Coalfields Have Unusual Accident Series
In separate accidents in the Maitland-Cessnock district yesterday, three men suffered injuries to theirs left arms, and a youth and a boy…
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Accidents, 1948
707 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 36
Motorist Injured
Bruce Cheetham, 17, of High-street, West Maitland, received heavy contusions to the nose with a probable fracture, abrasions and…
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Richard Williams, 49, of James-street, Hamilton, had his head injured last night when he fell at the corner of Beaumont and Donald…
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LONDON, Jan. 7. A.A.P.—Two Australians, John McLeod and his sister, Miss Isabella McLeod, of Concord, N.S.W., were injured…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—John Murphy, 23, of Broken Hill, was drowned at Lorne this afternoon when, with four companions, he…
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MELBOURNE: Jockey A. ("Scobie") Breasley was hurt in a race scrimmage and had to be assisted to the weighing…
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Bernard Withers, 12, of McArthur-street, Homeville, suffered injury to the left forearm and probable fracture when he fell from a…
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NYNGAN, Sunday.—Gilbert Sleeman, employed on Oakey Station, near Nyngan, lay helpless for 24 hours with a broken leg…
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ADELAIDE.—A "sudden premonition" led 60-year-old fireman, Mr. Harry Bonner, to the rescue of a drowning girl at…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A nurse and three children were injured, and trees were uprooted by a storm which swept Sandgate, near…
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When a car and a motor cycle collided at the intersection of Parkway-avenue and Tudor-street about 10.50 last night, the pillion-rider,…
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BRISBANE.—One man was drowned and five or six others had to swim for their lives when the vessel Grazier…
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James Warby, 89, of George-street, Largs, suffered a contused wound about two inches long on the crown of his head and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Seriously injured when she fell 20 feet from a window on to a hedge last night, Mrs. Josephine Butcher, 49, lay in…
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A man was killed at Eualong yesterday when he was knocked down while trying to cross a road in blinding rain and a man was seriously injured in a road crash during heavy rain at Lithgow…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Annette Joyce Ricketts, 18 months, was drowned in an old well at the rear of her parents' home in Macquarie…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Henry Maddams, 45, engineer, of Manilla-street, East Brisbane, was drowned when the 81-ton tug, Grazier,…
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Len Bullen, 50, of Aberdare-street, Kitchener, a shiftman at Aberdare Central Colliery, suffered an injury to his left foot when it…
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Falling about 40 feet from a crane at Rylands yesterday afternoon, Vincent Collins. 21. electrician, suffered a dislocated right…
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Evelyn Howard, 33, of Vincent-st., Cessnock, lacerated her left leg when she fell against a pane of glass. Len Bullen, 50, of Aberdare-st.,…
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