Horses Collide Racecourse Accident Baker Injured
When the homes engaged in the Pace Welter at Newcastle races were leaving the parade ground for their preliminaries, Papingo and Keniltry…
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Accidents, 1926
953 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 48
Sewer Gas Explodes Yarmouth Accident LONDON, November 25
An explosion, thought to have been caused by an accumulation of sewer gus, blew off the heavy cover of an underground electricity "transformer"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at 87 Entente's Birth Recalled Loubet Injured London
A message from Paris reports that ex-President Emile Loubet, aged 87, fell, breaking his leg. He was President of France…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowned in Baths Uncle's Tragic Discovery TOOWOOMBA
Les, Eggleton, used 21, was drowned in the city baths on Now Year's Day in tragic circumstances. With his uncle and brother he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents in Sydney Sydney
Falling over a cliff at the end of Brighton Boulevard, Bondi, to-day, Elsie May Curtis, 25, of Surry Hills, was killed. The body was found at the foot of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowned in Brisbane River. Brisbane
A drowning accident, involving the loss of either two or three lives, occurred yesterday afternoon practically underneath Victoria Bridge. Two young lads hired a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →1000 People Drowned Awful Flood Disaster in Roumania Factories Swept Away Many Towns Under Water, in West of England
A thousand people were drowned in Roumania by sudden, floods sweeping away factories and bridges. Loss of life and privation are reported from Great Britain, France, Holland and Belgium, as the result of widespread floods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents in Sydney Sydney
Helen Bullock, aged 38, of Alexandria, fell 30 feet over the cliffs near Tamarama Beach yesterday morning, and suffered injuries to the spine. She was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plucky Youth Helping Drowning Pal SYDNEY
William Basil Richard Morris, of Darlinghurst. 15 years of age, was complimented by the City Coroner for his persistent attempts to rescue a pal,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Injured Level Crossing Smash MELBOURNE
A motor car and a rail motor train collided at a level crossing on the Point Nepean-road, near Mornington, and two men who were in the car…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Only Four Murders More Motor Accidents SYDNEY
The Sydney Coroner's report for 1925 shown that there were only four canes of murder as against 11 in 1924. Deaths from motor accidents,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steelworkers Injured
Cecil Edwards, 17, living at Lang-ford-street, Newcastle, a crane cleaner at the Steel Works, had the palm of his left hand badly crushed while at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Drowned COOTAMUNDRA
When a cloud burst struck Junce last night hundreds of cattle, were drowned, hundreds of miles of fencing were carried away, and houses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Son Stop-press Six Injured
Six people were injured when a motor car at Trundle, got out of control and racing down a hill overturned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Bellevue Hotel Young Woman Injured
A fire was discovered about a quarter to two o'clock yesterday morning in the Bellevue Hotel, at the corner of Hunter and Hannell streets, Wickham, and caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Engine Driver Injured
A severely crushed right arm was the sequel to Claude Bremmell, 32, locomotive driver, catching it in the slide of an engine to-day at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fall From Cycle Steel-worker Injured Maitland Accident
Horace Clement, aged 23, residing at 70 Church-street, West MAitland, and employed at the steel works, Newcastle, was riding a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hexham Fatality Evidence at Inquest
At the Newcastle Court-house yesterday Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner inquired into the death of Alfred Joseph Mekenass, aged 32 years, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Bathing Story of Drowning Cessnock Inquest
Mr. George Brown, district coroner, hold an inquest at the Cessnock court-house this morning into the circumstances surrounding the death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cripple Drowned Fall Into a Pond
James Johnson, aged five, living with his parents in Mulbring-street, Kurri, was found drowned in a duck pond at the back of his home to-day…
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