Crashed to Death State Mine Fatality LITHGOW
A fatality occurred at the State coal mine this morning, the victim being John Baker, aged about 20. He was employed on the top of…
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Accidents, 1926
953 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 48
Hit by Pick Miner Badly Injured Skull Fractured
A serious accident was reported from Lambton B mine this afternoon. when Thomas Gale, 26, blacksmith's striker received a probable fracture…
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One of the men at the Glen Iris brick works suddenly heard a cry from a follow-worker, Albert Skelton, 26. When he looked round he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Machines Capsize Motor Cyclists Injured Road Mishap. Melbourne
Four men were knocked unconscious when one motor cycle capsized through trying to dodge another, which had capsized on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Car Three Men Injured Midnight Crash Sydney
Three men were badly hurt, and a motor car wrecked in Military-road Mosman, just before midnight last nigh. when a car crashed into a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Track Mishaps Horse and Rider Injured Sydney Collisions Sydney
Red Gauntist, while going at halfpace on the tar track at Randwick this morning, ran into another horse, and both fell, but neither was hurt…
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A five-year-old boy, named James Johnson, living with his parents in Mulbring-street, Kurri Kurri, was drowned in a waterhole at the rear of his home…
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Mr. George Brown, the coroner, held an inquest at the Cessnock Court-house yesterday into the death of William Raymond Griffiths, aged seven years…
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There is no improvement in the condition of Horace Clements, 23, who was dmitted to the Maitland Hospital yesterday suffering from a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trod on His Hand Sister's Tragic Discovery Kurri Drowning Case
"While I was searching in the pond for my brother I trod on his hand. I dragged the body to the bank, but it slipped back…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Persian Mystery Was Ruler Injured? LONDON
Mystery surrounds the fate of the now Shah of Persia, Reza Khan, who was reported to have had both legs blown off by the explosion of a bomb…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FELL 40 FEET Mr. A. Burke Injured Broken Limbs Crash from Window
Hearing groans a few minutes after one o'clock this morning. Mr. C. H. Barnett, who lives in Church-street, Newcastle, went to…
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An inquest was held at the Kurri Kurri Courthouse yesterday, by Mr. Geo. Brown, coroner, concerning the death of James Johnstone, aged four years and ten…
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Arthur Peel, employed at Richmond Main Colliery, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon, was while alighting off which conveys the Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rescued From Drowning Woman and Three Children Sydney
But for the prompt and plucky action of Harry Read, a steward on the steamer Balranald, a woman and three children would have been drowned in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fell 40 Feet Mr. A. A. Burke Injured
Mr. A. A. Burke, solicitor, of Newcastle, and a director of the firm of Messrs. J. Burke and Sons, was found lying badly injured in the yard at the rear of his room,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Injured Caught Between Lorries
Bruce Murray, aged seven, living with his parents at 8 Bibby-street, Hamilton, was caught between two lorries to-day, receiving serious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents in Sydney Sydney
Alexander Beardsley, who lived in Darlinghurst, a fireman on the coaster Belbowrie, was lost overboard during a trip from Port Kembla to Sydney to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision of Steamers
The Empress of Asia to-day collided with the coaster Tungshing in the river, near Shanghai. The Tungshing broke in half, and sank in four and a half minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Bus Drivers' Warned Collision at Boolaroo
A collision between two licensed motor 'buses at Roolaroo last Sunday was dealt with yesterday by the Lake Macquarie Shire Council, which…
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