Accidental Death Finding On Colliery Tragedy
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 11
A finding of accidental death was recorded by the Kurri District Coroner (Mr. W. O. Pickering) yesterday when he inquired into the death of William Edward Edwards (50), a miner of Main-rd.,…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3
Two men were slightly injured when two cars collided at the corner of Stewart-avenue and Dumaresq-street, Hamilton, yesterday…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday.—A 50-year-old married man, John Kenneth Lee, of Norval-street, Auburn, was fatally injured when the bicycle…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3
Struck by a fall of stone in Borehill colliery, New Lambton, yesterday, Ken Thompson, 24, of South Wallsend, suffered a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Drowned In Waterhole At Lithgow
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1
LITHGOW, Friday.—Half an hour after he disappeared beneath the surface of a waterhole, Peter Franks, 14, was admitted to…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Friday.—An 11-year-old boy and 35-year-old married woman were drowned at a beach near Portsea to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Divers Find Submarine Sunk in Collision Race Against Time To Save 58 Entombed
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1
LONDON, Jan. 13. A.A.P.—At dawn to-day two navy divers located the British submarine, Truculant, which sank in the Thames Estnary last night after a collision with the Swedish tanker, Divina…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2 Men Injured When Surf Boat Swamped
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2
Two crew members suffered minor injuries when Newcastle surf boat overturned on two occasions in a heavy sea at Newcastle Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bolting Horse Hurt In Collision
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY.—A horse attached to a milkcart bolted a quarter of a mile down Newcastle-rd., Rose Bay, early today, collided…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 8
SYDNEY, Monday.—The condition of apprentice jockey Stan Taylor, 20, was reported by St. Vincent's Hospital authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mineworker Injured by Falling Slab
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2
Struck by a falling slab in Lambton Central mine yesterday, Eric Roddom, 34, of Bailey-street, Adamstown, suffered an injury to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident Victim Died From Injuries
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5
John Fernance, 19, of Wyong, a railway ported whose right leg was severed when he was knocked down by a goods train…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3
Hugh Watkins, 49, of Darwin-street, Cessnock, shiftman at Abermain No. 2 colliery, had the first joint of the first, second and third…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Couple Die 3 Days After Collision
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—A young married couple injured in a motor-cycle accident on Saturday died to-day within two hours of each…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A seven-year-old girl was fatally injured to-night while playing with other children in Trafalgar-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Dead; 3 Feared Drowned Cyclone's Toll; Floods Forecast
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1
Three men are feared drowned in a flooded creek northern New South Wales and an Ipswich postman was electrocuted as a result of the intense cyclonic rainstorm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Double Decker Bus, Car Collide Nine Injured
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Nine people were injured, one seriously, when a double-decker bus and a car collided to-night on a short…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclists Injured In Collision
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2
A motor-cyclist and his pillion rider were injured late yesterday afternoon when the cycle and a car collided at the corner of Lawson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Accidents
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3
John Burke (26), of Northave., Cessnock, a clipper at Aberdare Extended Colliery had a piece of wire embedded in his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fourth Officer Blamed For Collision
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 7
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The fourth officer of the Nieuw Holland was held responsible by the Marine Court of Inquiry to-day…
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