Records Smashed Racing at Speedway Stratton Injured
Motor cycle racing is proving one of the most popular sports introduced in Newcastle, At the Speedway on Saturday night about 18,000 people…
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Accidents, 1926
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Injured Doing Well
Messrs. J. Bleck and J. Goldie, shiftmen, who were severely burned in the colliery while at work on the day of the disaster, are still inmates of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidental Death Redhead Verdict Crowd in Court Comment by Coroner
A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner, Mr. Hibble, at Newcastle Court House this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Found Drowned Evidence at Inquest
Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the death of John William Thompson, a cook or steward, whose body…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rapid Progress Clearing Flooded Mine Lily Rose Fatality
Considerable progress is being made pumping out Lily Rose colliery, at Wallsend, with the object of recovering the body of Edwin Cox, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Redhead Explosion Coroner's Verdict Accidental Death
Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, delivered his verdict yesterday in connection with the deaths of W. W. Riley, N. G. Berriman, T. Adams, J. Lonsdale, and H…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Out of Sidecar Maitland Collision
George Regan, of Campbell's Hill West Maitland was riding in the sidecar of a motor cycle ridden by E. Renshaw, of Mayfield, down…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Severe Lacerations Accident at Newtown SYDNEY
A motor car driven by Archibald Powter, of Frenehman's-road, Randwick, collided with an electric tramway post in King-street, near…
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When the electric tram, due at Wallsend depot from Newcastle at 6.50 o'clock last evening, was within a few yards of the depot, a steam motor from the West…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheeler Injured
Andrew Blackle, a wheeler, living at Carrington-street, West Wallsend, was pushing some empty skips along in Seaham No. 2 colliery, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Plane Fatality Point Cook Cadet Killed MELBOURNE
Cadet Albert F. Greenwood, a University student, undergoing training at Point Cook Flying School, was killed at 10.30 a.m. to-day. He was flying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vessels Collide 11 People Drowned Port of Spain (Trinidad)
Eleven persons were drowned when the Government steamer Naparima, foundered after a collision with the Lumport-Holt liner Vandyck, In the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schoolboy Injured
Charles Jones. 8, living at Louth Purk-rood, Went Maitland, was playing at the Marist Brothers' School yesterday. When he fell heavily,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abermain Drowning Fatality
Irene Lee, aged 16 years, daughter of Mrs. J. Bell, of Charles-street, Abermain, was drowned in a waterhole yesterday afternoon at the "Old Orchard,"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Widow's Thanks Lily Rose Fatality Recovery of Body
"Thank God; and you, men, for all you have done for me," was the expression of gratitude of the widow as the body of her husband,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Had Injured Hand Collins at Disadvantage Johnson Praised
Collins's defeat by Len Johnson was by no means surprising to those who knew of the injury to Collins's hand, which occurred before he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Accidents Two Persons Killed Sydney
In a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle, with side car attached, in Parramatta-road, near Five Dock, last night, Frank Ferris, of Stan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sulky Accidents
A man named Jones, of 95 Broadmeadow-road, Broameadow, was thrown from a milky in Maitland-road. near Iron Bark Hill, this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Car Fatality Accident at Wickham
Railway-street, Wickham, was the scene of a motor car accident last night, in which Mr. George Vincent Steele, aged 34 years, a baker, who lived at No. 5…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jockeys Injured Training Accidents Armillary Destroyed Sydney
Two jockeys were injured in training accidents on suburban courses this morning. Armillary swerved at Canterbury Park, and In trying to get…
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