Colliery Fatality. Inquiry by the Coroner. Important Point Raised
At the Newcastle Court-house yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, inquired into the death of Thomas Fletcher Kellitt, which occurred…
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Accidents, 1924
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Fatal Struggle Injured Head Brother Sent For Trial ADELAIDE
When Port Adelaide police arrested Wader Davis a week ago they thought he was drunk, but when they got him to the cells they saw that he was ill, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lost His Eye Pierced By Pick Accident At Seaham
Robert Gibson, employed at Seaham No. 2 colliery, met with a sever accident. Gibson had only commenced on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Car Accidents
America pays for her many motor cars. It is in the form of two taxes. One is in money to the State, the other in life to the cemetery. This cutting from an…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Accidental Shooting
At an inquest on the death of Mrs. Jarrard, which occurred at the result of a bullet wound accidentally inflicted by her nine-year-old son, the evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Sawmill
Nell Shaw. 19, had a hand almost severed at tho sawmill at Brooman, the saw travelling across the palm and cutting off the thumb and three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dizzy Speed Accident In New Zealand Motor Racing Auckland
Wizard Smith had to strike his colors to even a humble Ford in the New Zealand Motor Cup speed championship at Muriwal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision Off Gravesend
The steamer Matatua, for Lyttelton, collided off Gravesend with the American steamer American Merchant. The Matatua was damaged on the port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ghastly Sea Drama Eight Crushed in Steamer Collision a Crash — Then Screams Survivors' Vivid Story Of Escape From Death LONDON
The steamer American Merchant crashed into the Matatua's forecastle, flinging the sleeping crew from their bunks. Water rushed in through a huge rent in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fall of 60 FEET Carpenter Injured
Ernest Burg employed as a carpenter and working on the new building of the Newcastle Club at the corner of King and Newcomen streets, fell…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Accident. Case From Cessnock. Sydney
Before Mr. Justice Campbell, and a jury of four, in No. 3 Jury Court, today, Alexander Anderson, a winding engineer, of Cessnock, sought to recover…
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James Tegg, of Louth Park-road, West Maitland, full while skating at the local rink last night and sprained his right wrist…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision in Fog Lights Invisible Loss of Heimdal London
The steamer Heimdal crashed into Tokufu Maru, when the night lights were invisible owing to the fog. The Heimdal capsized, and sank in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Accident. Plaintiff Awarded £163. SYDNEY
The case in which Alexander Anderson, a mining engineer, of Cessnock, claimed £500 compensation from Alfred Ditton, Leslie Hill, and Alfred Kirk, motor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District Fatality at Kearsley
Mr. Henry Hare, a well-known employee of Abermain No. 2 Colliery, was run down and killed by a locomotive, yesterday afternoon, at Smith's crossing,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Run Into Road Layer Injured
Thomas Davis, a road-layer at New Greta colliery met with a painful accident while at work. Davis's light went out, and whilst away getting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colliery Fatality
Mr. Jack Kessell, a miner, aged 39 years, living in Alexander-street, Kurri Kurri, was fatally injured by a fall of coal in the Pelaw-Main colliery early on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kurri Collision Patients Improving
Mrs. A. Chuck, of King-street, East Maitland, and William Butts, a young man residing in Kurri, both of Whom were injured at Kurri when a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fall of Stone Miner Injured Greta Accident
William Scholfield aged 41, a miner, at East Grota colliery, was working at the end of No. 2 drive at 3.20 this morning when he was buried by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wood Rebounds Fatality At Mill ROCKHAMPTON
Roy McCormack, a saw mill worker, aged 25. was killed on Saturday by an extraordinary accident at the mill at which he was employed…
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