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Daily News
Year End Review - 1927
FATALITIES ON LAND & SEA
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Publishing Any monetary or commercial gain from using this material is strictly
prohibited and subject to legal action.
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.
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January 07, 1927 | Samuel Earle drowned at Point Leamington. |
| January 10, 1927 | Peter and Raymond Hunt, aged 1 and 21 years, while returning to Cow Head with dog team, fell through ice and are drowned at Burnt Point, Simmons Bay. |
| January 11, 1927 | Harold W Diamond, 24, reported lost at sea. |
| January 20, 1927 | Thomas Coates, Gander Bay Trapper, found dead in woods. |
| January 21, 1927 | Abraham Rogers, 26, formerly of Newfoundland, killed at Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| January 22, 1927 | Arthur and Harold Blackmore, aged 55 and 27 respectively, of Pilley’s Island, drowned by falling through ice. |
| January 24, 1927 | Walter Parrott, 24, of Heart’s Content, drowned at Western Pond. |
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| February 02, 1927 | Fred Sergent, 26, married, Bishop’s Falls, drowned by falling through ice. |
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| March 04, 1927 | William Stewart of Brigus, and Captain Wm. McLeod, also of Newfoundland, drowned when schooner Montclair goes ashore on Orleans Bar. |
| March 08, 1927 | Charles Hamlyn, 16, succumbs from wounds, from accidental discharge of revolver. |
| March 10, 1927 | William J Miles, 18, English Harbor, drowned at sea in storm. |
| March 15, 1927 | Patrick Callahan, native of Newfoundland, drowned in Alaskan waters. |
| March 25, 1927 | John Grouchy, 13, killed by falling over Signal Hill. |
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| April 04, 1927 | Charles Pelley, 17, of Port Union, fatally shoots himself whilst hunting. |
| April 22, 1927 | William Currie of Rose Blanche, drowned at Burgeo. |
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| May 16, 1927 | John Parsons, 11, of Hampton, drowned. |
| May 14, 1927 | Archibald T. Nichol, 50, formerly of St. John’s, killed in General Electric Company Plant at Evertt, Mass. |
| May 19, 1927 | Martin Brodest, 8, of Tilting, accidently burnt to death. |
| May 26, 1927 | James Pynn, native of New Chelsea, T.B., killed at Sydney Steel Plant. |
| May 30, 1927 | James Lake, 26, formerly of Newfoundland, killed in coal mine, New Glasgow.
Melvin Boyd, 13, killed, Alfred Boyd, 16, of Tizzard’s Harbor, seriously
injured, by explosion of gasoline tank, caused by lighted match. |
| May 31, 1927 | Edward Dwyer, 18, of Bell Island, fatally injured by ore car. |
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| June 06, 1927 | Patrick Finn, 39, formerly of Spaniard’s Bay, killed at Paris, Ont. |
| June 07, 1927 | Lawrence Kehoe, 29, of St. John’s, Wireless Ooperator on Canadian Custom Cruiser Grib, drowned at Lunenburg, N.S. |
| June 11, 1927 | William J Thistle, 45, formerly of Broad Cove, B.D.V., killed by falling from scaffold at New York. |
| June 14, 1927 | Alan Regular, 15 months, drowned by falling into tub of water at Humber Canal. |
| June 21, 1927 | Elizabeth Coley, 18, found drowned in pond, at Burgeo. |
| June 28, 1927 | Charles Paul, of St. Bernard’s, F.B., Bank fishermen, drowned at Calvert, Ferryland District. |
| June 29, 1927 | Samuel Parsons, John Parsons, William Penney, John March, Hubert Hynes, Patrick Hynes, all of Port au Port, drowned when boat upsets, while crossing from Aquathuna. |
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| July 01, 1927 | Reg. Young and Henry Lindstrom, drowned at Round Pond, while trouting.
Harold Harris, 22, Port Blandford, killed at Gambo, by falling between cars
of moving train. |
| July 07, 1927 | Martin Quann of Sagona, F.B., and Randloph Thomas Strowbridge, of Red Cove, F.B., reported drowned on Banks, from schooner Mary Ann Bell Wolfe. |
| July 10, 1927 | Adolphus Tucker, of Happy Adventure, drowned while swimming in Sandy River, near Howley. |
| July 16, 1927 | Fred Byrne, formerly of St. John’s, drowned at New York. |
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| August 01, 1927 | Fred Brazil, 11, drowned at Battle Harbor. |
| August 03, 1927 | Moses Coish, 35, drowned at Green’s Harbor. |
| August 08, 1927 | Patrick Ryan, 53, unmarried, jumps from window of his bedroom, Barron St., and succumbs to injuries. |
| August 14, 1927 | Tobias Tremblett, 17, Bonavista, drowned while swimming. |
| August 25, 1927 | Albert Cluett, lost overboard from schooner Noxal, and drowned.
George Hayden, blown off N.P. & P Co.’s boom at Humbermouth, and drowned. |
| August 29, 1927 | Bosun Jaul W Holman, of S.S. Athelstone, dies from drinking wood alcohol. |
| August 30, 1927 | Sidney Warford, 33, killed at Bell Island. |
| August 31, 1927 | Simon Anderson, another of S.S. Athelstone’s crew, dies from drinking wood alcohol. |
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| September 25, 1927 | John Murphy, 22, of St. John’s, killed by train in New York. |
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| October 16, 1927 | Eileen Tilley, aged 4, killed by motor car on Long’s Hill. |
| October 18, 1927 | John Bartlett, of Bareneed, drowned from S.S Susan. |
| October 25, 1927 | Malcolm Peckford, Change Islands, accidentally shot whilst hunting. |
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| November 13, 1927 | Richard F Baker, 54, formerly of Newfoundland, killed by car, at Sydney Mines |
| November 16, 1927 | Stephen P Wells, 27, formerly of Three Arms, N.D.B., killed at Ottawa. |
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| December 01, 1927 | Abram Morris, Great Jervois, drowned from schooner Carranea, between St. Pierre and Sydney. |
| December 09, 1927 | Harry Rossiter, of Ramea, drowns at Cul de Sac. |
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