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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

1,627 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 82

Cessnock Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 7

Leslie Linnertson, 24, of Cambage-street, Bellbird, a wheeler employed at Bellbird Colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital yesterday with injuries to both legs…

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Injured by Fly Spray

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 4

Mrs. O'Brien, 38, of 18 Dumaresq-street, Cook's Hill, was spraying a fly exterminating preparation about her room yesterday and the bottle slipped, falling upon…

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Denis Boy Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 9

While running in a paddock at Doonside yesterday, the Caulfield Cup winner, Denis Boy, fell and broke a bone in his leg. The injured leg was placed in splints and the…

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Miner Injured Crushed by Fall of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 4

David MacDougall, aged 29, employed at the Wallarah colliery as a machinist, and living at Belmont, sustained a compound fracture of the skull while at work in the…

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Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 7

Mrs. Bridget Smith, 77, of Bourke-street, West Maitland, slipped and fell at her home yesterday, and her head struck a stone step, causing a lacerated wound on…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 5

Finger Crushed.—Montague Ford, 10, a waggon repairer, employed at Eirington colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital to-day with a…

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Drowned in River Wilcannia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 5

While swimming in the Darling River, near Wilcannia, last night, Thomas Cleary, 40, was seized with cramp and was drowned…

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Earthquake in Cuba 300 Injured Santiago

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 7

Early estimates of the casualties of the Cuban earthquake on Tuesday night were found to be high when…

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Dived From Ferry Woman Saves Drowning Man Sydney Harbour Thrill Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 7

Exceptional courage was displayed by a young woman, Mrs. Pixie Pratt, of Palmerston-street, Watson's Bay, when she rescued Thomas Kennedy, of Elswick-street,…

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Car Dives Over Pier Man and Woman Drowned 3 A.M. Tragedy Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 7

A motor car driven along Mordialloc Pier, at 3 a.m. to-day, nose-dived into 20 feet of water, drowning its…

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Germany's Olympic Bob-sled Teams Two Teams Injured at Practice Lake Placid (New York)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 8

The Olympic bob sled run here has proved the undoing of two German teams. One sled capsized on Sunday,…

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Accident to Bob-sled Team

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 8

New York, February 2.—A message from Lake Placid states that Albeit Brehme sustained fatal injuries, and three other members of the German bob sled team…

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Man Is Seriously Injured Collision with Car at Mayfield

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 7

As a result of a collision with a motor car between midnight last night and 1 a.m. to-day at Mayfield, George Hall, aged 20. of Vle-street,…

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Child Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 8

A fall yesterday resulted in Joan Bell, aged 8, of 9 Belmont-street, Adamstown, having her left forearm fractured. She was treated at the General Hospital, to…

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Kurri Three Inquests Fishery Creek Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 11

The Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) held three inquests at the Kurri Kurri Court-house yesterday. The first inquiry was concerning the…

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Three Drowned West Australian Farm Swimming in Dam Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 9

H. B. Elliott, 44, a farmer, Allen Elliott, 12, his son, and L. G. Draggett, 30, a farm-hand, were drowned in a dam on a farm at Shackleton…

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Car Over Pier Tragedy at Mordialloc Two Drowned Police Suggest Suicide MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 9

Royden Kennedy Patterson, 49, a grazier, of Tammit Station, near Easton, and Mrs. Ivy Darcy, 40, of Swan Hill, were drowned when a motor car, driven by…

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Mysterious Story of Slashing Injured Man's Razor Missing Wounded in Shoulder Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 8

A dramatic account of an alleged razor slashing was told to Newtown police last night by Lars Olsen, 31 of Hordern-street,…

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Family Injured Charlestown Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 6

A man, his wife, and two children were injured when the motor cycle and sidecar on which they were riding, collided with a motor car at the Kahibah…

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Victim's Condition Car and Cycle Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 6

Though, up to a late hour last night, George Hall, 20, of Vale-street, Wallsend, who was injured in a collision early yesterday morning, had not regained full…

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