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From: "Alan & Sue O'Neill" <>
Subject: [NFLD-LAB] R.A.G. Fatalities Sea and Land Jan-June (1927newspaper)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:13:32 -0400


Forwarded to the NFLD-LAB list on Chris Shelley's behalf

The Year of Events for 1927 were transcribed with the help of John Baird.

Reprinted courtesy of Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing

From the St. John's Daily News

SATURDAY DECEMBER 31 1927

Fatalities on Sea and Land

January

7. Samuel EARL drowned at Point Leamington.

10Peter and Raymond HUNT, aged 17 years, while returning to Cow Head with
dog team fell through ice and are drowned at Burnt point, Simmons Bay.

11Harold W. DIAMOND, 24 reported lost at sea.

20 Thomas COATES, Gander Bay trapper, found dead in woods.

21Abraham ROGERS, 26 formerly of Newfoundland, Killed at Brooklyn N. Y.

22Arthur and Harold BLACKMORE, aged 55 and 27 respectively, of Pilley's
Island, drowned by falling through ice.

24Walter PARROTT, 24, of Heart's Content, drowned at Western Pond.


February

2Fred SARGENT, 26 , married, Bishop's Falls, drowned by falling through ice.


MARCH

2William STEWART, of Burgeo and Captain Wm. McLEOD, also of Newfoundland,
drowned when schooner Montclair goes ashore on Orleans Bar.

8Charles HAMLYN, 16, succumbs from wounds from accidental discharge of
revolver.

10William J MILES, 18, English Harbour, drowned at sea in storm.

25Patrick CALLAHAN, native of Newfoundland, drowned in Alaskan waters.

28John GROUCHY, 13, killed by falling over Signal Hill.

APRIL

4Charles PELLEY, 17, of Port Union, fatally shoots himself whilst hunting

22William CURRIE, of Rose Blanche, drowned at Burgeo


MAY

16John PARSONS, 11 , of Hampton drowned.

18Archibald T NICHOL, 50, formerly of St. John's, killed in General
Electric Company plant at Everett, Mass.

19Martin BORDERS, 8, of Tilting accidentally burnt to death.

26James PYNN, native of Chelsea, T. B. Killed at Sydney steel plant.

30James LAKE, 26 , formerly of Newfoundland killed in coal mine, New Glasgow.

Melvin BOYD, 13, killed, Alfred BOYD, 16, of Tizzard Hr.
seriously injured by explosion of gasoline tank caused by lighted match.

31Edward DWYER, 18, of Bell Island, fatally injured by ore car.

June

6 Patrick FINN, 39, formerly of Spaniard's Bay, killed at Paris, Ont.

7Lawrence KEHOE, 29, of St. John's , wireless operator on Canadian
Customs' cruiser Grib , drowned at Lunenburg, N. S.

11William J THISTLED, 45, formerly of Broad Cove, B. D. V. killed by
falling from scaffold at New York.

14Alan REGULAR, 15 months, drowned by falling into tub of water at Humber
Canal.

21Elizabeth COLEY, 18, found drowned in pond at Burgeo.

28Charles PAULS, of St. Bernard's F. B. , bank fisherman, drowned at
Calvert, Ferryland district.


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