Callous Thief Peculiar Motor Accident PERTH
The man who stole a motor car from a city parking place last night, had not proceeded more than a couple of miles, when he was involved in an…
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Accidents, 1927
1,005 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 51
Bodies Recovered Condamine Drowning TOOWOOMBA
The bodies of three more victims of the Condamine drowning tragedy. In which seven lives were lost, have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Collier Galava Founders Off Terrigal. Three Drowned, Four Missing. Survivors' Narratives
Shortly after midnight yesterday, the steam collier Galava, which left Catherine Hill Bay at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday, foundered off Terrigal Beach, and as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Crashes Passenger Killed Pilot Badly Injured Brisbane
One of the "Courier's" fleet of four aeroplanes crashed just outside Ipswich this morning, returning from Toowoomba, after delivering a load of papers, killing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Overturns Occupants Injured
While motoring along the Rutherford-road, West Maitland, into yesterday afternoon, the back wheel of a car containing David Chalmers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter-street Fatality Side Car Strikes Post
Elsie Parsons aged 18 years, living of 170 Railway-street. Glebe, met her death under tragic circumstances last night, when a motor side car outfit in which she…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wyong Show Woman Rider Injured Opening Day Wyong
Ideal weather, characterised the opening day of Wyong Agricultural Association's 21st show. The recent rains had made a great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Between Couplings Railway Guard Injured
Albert Bennett, 25, a married man living at 35 Smith-street, Mayfield, Newcastle, employed as a guard on the railway, was engaged in shunting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Fatality Guard Killed at Hornsby. Sydney
As the result of a most unusual accident close to Hornsby this morning, H. C. Corks, a railway guard, of Waverley, was so badly injured that he died on his way…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eleven Drowned No Organised Swimming
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. The New Zealand Government continues to resist the demand that the State should compel children to learn…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collision in Manly Omnibus and Two Trams. Sydney
Jammed between two trams in Pitt-water-road, Manly, this afternoon, a motor omnibus, containing fifteen passengers, was badly damaged, and three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mutual Help "Deeds Better Than Words" Injured Engineer
Some time ago Mr. Norman Pritchard, an engineer employed at the Government workshops, Honeysuckle Point, met with an accident, which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steamer Amok Sequel to Fog Collision Channel Peril Derelict's Engines Running
When a Norwegian steamer was abandoned after a collision in a fog in the English Channel, the engines started by some means…
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A head-on collision occurred between two trains at Hull, when six coaches, containing many school children and business men, telescoped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Smash Seven People Injured LONDON
Seven were injured at London Bridge station, when a Wandsworth Common train crashed into the buffers. Passengern, who were preparing to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Killed and Injured in Railway Smash Crash in Fog English Express Trains Collide Carriages Wrecked Rescuers Work Under Difficulties LONDON
Eight people were killed and twenty-seven injured when the Scarborough and Withernsea expresses collided at Hull during a fog. How the two trains came, to be on the same line is a…
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The collision between the Scarborough express and the Withernsea local express at Hull, reported yesterday, resulted in the death of eight persons, and serious…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Surfing Fatality Sydney
Hector Hodgkiss, 25, clerk, of Gladesville, was carried out by a strong undertow and drowned at North, Narrabeen to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Cycle Fatality Inquiry Adjourned
Mr. W. R. Pickett, deputy-coroner, held on inquiry at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the death of Elsie Sarah Parsons, who was injured on February…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in Hunter River Raymond Terrace Resident
Herbert Spruce, aged 63 years, an old resident of the Raymond Terrace district, was drowned in the Hunter River at Raymond Terrace yesterday afternoon…
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