Drowning at Morpeth
Stanley John Shaw, aged 20 years, a tramway employee, living in Church Place, Paddington, was drowned in the Hunter River at Morpeth, at five o'clock…
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Accidents, 1928
1,213 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 61
Motoring Accidents Many People Injured. Sydney
Several accidents in which petrol-driven vehicles were involved occurred to-day. The most serious was at Maroubra, where five persons were hurt, two seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Drowns Morpeth Holiday Fatality in Hunter River
Stanley James Shaw. 20, of Church-street, Paddington, was drowned in the Hunter-river at Morpeth yesterday. It was Maitland districts first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Accidents Parramatta-road Toll SYDNEY
According to the annual report of the Parramatta District Hospital, 300 of the patients treated in the hospital this year were victims of road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident Victim Discharged
Harry Ashman of New Lambton. who has been an inmate of Maitland Hospital since last Tuesday, when his motor cycle crashed into a fence near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident at Wangi Fell Into Baths
John Edwin Palmer, aged 14 years, living in Bull-street, Mayfield, had a narrow escape from death by drowning yesterday afternoon…
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The Maitland Ambulance Brigade had a field day yesterday, having had to respond to seventeen calls for transport and accident cases…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Parts Accident in Tunnel LONDON
An extraordinary accident happened to a train from Euneid currying 1000 passengers. The train broke in two in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Accidents
Allowing for this State's greater density of population, especially in Sydney, the number of motor accidents in New South Wales compares…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Busy Time Maitland Ambulance Work Holiday Accidents
Yesterday was one of the busiest days ever experienced by Maitland Ambulance Brigade. Thirty-six accidents and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crossing Danger Wickham's Busy Corner Many Accidents
The corner of Beaumont-street and Maitland-road, Islington, was the scene of a number of accidents yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Mayor Injured Struck by Motor Car
Crossing Vincent-street at Hall-street intersection, about 11.30 to-day for the purpose of catching a motor bus to Hellbird, Mr. Eugene O'Nell,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FELL 50 FEET Man Seriously Injured SYDNEY
A man fell from a sixth floor window in a Kent-street, Sydney, building yesterday afternoon, and crashed on to a verandah root over 50 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Generator Explodes Two Killed: 15 Injured St. Paul (Minnesota)
Two electricians were killed and fifteen injured when a turbine generator, valued at £100,000, exploded here to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland District Drowning Fatality
Mr. W. M'Lauchlin, deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the West Maitland Courthouse yesterday afternoon concerning the death of Stanley John Shaw,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crossing Smash Accident at Kahibah Train and Car Man Badly Injured
A motor car and a locomotive collided at the Kahibah railway crossing at 1.30 this afternoon. Mr. W. Kirspp, 40, contractor,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →French Fears Fatal Air Accidents Inquiry Urged Paris
Paris is alarmed at the increasing number of fatal air accidents. A committee of French Pilots have Petitioned the Government to hasten…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cycle in Flames Cessnock Accident
Just after being filled at a petrol pump in Vincent-street, Cessnock, about 7.30 p.m. yesterday, a motor cycle, owned by J. Quinn, burst into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fatality
While riding on the roof of a carriage of the North Coast mail train, on Saturday morning, George St. Chair Strickland (19), was fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Fatality Inquest
The inquest concerning the death of George Strickland, who met his death while riding on the top of a railway carriage at Telarah early on Friday…
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