Yesterday's Accidents
Frank Leslis, 29, suffered a fractured pelvis when he was, jammed between a crane and a girder at work at Waratah yesterday…
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Accidents, 1944
572 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 29
Nepean Drowning
SYDNEY, Sunday.— Valmai Elaine Goddard, 17, of Campsie, was drowned in the Nepean River, near Windsor, to-day. She was seen in…
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In a fall of coal at Seanam No. 2 Colliery to-day. Bob Richmond, of Garth Street, Young Wallsend, had his right foot…
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Three people were injured in a car accident on Maitland Road. Hexham. in the early hours of this morning. They were:—…
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SYDNEY.—There was no warning notice of a 50-foot drop in the Hawkesbury River near the picnic spot at Windsor Bridge…
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Two mine workers were injured today on their first day at work in the New Year. The victims were Errol Harvey…
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A pen rifle carried by Roy Sladen, a soldier, was discharged yesterday as Sladen was getting through a fence and the charge…
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Three persons were injured in a car accident in Maitland-road, Hexham, early yesterday morning. They were Leslie Saxton, 26,…
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A man who had cut his fool badly with an axe this morning did not summon help, but jumped on to his horse and galloped two…
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ROMA, Monday.—George Archibald Taylor, 42, died in Roma Hospital to-day from injuries received in a bomb accident during V.D.C…
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In a fall at the Ocean Baths, Ron Downic, 16, Estelle-street, Maryville, received lacerations to the head and concussion. Newcastle Ambulance…
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Knocked down by a bicycle last night, Ashley Callan, 18, of Russellstreet, Homeville, suffered extensive lacerations and contusions. He was…
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When Ashley callan, 18, of Russell Street, Homeville, was knocked down by a bicycle last night, he sustained severe lacerations…
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Joe Beckett, 7, of Albert Street, Rutherford, sustained severe lacerated wounds to the first, second and third toes of his right…
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BOWRAL, Tuesday.—A man who was rescued from the Bong Bong River and given artificial respiration was found at the post-mortem…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two Australian naval ratings, John Cooper and Neville Byrnes, were seriously injured when a car in which they were…
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After severing an artery of his foot with an axe. Arthur Dews, 35, of Main-road, Teralba, jumped on his horse and rode two miles to Lake…
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Suffering from severe scalds to his chest and left arm and shock. John Farquharson, 7, of Young-road. Lambton, was admitted to Wallsend…
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An inquest into the death of Richard Thompson, mine deputy, of Devonshire Street, West Maitland. who was killed at…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Vincent William John Anderson, 19, of Edgeworth David-street, Hornsby, was drowned in a swimming pool in a…
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