Coalfields Accidents
Stan Gresham, shunter, of Desmond Street cessnock, had his right leg injured when he was caught between a skip and a rib…
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Accidents, 1944
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Christmas Day Drowning
A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) at an inquest yesterday into the death of Kevin Gerald Campbell,…
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More Japs have been killed in barges trying to escape the Allied land blockade between Sio and Saidor, on the north…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—It was stated in the Coroner's Court that the driver of the American truck which collided with a Brisbane tram…
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While riding a motor-cycle in Broadmeadow-road Broadmeadow, Bombardier K. H. O'Neil, 20, struck an electric light standard. He fractured his right…
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Residents In the area adjoining the dead-end of Throsby Creek, where an 11-year-old Mayfield girl, Betty Smith, of…
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An 11-year-old Mayfield schoolgirl was drowned in Throsby Creek, Carrington, last night, saving the life of her seven-year-old nephew…
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J. Haydon. about 55, of Third-street. Teralba, a miner at Pacific colliery, was treated by Lake Macquarie Ambulance for severe contusions to the…
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Falling stone injured two mine-workers today in the Cessnock district. They were Herbert Roberts, 42. miner, Kalingo Street…
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Pte. C. Duncombe, 29, of Charlotte-street, Marrickville, wan drowned in the Hunter River at Luskintyre yesterday, afternoon. His…
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Mrs. Margaret Hughes, 59, of Wallsend, was found in a semi-conscious condition in a gutter at the side of Lake-road, Wallsend, near…
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When she fell off a building, June Hetherington, 8, Water-street, North Lambton, received a laceration to her chest and shock. She was taken to…
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Caught between skips, Raymond O'Neill, 27. wheeler, had his right index finger partly severed at John Darling colliery…
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Two cyclists were injured in a collision with a lorry at the corner of Brunker and Melville Roads, Hamilton, yesterday morning. They…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—When two trams collided outside the Rusheutter Bay tram depot early to-night, 25 people were injured by flying…
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WYONG.—Skylarking with another youth at his home last night. Alexander McPhan (16). of Kanwal, was accidentlly shot in…
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SYDNEY—Tahmoor struck the rails at Randwick today injuring his near foreleg, a Challenge Stakes start for him now…
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SYDNEY.—In one of the worst tram smashes in Australian history 18 people were killed and three injured when a train bound from Sydney to Tarmworth crashed into a crowded bus at a level-crossing near the Hawkesbury River station to-day…
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Falling off a horse at Islington Barry Sanford, 11, Teralba-road, Broadmeadow, suffered cuts and bruises to the hands, legs and body, and…
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ALGIERS, Wednesday—Squadron-Leader Lance Wade. DFC, and two bars, an American born fighter pilot of the RAF has been…
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