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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 5

Knocked Down by Car.—Robert Crane, seven, who was staying with relatives at Islington, was knocked down by a motor car on the…

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Injured Man May Die

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 6

When Oscar Hicks (34), painter, was charged with assault at the Kogarah Court yesterday, the police said that the alleged victim John Giles, was at…

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Yesterday's Casualties Miner Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 7

Charles Donnelly, 22, of West Wallsend was struck by a fall of coal while at work in Seaham No. 1 Colliery yesterday. He received injuries to his back…

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No Statements Yet Richmond Air Fatality SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Richmond police so far have been unable to obtain statements from Air Pilot Robert Somerville and Air Craftsman Leslie Milgate, who were…

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PELL 15 FEET Miner Badly Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Shifting rails in a jig in Ayrfield No. 1 Colliery last night. Alfred Whitehouse (53), a minor, living at Bourke-street, West Maitland, lost his footing…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Finger Fractured: Norman Dodds (17), living at Lambton, an apprenticed fitter at Cardiff railway workshops, fractured the second finger of…

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Girl Seriously Injured. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 5

Eva Gentry (18), of Daredin-street, Northcote, was knocked down by a motor car at a city intersection thin afternoon, and sustained fatal injuries…

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Fatal Collision Driver for Trial Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 6

At Penrith to-day, the local Coroner concluded his inquiry into the deaths of Anna Haigh and Isobel M'Fayden, who were killed when a big service car swerved…

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Seventeen Killed Collision in Snowstorm Bellevue (Ohio)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 5

Seventeen persons, including four women, are known to have been killed and 15 others were taken to hospital, after an electric inter-urban car crashed…

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12 HURT Singleton Collision Child's Escape Singleton

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 7

T. A. Kermode, driving a large motor lorry from Singleton to Greenlands last evening, attempted to pass another lorry about four miles from…

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After the Party Fatal Motor Collision Newcastle Inquest

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 7

Just before midnight on New Year's Eve a motor cycle and a car collided at the intersection of Hanbury and Macquarie streets, Mayfield…

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Cardiff Workshop Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 5

Lake Macquarie District Ambulance had two calls to the railway workshops at Cardiff. Norman Dodds a fitter sustained a fracture of the first finger of…

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Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 6

Alfred Whitehouse, a miner employed at Ayrfield No. 1 Colliery, as admitted to Maitland Hospital, on Tuesday night, suffering with a large lacerated wound…

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Yesterday's Accidents Detonator Explodes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 5

Burney Cormer (33), Stanley-street, Bankstown, an employee of the Main Roads Board, picked up a detonator at 17-Mile Camp yesterday. The detonator…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 7

Arm Fractured.—While at work to-day, Noel Darcy, 19, of Merewether, employed as a shop boy at the Cardiff workshops, suffered a probable…

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Ballina Fatality Accidental Deaths Lismore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 7

At the conclusion of an inquest at Ballina this afternoon into the deaths of Elvin Clavan, aged six and Claude Clavan, aged eight sons of Mr. Elliott Clavan,…

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Mayfield Fatality Evidence at the Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

Mr. W. R. Pickett, Deputy District Coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, into the death of Thomas Denbigh Jones, aged…

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SUNK 40 Drowned Chinese Ship Shanghai

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

The steamer Heng An, with a cargo of coal and 60 passengers and crew, foundered outside Shanghai at 1 a.m. on Monday…

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Headgear Mistaken Planes Bomb Cavalrymen Eleven Killed; Many Injured Calcutta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 7

Three Indian officers and eight cavalrymen of the Poona Horse, an Indian Cavalry Regiment, were killed, and many wore wounded, yesterday morning, by Air…

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Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 8

David Davies butcher employed at the Kurri Kurri Co-operative Store, was thrown off a butcher's cart, in Aberdare-street, Kurri Kurri, yesterday, and was…

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