Coal Argument Drowned Sirens
SYDNEY.—The Central Coal Reference Board, which yesterday failed to hear the air raid sirens, was apparently…
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Accidents, 1942
659 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 33
Youth Drowned Almost In Sight Of Rescue
LONDON, Thursday (Our Special Representative): For five days 17-year-old William Kelsey clung to the keel of an upturned…
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Injured when a bus crashed into a telegraph pole at Broadmeadow yesterday morning, Mrs. Lilian Westwood, 51, of Main-road,…
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Falling about 30 feet through a culvert on the railway line between Regent-street, west Maitland, and East Greta Junction…
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MELBOURNE.—The apprentice, T. Wells, who fell from Tonlagee shortly after the start of the St. Clair Trial, second division…
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Crushed between two skips at Richmond Main colliery to-day. Albert Close. 21, a wheeler, of Wallsend Street, Stanford…
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J. Tomlinson, 39. screenhand, living at Tomalpin Street, Kearsley, had the great toe of his left foot injured when it was jammed…
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Gunner George Allen, 20, of Greta Camp, was admitted to Kurri Kurri Hospital in a critical condition yesterday morning, suffering from a…
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John Anniwell, 3. of Broadmeadow-road. Broadmeadow, suffered concussion, lacerations to the forenead, and shock, when he fell down…
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Andrew Johnson, 22, of Frederick-street. Waratah, received slight concussion when he was struck on the forehead by a hammer at Cardiff…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Returning a finding of accidental death at the inquest on Gunner Gordon Robert Greentree, 21, the City Coroner…
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Herbert Wells. 25. of Beresfield a wheeler at Kent Colliery, fractured his left foot when it became lammed in a skip. He was…
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When his left foot became jammed in a skip, Herbert Wells, 25, of Beresfield, a wheeler at Kent colliery, received a probable fracture of the foot…
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NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.).— With the loss of 188 lives the U.S. destroyer Truxtum (1193 tons) and the cargo vessel…
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When struck by a fall of coal at Elrington Colliery. Thomas O'Laughlin, 44. miner, of McGrane Street, cessnock. had his left leg…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.—An elderly woman, Isabella Mary Barry was found drowned in the Cement Company's hot water dam at…
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Leonard Word. 33. fitter, of Main Street, Ccssnock. had his right foot injured when he was struck with block and tackle gear…
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SYDNEY.— Old Bulli, on the South Coast, where a stoppage followed a fatal accident to a miner, was the only colliery in New South…
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Injured when thrown out of a sulky at West Wallsend yesterday week, Norma Elaine Brown, 5, of St. Helen-street, Holmesville, died in Wallsend…
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Charles Wylan, 50, radio mechanic, of Victoria-street, New Lambton, was injured when the car he was driving was involved in a collision…
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