Child Drowned in Flooded Creek
GRAFTON, Thursday.—Yvonne Perkins, 7, of South Grafton, was drowned this afternoon in a flooded creek running through South…
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Accidents, 1943
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 32
16 Injured in Melbourne Train Smash
MELBOURNE. — Sixteen people were injured in Melbourne's worst railway accident for 10 years, when an electric passenger train…
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The number of fatal accidents reported to the Newcastle Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) in 1942 was 113. They included drownings 6,…
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SYDNEY.—An RAAP corporal was killed and a consta[?]e, four women, two men, a girl and a youth were injured in accidents…
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Severely injured at a service station in High-street, West Maitland, on Tuesday, when he was struck by the rim of a wheel after a truck tyre…
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LONDON, Friday: Accidents to adult women in Britain's war factories are now three times greater than in 1940. Many married women are…
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GLEN INNES, Sunday.—Crossing a flooded ford at a northern river during military manoeuvres late on Friday afternoon, three soldiers, all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scouts Hurt in Road Accident Lorry Overturned
Six Boy Scouts and two other passengers were injured on Saturday night when a lorry in which they were travelling to Kurri Kurri ran off…
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Two mineworkers were injured in accidents to-day at Aberdare Central Colliery. Albert Crossley, 51, miner, had…
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John Tapp, 30 shotfirer of Main Road. Cessnock was caught by a fall of coal at Aberdare Colliery to-day. He was…
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Struck by a lorry while riding a bicycle at Broadmeadow, Leonard Mundin, 40 of Braodmeadow-road, Broadmeadow, received, an injury to the…
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W. G. Gould, 40, of Byron St., Wyong, an electrician's laborer at Cardiff workshops, had the index finger of his right hand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weston Fettler Fatally Injured
Believed to have been ran over by a train, Frederick Charles Bills, 47, of Appleton-avenue, Weston, a fettler, employed by Hebburn No. 1…
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Diving into the Bogey-hole, June Clarence, 14, of Queen-street, Stockton, received a probable slight fracture of the neck. Newcastle Ambulance took…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—While playing with two other boys in the pumping hole of Brickworks Ltd., Euston-road. Alexandria, this…
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Struck by a prop while working at Northern Extended colliery. Albert McAloney, 53, of Bolton Point. had his right arm fractured. He was taken to…
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Three mine workers at collieries in the Cessnock district were taken to Cessnock Hospital to-day after they were involved in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Leading Aircraftman John Thomas McCarthy, of Cowra, N.S.W., trainee pilot, was killed when two planes collided while…
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MELBOURNE—When a car returning to Mortlake from Ballarat overturned, Le[?]le Lucas, 32, married, of Penshurst, was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coroner Refused to Add Rider Fatality at Colliery
At an inquest at Kurri Kurri Courthouse yesterday afternoon into the death of a shiftman at Abermain No. 2 Colliery, Mr. W. H. May…
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