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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

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Five Injured 'Bus Turns Over Mayfield Mishap

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 5

Five men employed at Rylands works received minor injuries through a motor bus oveturning at Mayfield this morning…

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Motor Omnibus Smash Eight People Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 5

Swerving to avoid a tram at Edgecliff to-night, a large motor omnibus crashed into a telegraph pole, and was smashed to pieces. Eight persons were injured,…

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Miner Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 8

While working in Seaham No. 2 colliery this moraine, George Bissett was struck on the head by a piece of falling coal, which caused a large…

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Injured Men Convalescent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 2

Mr. Bleck, who was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital six weeks ago, following his injuries on the occasion of the explosion in the colliery, will…

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Omnibus Capsizes Five Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 7

A motor omnibus laden with employees at Messrs. Rylands' works, who were proceeding to their employment, overturned yesterday morning on a low…

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Foot Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 5

Mavis Southon. aged 7. living with her parents at Sandgate. had her foot fractured through a slip-rail falling across her leg…

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Crossing Collision Furniture Scattered SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 5

When a motor lorry was struck by a train on the level-crossing at School-field early this morning a man named Nutson a carrier, was seriously…

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Knocked Down Girl Badly Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 2

Dorothy Wheeler, aged 14, living with her parents at Cardiff, was over by a bicycle in Hunter-street this monitor, and received injuries to…

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Fatality at Sports Veteran Official Dead SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 March 1926 · page 5

Mr. D. A. McKenzie, aged 61, time-keeper of the New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association, who was knocked down while crossing the…

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Harbor Collision S.S. Gwydir and Ferry Passenger Escape

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 March 1926 · page 6

Early moraine ferry passengers were given a bad fright when the Hunter River S.S. Company's steamer Gwydir, and the ferry steamer…

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Court in Hospital Injured Man's Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 March 1926 · page 5

One of the wards at Newcastle Hospital was transformed into a court of law this morning, when Mr. Shropshire and several other officials waited…

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Caught Between Skips Kearsley Miner Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 March 1926 · page 6

Frederick Giffin, 44, residing Kearaley, and employed as a miner at Abermain No. 2 colliery, was caught between two skips while at…

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Many Injured Warburton Menaced by Fire Laborers Trapped Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 March 1926 · page 5

A change of wind from the north to the south, accompanied by light rain, had the effect of checking the bush fires which yesterday threatened…

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Train Fatality at Wyong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1926 · page 5

When the train that left Newcastle yesterday at 11 o'clock a.m., was passing through Wyong, at, 12.41 p.m., Albert Woods, who lived in Stokes-lane, Bulli,…

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Harbour Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 6

When the Melbourne S.S. Company's steamer Woolgar was proceeding up the harbour after arriving from Sydney at 4.30 o'clock yesterday morning, she…

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Man Drowned Fatality at Wangi Floating at Wharf Left Toronto in Launch

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 5

The body of an elderly man, believed to be Dan Morrison, was found floating near the Lake View wharf at Wangi at mid-day…

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Boy Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 4

Stanley Stanard, 14, of King's-road, Adamstown, had his foot crushed through a cart passing over it in Case-street, Adamstown, this morning…

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Wangi Fatality Post-Mortem Examination

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 8

No definite information has yet been received as to how Dan Morrison, whose body was recovered yesterday from the water near Lake…

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Drowned While Bathing KEMPSEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 2

While Nurse Odell, daughter of Mr. Sam Odell, was bathing with some others from a beach near South West Rocks, she was swept out to sea and…

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Drowned at Wangi Old Man's End

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 5

The body of an elderly man, Daniel Morrison, who was camped at Wangi, was found in Lake Macquarie, near Lake View wharf, Wangi, yesterday morning…

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