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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

1,213 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 61

S.O.S. Collision in Channel Help Signals London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 1

Captain Friedman, commander of the Russian cadet ship Tovarisch, which collided with the Italian steamer Alcantara, states…

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Channel Collision Sinking of Alcantara Story of Sole Survivor (Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 5

Mystery surrounds the collision in the Channel between the Russian training barque Tovaritsch and the Italian steamer Alcantaa, which resulted in…

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'Planes Collide Pilot Killed: Two Injured El Paso (Texas)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 1

Pilot Joe Green was killed and two others were injured when two 'planes collided at an altitude of 1000 feet at noon to-day…

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Knocked From Bicycle Broadmeadow Motor Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 March 1928 · page 4

Reginald Huxham, aged 27 years, a boiler-fireman, employed at the Steel Works, and living in Wilkinson-street, Mayfield, was injured when a motor car…

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Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 8

The dead body of a young man was found near the railway rails, close to Thornton railway station, before midday yesterday. He appeared to have been…

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Agent Drowned Car Backed Into River WENTWORTH

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 8

On his first run to pooncarie, after having been appointed agent for a motor firm. Daniel Ford, aged 42, was driving up a steep bank after…

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Accident at Weston

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 5

Joseph Wilkes, Junior, of Sixth-street, Weston, was riding a horse at the Homestead Football Ground, Western, yesterday afternoon, when it…

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Colliery Accident 13 Killed: 35 Injured LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 1

The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" telegraphs that 20 miners of the Ewald (Ricklingbausen) Colliery were ascending in a cage at the end…

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Japanese Air Fatality Tokio

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 5

Notwithstanding the fatality in the Trans-Pacific flight, the sponsors express their determination to continue the preparations scheduled…

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Fell Into Harbor American Drowned Coroner's Verdict

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 6

An inquest concerning the death of Clifford Norman Starkey, whose body was found flouting in the harbor on February 21. was "Old at Newcastle…

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Child's Escape Accident at Mayfield

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 7

Lorna Dougias, 5, of 11 Dora-street, Mayfield, strayed from her home and crossed Maitland-road behind a stationary tram…

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Dangerous Corner Accident at Maitland

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 7

1 Captain Lapage, of the East Maitland Salvation Army Corps, won insured when his motor cycle came into collision with a car at one of West…

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Found Drowned Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 3

An inquest was held by Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, at the Newcastle Court House on Saturday morning, concerning the death of Clifford Norman…

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Fatal Collision Police Car Involved. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

James Richard Maloney (41), of Ryde, was killed, and Reginald Golding (35), of Camperdown, bad his right thigh fractured when a motor cycle collided with…

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Two Injured Car Overturns on Hill Shaft Breaks

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 7

Two people were injured, and five others, including three children, had narrow escapes, when an out-of-control car slid…

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Maitland District Motor Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 6

Miss Edna Fletcher, of Turner-street, West Maitland, who was injured in a motor cycle occident on Saturday morning in Newcastle-street, East Maitland, is…

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Accident at Toronto Motor Car Overturns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

Stanley Green, aged 37 years, of Brooks-street, Wallsend, sustained a probable fracture of the pelvis, and his wife suffered from severe shock, when a crowded…

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Accidents in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

At a result of his motor cycle crashing into an electric light standard in Shepherd-street, Paddington, to-day, Phillip Pennington, 20, living at Myrtle-street,…

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Motor Cycle Fatality Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 5

Two motor cycles, with side cars attached collided head on, with tremendous force at the top of a hill in Preston late this evening…

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Maitland District Thornton Railway Fatality Victim Not Identified

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 5

Mr. D. W. Reed, Coroner, held an inquiry at the West Maitland Court House, yesterday afternoon, into the death of the unknown man, whose body was found…

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