3000 Japs Drowned by U.s. Bombers
CHUNGKING. Wednesday: — Three thousand Japanese were drowned In the Yangtse when US bombers sanK two transports off…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
Accidents, 1944
572 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 29
3 Soldiers in Road Fatality
BRISBANE, Friday.—Three soldiers were killed and four injured when a heavy Army truck overturned on the Oakey-Kingsthorpe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured in Train on way to Picnic
SYDNEY, Friday.—David Hegarty, 16, of Stanley-street, Stanmore, was critically injured to-day when he leaned from an electric train window…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Accident Victims Exceed War Casualties
LONDON, April 7. A.A.P.—Mr. Noel Baker, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport, declared the total number of people…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hiker Injured
While hiking at Mount Sugar-loaf yesterday, Jack Hepplewhite, 30, of Quarry-road, Teralba, slipped and fell 14ft. down a rock. Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured By ARP "Protection"
SYDNEY.—James Wiggins. 52. of Francis Street, Enmore, was helping to-day to take down ARP protection work from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Cyclist Injured
Two girls were injured when a bicycle they were riding skidded. Effie Reid, 15, Station-street, Waratah, suffered lacerations and abrasions to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twelve Hurt In Sydney Tram Collision
SYDNEY.—Twelve passengers were injured when two trams carrying workers to the city collided in Googee at 8.30 am…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baby Drowned at End of Holiday
GOSFORD, Tuesday.âWhile his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Standley Klumper, Myrtle-street, Granville, were packing at the close of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Featherweight Champion On Injured List
The Australian featherweight champion. Tommy Chapme, in receiving medical attention as the result of a strain caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Killed, Seven Injured in Brawl
Two Allied servicemen were fatally stabbed and seven other soldiers received medical treatment following a brawl at an Australian port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidentally Killed
Corporal Francis Joseph Fitzpatrick, second son of Mr. F. Fitzpatrick and the late Mrs. Fitzpatrick, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured "Sun" Man Tells Of Paratroops Baptism
Occasionally during the weeks of training preparatory to parachute jumping you speculate upon that first leap you will make from the plane and you notice suddenly that the palms of your hands ar e damp. The Qualified parachute officers don't help you either with their gruesome…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Week-end Accidents
Douglas Goldy, 45 signalman at Cockle Creek railway station, had the second finger of the right hand lacerated when it was caught in the hook…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Apprentice Jockey Injured
Ernest Miller, 17, Darby-street, Cook's Hill, apprentice jockey, suffered a probable fracture of the skull and abrasions to the right forearm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident In Mine
Robert Wilkins, 36. Ross Street. Belmont, a shift man at Belmont Colliery was injured this morning when he was jammed between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday's Accidents
Dorothy, Holly, 2, Fawcett-street, Mayfield, had her face arms and body scalded when she upset boiling water. Newcastle Ambulance took…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cyclist Injured
Stanely Jones, 28 Railway-street, West Wallsend, suffered fracture of fingers on the right hand, abrasions and lacerations to the hand and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Critically Injured by Car
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Henry Clarke, 63, employed at St. Mary's Convent, Hurstville, was knocked down by a car in Hurstville…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Injured While Riding On Van
Reported to have been riding en the roof of a railway van and to have been struck by on overhead bridge near Telarah,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →