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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Hit by Lorry Woman Badly Injured SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

While crossing Elizabeth-street near Goulburn-street to-day Ruby Rogers, aged 25, of Consett-avenue, Bondi, was knocked down by a motor lorry…

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Miner Injured Stockton Borehole Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 5

While working in the Stockton Borehole Colliery at about 10 o'clock this morning. William Anthony, junior, who lives in Third-street, Speer's…

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Foot Severed Railway Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 5

At Port Waratah locomotive, sheds to-day W. J. Thorpe, a shunter, had his left foot severed. Thorpe was engaged in shunting…

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Motor Omnibus Fatality. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 5

A woman about 25 years of age, who up to a late hour to-night had not been identified, was killed by a motor omnibus in Eddy Avenue shortly before…

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Killingworth Fatality Evidence at the Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 5

An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, concerning the death of John Evans, a miner at the…

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Trams Collide Three Persous Injured SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 5

Shortly after 9 a.m. a tram going up the hill beside Belmore Park to the Central Railway Station got out if control and ran backwards into…

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Maitland District the Abermain Fatality a Shiftman's Death. Ambulance Requisites Missing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 6

Mr. Geo. Brown, coroner, held an inquiry at the Denman Hotel, Abermain, yesterday into the cause of the death of James Peters Stewart, a shiftman, who…

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Gored by Bull Farmer Seriously Injured Awful Ordeal Wyong

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 5

When removing dairy cows from a paddock in which a bull wan running, on his dairy farm at Ourimbah. Mr. Walter W. Booker, a dairy farmer,…

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Motoring Fatality Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 7

A terrible double fatality occurred this morning on the South Road railway crossing at Hilton, when a Glenelg-bound train collided with a light motor lorry,…

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Miner Injured Coal Falls at Borehole

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 5

Thomas Parsons, 28. a single man, who lives at Pittown, Wallsend, was injured by a fall of coal in Stocklon Borcholo Colliery to-day…

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Kurri Collision Car Driver Charged Race Day Incident

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 5

At Kurri Police Court to-day, before Mr. T. Cohen, P.M., Joseph Temperley, pleaded not guilty to having driven his motor car at a speed…

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Grocer Injured Thrown from Cart

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 5

W. Hampton. IS, a grocer's assistant, was thrown out of a cart this afternoon. He received lacerations and abrasions to his arms and legs…

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Accident to a Singer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 5

When Rosina Buckman, the New Zealand operatic singer, was playing "Isolde" at the Liverpool Olympia, and was waving a torch as a signal to "Tristan," her…

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Thrown From Cart King-Street Collision

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 5

W. Joyce, 17, who resides at 99 Cleary-street, Hamilton, a baker's carter, was driving his cart along King-steet this afternoon when this…

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Colliery Smash Accident at Whitburn

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 5

A serious breakdown in the top winding gear occurred at Whitburn colliery on Wednesday. It is mated that a pin attached to…

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Lorry Fatality Deputy Coroner's Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 4

The circumstances of the death of the little boy, Thomas Tierney, who fell from a lorry in Railway-lane, Wickham, on February 10, and died the same…

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Wyong Show More Heat Trotting Accidents Wyong

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 8

A thunderstorm, which passed the district, did not lessen the [?] but a great crowd attended the [?]ond day of the show — Newcastle…

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Harbor 'Collision Ferry Steamer Damaged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 February 1925 · page 7

wharf approaching her berth at the wharf at Newcastle at 12.50 p.m., the North Steckton ferry, Etna, collided with the wharf and broke a safely…

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Record Crowd Maitland Speedway Rider Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 February 1925 · page 5

Twenty thousand people witnessed the Maitland Derby and Speedway Championship on the Maitland Speedway on Saturday night…

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Runaway Train Smash at Hawkesbury Four Men Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 February 1925 · page 5

A sensational railway smash occurred near Hawkesbury Railway Station shortly after three o'clock this morning. A heavily-laden goods-train, drawn by two…

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