are causing anxiety amongst the populace…

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Woman Killed Muswellbrook Accident MUSWELLBROOK

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 5

An Occident on the Wybong road resulted in the death of Mrs. Uriah West. aged 32. Mr. West. with his wife and two…

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