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Year End Review - 1923

FATALITIES OF THE YEAR

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The records were transcribed by JOHN BAIRD Formatted by GEORGE WHITE
While we have endeavored to be as correct as humanly possible, there could be some typographical errors.

PUB. DATE	DETAILS
December 13, 1922	Body of Miss Lindsay, discovered half a mile from the Schoolhouse, near Cartwright, Labrador.

January 1, 1923	Max Garland, 13, son of Thomas Garland, formerly Hair Dresser in St. John’s, accidentally killed, when playing with a revolver at Culver City, California.
January 3, 1923	David Burge, Friday’s Bay, left home and believed drowned.
January 12, 1923	George Kelloway, 27, killed by fall of coal in Victoria Mine, Glace Bay.
January 14, 1923	Thomas Ford, H.M.C., Channel, overcome by blizzard, between Channel and Port aux Basques, dies a few minutes after rescue.
January 20, 1923	George Wells, of Little Bay, struck by an automobile at Renton, Washington State, U.S.A., the previous day, died, aged 41.

February 6, 1923	Second Officer Robert Carter, of Port aux Basques, washed overboard from S.S. Kyle, 32. Bernard Dollamont, Fireman on S.S. Watuka, drowned in Halifax Harbor.
February 19, 1923	Patrick Mulcahey, Bay Bulls, accidentally killed at Bermuda.

March 1, 1923	Thomas Martin, 21, buried under a coal pile which caved in, at the Atlantic Sugar Refineries. Died after being dug out and rushed to Hospital.
March 8, 1923	Herbert Blondin, 30, and Miles O’Brien, 26, Bay Bulls, swept overboard from schooner Elizabeth Howard, and lost. Both unmarried.
March 14, 1923	Capt William Sutton, drowned at Seal Cove, British Columbia. John Prasugan, 80, left his home in Flat Bay Brook, for Sandy Point, St. George's, and perished in the snow. Body found a few days later.
March 15, 1923	Two young girls, daughters of Ralph Costard, Cape George, received severe injuries from lighting a fire with gasoline, and died two days later.
March 17, 1923	Charles Vatcher, Lower Battery, 21, drowned at Skerries Cove, outside the Narrows, when bird shooting. Married, one child. Body recovered the following Monday. Young man named Emberley of Paradise, P.B., accidentally shot by his own gun, which exploded when being played with, by his dog, in the boat in which he was bird shooting.
March 19, 1923	John T Tobin, Trepassey, perished in severe blizzard.
March 21, 1923	Joseph Hayes, Renews, found dead in Fermeuse Station, where he had sought refuge from the blizzard of previous day. Frozen body of Peter Raymond, of the Goulds, another victim of the blizzard, found six miles from his home.

April 12, 1923	Isaac Samson, 63, and Augustus Samson, 50, of Winterton, drowned off Grates Cove Point.
April 27, 1923	In early morning fire on Spencer Street, John Donovan, aged 85, burned to death, others of family narrowly escape.

May 1, 1923	George Penney, Heart’s Content, killed there, when discharging coal from S.S. Cranley.
May 7, 1923	Thomas Strowbridge, aged and almost blind, drowned from schooner Dixie, at Harbor Breton. Thomas Kennedy, 74, of Green Point, near Gaultois, struck by a stone thrown by a young man, and died five days later.
May 10, 1923	George Mallatt of Yarmouth, N.S., Sailor on the S.S. Wascana, at Bell Island, struck by a car loaded with ore, and instantly killed.
May 17, 1923	George Lewis, Holyrood, dies in Hospital at Sydney, after amputation of both legs, due to a fall in the Steel Works. James Curran, accidentally killed at New Aberdeen Colliery, 22.
May 22, 1923	Selby Gosse, 17, Bell Island, died from injuries received through being struck by a loaded car, on the Nova Scotia Pier.
May 23, 1923	Vincent Slaney, St. Lawrence, reported lost from schooner Ellen and Mary, of Grand Bank.
May 26, 1923	Leo Cluny, Ex-Pte. in Forestry Battalion, reported killed in Quebec, by a falling derrick.
May 28, 1923	James Boone, dies as result of a carriage accident on the previous day, at Flat Rock, St. John’s, East.

June 7, 1923	Herbert Hammond, Portugal Cove, falls between cars of ore on Bell Island, and is badly crushed. George Drover, Hodge's Cove, drowned at Harbor Steady, Millertown, when driving logs.
June 10, 1923	Little lad named Peddle, age 6, strayed from his home, found long after. Probably fell of railway trestle.
June 14, 1923	Alice Gulley, Bonne Bay, 15, when insane, suicides.
June 20, 1923	John St. John, Harbor Grace, 47, John L Wellon, Ladle Cove, and Adam Kean, Musgrave Harbor, 59, drowned at Grand Falls, through upsetting of boat.
June 21, 1923	Leo Cluney, killed at Quebec. Jermiah Callahan, of Humber Brook, drowned while conveying some tourists up the river.

July 4, 1923	Alfred Martin, Hickman’s Harbor, fell over the wharf, and is drowned, 57.
July 9, 1923	Alfred Skinner, Belleoram, 38, drowned, 80 miles off shore, through fall from deck of schooner Dorothy I., whose brother Ralph Skinner, was Master.
July 11, 1923	Little Mollie Humphries, 4½, killed by motorcycle on Cornwall Avenue.
July 16, 1923	John S Harrow, Ship’s Harbor, P.B., drowned when swimming in St. John Harbor, New Brunswick.
July 26, 1923	Augustus McNeil, drowned off St. Shotts.
July 31, 1923	Gerald Griffiths, 12, accidentally killed by motor car on the South Side Road.

August 4, 1923	Leonard Hart, killed at Fogo in a saw mill accident.
August 9, 1923	Thomas Whalen, Bryants Cove, instantly killed at Bell Island, 28.
August 13, 1923	William and Maxwell Inkpen of Burin, drowned.
August 16, 1923	Raymond Lever, Heart’s Content, 16, falls over public wharf and is drowned. Thomas Fitzgerald, Mobile, killed at Boston. Remains interred in his native place on August 25th.
August 22, 1923	James Lomond, Channel, one of the crew of the S.S. Stella Maris, Capt. Renouf, washed overboard in heavy weather and drowned.
August 23, 1923	Herbert Dawe, killed by fall from the 8th floor of the Robert Simpson Building, Toronto.
August 28, 1923	S. Mollow, 82, Fishery Warden, and his 7 year old granddaughter, drowned in the Serpentine River, St. George’s.
August 29, 1923	Herbert Pike, drowned while bathing at Topsail. Young man, son of Edward Rowe of Norris Arm, drowned from motor boat opposite Mill Point, Botwood, when on the way to Fogo.

September 2, 1923	Fracas at Chapel’s Cove, Harbor Main, when man name Fewer was assaulted by another named Hawco. Fewer, as result of injuries received, died in Hospital on September 13th. Hawco charged with wilful murder.
September 3, 1923	Miss Hilda Horney, 23, killed by runway car on Bell Island.
September 6, 1923	Thomas McCarthy, injured in boiler explosion at the Royal Hotel, St. John, N.B., on August 26th, died there of his injuries.
September 9, 1923	Agusta Joe Berte of the Portugese Crusier, Carvalhoe Aranjo, died after double amputation, at the hospital, due to severe injuries received in storm at sea.
September 13, 1923	William Kenway, Flat Island, P.B., knocked overboard by the main boom of a fishing vessel, and is drowned.
September 20, 1923	Henry Peddle 28, crushed to death at Besco Steel Plant, Sydney.
September 25, 1923	James Brown, Grand Bank, 16, accidently and fatally shoots himself at Lamaline.
September 27, 1923	John Hoskins, died in Hospital from injuries, caused by a fall from a ladder, when making alteration on the tower of the Methodist College, the previous Tuesday.

October 1, 1923	Vincent Molloy, Marystown, lost with schooner General Parr. Daniel Strout of Rose Blanche, blown overboard and drowned. Arthur Childs, English Harbor, Fortune Bay, washed overboard from schooner Effie May, when homeward bound from Labrador.
October 2, 1923	Freight train overturned near Northern Bight, due to embankment washed away by storm. Engine Driver, Charles Cahill, 45, killed.
October 9, 1923	Gladys Inkpen, 8, Ship’sCove, Burin, burned to death, her clothing catching from the flame of a kerosene oil stove. Five year old daughter of James Chapman, Little Bay Islands, burned to death.

November 21, 1923	Michael Bulger, Flat Rock, accidentally killed when discharging Locomotive for the Humber, at the St. John’s Dry Dock.
November 29, 1923	Roland John Carter of Greenspond, drowned at Montreal.

December 7, 1923	Arthur Hampton, Portland, B.B., killed through bursting of a block and tackle, when engaged in hauling a house.
December 8, 1923	Body of Florence White, Conception Harbor, a Domestic, found dead in Waterford River.
December 20, 1923	Lewis Mitchell, Kelly’s Cove, Burin, drowned through falling overboard when mooring his boat.