Injured by Fall of Stone
William Ridley, 56, of Blacksmiths, a miner at John Darling colliery, suffered concussion, a lacerated shoulder and back when he…
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Accidents, 1949
799 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 40
Three Injured In Road Accidents
Three people were injured yesterday when hit by road vehicles. Struck by a car at the "corner of King and Steel Streets, Newcastle,…
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SYDNEY: The coastal steamer Bombo sank off Wollongong at 10 o'clock last night. Twelve men are believed to have been drowned. One survivor, Marshall Fitzsimmons, of 20…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Balt migrant and his wife were seriously injured when hit by a double-decker bus late to-night in Pacific…
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SYDNEY: Robert Marx Matthew Thomas, 19, laborer, was carried into the City Coroner's Court today on a stretcher to attend an inquest on a man he. is alleged to have murdered. Thomas's back is broken. The Coroner (Mr. M. J. D…
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The man who was fatally injured in Hunter-street on Monday night, when hit by a jeep, has been identified as. John Wylson,…
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DURBAN, Feb. 23. A.A.P.— Denis Compton, the England cricketer escaped uninjured when a car in which he was travelling…
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At the intersection of Tudor and William Streets, Hamilton, late on the night of January 29, Mrs. Adelaide Bashford, 67, pensioner…
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At the inquest into the death of Richard Thomas Field, 41, of Brisbane-st., Awaba, the Newcastle and District Coroner…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man searching for his mother-in-law, who disappeared last night, found her floating face down in Kendall…
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LONDON, Feb. 24. A.A.P.—Two Army officers, a police inspector, a police sergeant and two civilians were injured when a box of 100…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Eleven people were injured when trams collided at Forest Lodge this morning…
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John M. Vivash, 25, an employee of the Bank of New South Wales, Hamilton, was fatally injured in a collision between his…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Two people were killed and five injured, one critically, early this afternoon when two lorries crashed head on…
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When his motor-cycle and a bicycle collided at the corner of Heddon and Cooranbong Roads, Broadmeadow, yesterday, Alexander…
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Alan McAlister, 28, of Wallsend-road, Shortland, a miner at Blackbutt colliery, suffered burns, abrasions and bruises to the body, right…
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SYDNEY. — Three people were injured when a double-decker bus skidded 100 yards, crashed into a telegraph pole…
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Four people suffered minor injuries and one shock when a car in which they were travelling collided with a stationary lorry in…
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SYDNEY: Final figures for 1948 just released by the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. C. N. Neale) revealed that in New South Wales 30 more people were killed in road accidents than in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Attempting to rescue a friend's wife who was in difficulties in the river at Richmond this afternoon, Norman…
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