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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
2,026 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 102
"This was a most unusual accident and would not have happened if the road had been free of pot-holes," said the District Coroner (Mr. A. C. Chiplin) at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Beryl Rowe, 18 months, of St. Helen-street, Holmesville, received scalds to the face and left arm when she pulled a hot cup of tea off the table at her home…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mrs. Elinor Hunter, 51, who was gassed in a Bellevne Hill flat on December 20 had claimed to be the wife of the late Will Rogers, film star, the Coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →James Ferguson, 13, of Cessnock Street, Cessnock, had his left foot badly lacerated to-day when it was caught in the wheel of his scooter…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Although unable to swim, fully clothed, and wearing an overcoat. Alfred Cohen, 18, floated in Tamar for 20 minutes before being taken ashore. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two men lost their lives and 15 others were injured, four of them seriously, in motor accidents in the Newcastle and Maitland district…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A man was drowned and Eric Welch, a radio announcer, and another man escaped when a car in which Welch and two members of the office staff of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A 12-months old baby was swept away and drowned when a motor-car was overturned in a stream of flood water on the Albany-Mt. Barker road…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fred Atkins was forced to submit to Joe Kopack in the third round of their wrestling match at Leichhardt Stadium lost night. Atkins strained a cartilege…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A brush occurred between the Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) and Mr. I. Hoare, Acting Northern District Check…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Andy Udby, of Victoria, had his arm fractured when a tyre of his bicycle punctured during a motor-paced match race at the Sports Arena last night…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Houses were wrecked, trees uprooted, telephone and telegraph lines smashed down, and a number of persons injured in a terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Francoist bombers made 19 raids on Barcelona in 12 hours, killing 27 persons and wounding 67. The dead include six…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →James Anderson, 10, of Warner's Bay, dived into shallow water at Warner's Bay yesterday, struck a stone and lacerated his scalp, which necessitated the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An increased number or accidents was attended by ambulance officers last year. Of 78,343 persons taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →James Cussins, 48, of Fern Street, Islington, had the index finger of his left hand fevered while at work at Goninan's engineering works to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Empire flying-boat Cavalier, bound from New York for Bermuda, was lost in the Atlantic, midway between the two termini, yesterday afternoon. Of the 13 persons on board—eight passengers and a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two trams collided in Parramatta-road this afternoon and about 40 people were hurt. Of these 20 were taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Fijian, his wife and five children, are reported to have been drowned in the Navua district during a cyclonic storm at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Seven of the crew of the St. Ives (Cornwall) lifeboat are believed to have been drowned when the lifeboat was lost in a terrific north-westerly gale this…
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