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Year End Review - 1929

FATALITIES ON LAND & SEA

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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
January 8, 1929	Thomas Fitzgerald, 62, of Little Paradise, P.B., drowned by falling over wharf.
January 9, 1929	William Hart, aged 7 years, of Island Harbor, Fogo, accidently shot dead by 13 year old lad named Simon Heath.
January 14, 1929	Wallace Meade, Fox Roost, near Port Aux Basques, accidently shoots himself while bird hunting.
January 30, 1929	Rhoderick Bourne, Pinchard’s Island, drowned while bird hunting. John Spearling, Fogo, accidentally shot and killed while bird hunting at Hare Island.

February 5, 1929	Llewellyn Bugden, of Petley, Smith Sound, accidentally killed when tree fell on him, while logging near Shoal Harbor.
February 6, 1929	Man named Butt, falls from considerable height at Paper Mill, Corner Brook, dies few hours later.
February 17, 1929	During the past five days, fifty persons have died from cold in Belgium.

March 2, 1929	George Linehan, drowned while bird shooting at John’s Pond, St. Mary’s Bay. John Anthony, 19, St. John’s, washed overboard and drowned, from schooner Jean Wakely.
March 11, 1929	Charles Denis, of Curling, fatally injured, when struck by express in Crow gulch, dies, aged 50, married. John Osbourne, Frenchman’s Cove, F.B., loses life in blizzard.
March 19, 1929	William Dewland and his son Job, of Pushthrough, drowned, when sea swamped boat in which they were setting trawls.
March 22, 1929	William Harvey, Rose Blanche, missing from schooner Mahasea, sunk off Nova Scotia by French trawler.
March 27, 1929	Body of William Myler, 49, found in harbor.
March 28, 1929	George Yarn, Port aux Basques, dies in sealing steamer Vedas.

April 4, 1929	Kenneth, 2 year old son of Louis Davis, Port aux Basques, drowned by falling over wharf.
April 8, 1929	Arthur Keough, Petries, dies after being run over by express, which severed two legs.
April 13, 1929	Body of William Anderson, found in unoccupied lumber camp, 5 miles from Deer Lake.
April 16, 1929	Leslie Reid, unmarried, of Little Catalina, killed by accidental discharged of his gun.
April 21, 1929	Isaac House, washed overboard and drowned, from schooner Ronald M Douglas.
April 28, 1929	Charles Hunter Brown, 8 ½, killed by sloven on LeMarchant Road. Little girl name Rose, drowned at Corner Brook, aged 4.

May 6, 1929	Stanley Best, 14, drowned at Spencer’s Cove.
May 16, 1929	Willis Vokey, aged 33, drowned at British Harbor.
May 25, 1929	Baxter Thistle, 21, of Harbor Grace, accidentally killed, following blast, set off in pulpwood jamb.

June 5, 1929	John Bullen and Harry Blagdon, washed over board and drowned, from schooner Dixie, at Bay de L’eau.
June 9, 1929	Nell Mahar, 45, killed by falling from coal gangway, on premises of W.H. Hynes.
June 10, 1929	Herbert Dalley, 26, William Dalley, 20, drowned off Twillingate, when motor boat swamped.
June 11, 1929	Martin Collins falls from motor truck, and fatally injured. Ralph Tutt, Scott Street, loses his life, by drowning at Long Pond.
June 13, 1929	James Leo Fitzpatrick, 23, run over by electric shovel at Bell Island, and killed. John Peddle, native of Victoria, Newfoundland, killed at Glace Bay.
June 14, 1929	Lionel and Andrew Clarke, formerly of Carbonear, killed at Dayton, Ohio.
June 15, 1929	Body of Samuel Butt of Rocky Harbor, picked up at Ferrole Point, St. John Bay. Edward Kane of Salmonier, knocked overboard from schooner Florizel, at Point Lance, and drowned.
June 20, 1929	Pilot C.S. Caldwell, well known locally, killed with two others when plane strikes wire, over St. Lawrence river.
June 22, 1929	Randell Garland, 27, of Lower Island Cove, drowned when boat in which he was fishing, was cut down by motor skiff.
June 25, 1929	Patrick J Shea, fatally injured when small buggy in which he was riding, was hit by steam coach, at Waterford Bridge.
June 27, 1929	William Hedges, Carbonear, drowned at Francis Harbor, Labrador. Annie Cooper, 4 years, accidentally killed by motor car.

July 21, 1929	John Warren, killed instantly by explosion of dynamite, while excavating on Pennywell Road.
July 28, 1929	Max Strickland, of schooner Myrtle Parsons, of Harmitage, drowned by upsetting dory at Isle au Bos.

August 4, 1929	John King, fatally injured at Dawe’s Mill, Western Arm, when clothes caught in machinery. Ernest Howeltt, of Beaumont, N.D.B., fatally injured, by falling over cliff at East Groais Islands.
August 6, 1929	James Glynn, formerly of St. John’s, accidently killed at Boston.
August 7, 1929	Mrs Elizabeth Pynn, Quirpon, fatally burned.
August 9, 1929	Larry French, formerly of St. John’s, drowned at Seattle.
August 11, 1929	Thomas Cochrane, formerly of Newfoundland, drowned at Canso, N.S.
August 13, 1929	Dorothy Snow, aged 6, of Griquet, drowned.
August 15, 1929	Clifford Thompson, formerly of St. John’s, killed by auto at Port Hope, Ontario. Richard Griffin, 21, killed at Liverpool, N.S.
August 16, 1929	James Bragg, of Cape La Hune, drowned by upsetting dory.
August 19, 1929	Ambrose Collins, falls from tender of engine at Argentia, and fatally injured.

September 2, 1929	Frederick Joyce fatally injured when struck by motor. Mrs John Pearcey, killed at Ammons Cove, near Davis Inlet, by accidental explosion of gun.
September 4, 1929	William Abbott, 54, killed by falling off L.S.P.U. excursion train from Ferryland.
September 6, 1929	Body of William Watts, 11 years, found floating in harbor.
September 8, 1929	Samuel Moulton, formerly of Pouch Cove, killed at Bellington, Mass, in motor accident.
September 9, 1929	Robert Kennedy, formerly of Newfoundland, killed by falling from high building, Boston.
September 11, 1929	Samuel King, Perry’s Cove, killed by lighting.
September 14, 1929	Two brothers named Hewlett, belonging to La Scie, drowned at Gull Island, Cape John.
September 16, 1929	James Butler, Gear Street, instantly killed, through his head coming in contact with telephone pole, while riding in truck.
September 17, 1929	William Walsh, 22, of Salmonier, instantly killed when wheels of truck passed over his body. Arthur Irwin Warren, 2 years old, drowned at Glovertown, by falling into well.
September 23, 1929	Arthur Hunt Shute, Nova Scotia Novelist, killed when plane crashed in lake Manitoba.

October 8, 1929	John J Penney, falls over Bowring’s wharf and drowns.
October 12, 1929	William and Clara Parsons, aged 3 and 5 years respectively, children of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Parsons, Carson Avenue, burned to death when their home was destroyed by fire.
October 17, 1929	John Edwards, Engineer auxiliary schooner Lolanthe, killed on Labrador.
October 27, 1929	George Young, aged 18, accidently killed at Humbermouth, when helping to discharge coal from steamer.

November 9, 1929	Stewart Thornton, drowned from schooner Nicotina, off Fortune Head.
November 11, 1929	Andrew Hynes, English Harbor East, 21, drowned. Isaac Carter and Edgar LeValliant, drowned when motor boat swamps near Port aux Basques.
November 14, 1929	Joseph Locke, 55, Tizzard's Harbor, dies suddenly at logging camp, Great Rattling Brook, Bishop’s Falls. Henry G Barnes, English Harbor, washed off rocks whilst bird shooting, and drowns.
November 16, 1929	Four men washed overboard from ore steamer, while on her way to Sydney.
November 21, 1929	Peter Noel, 5, Alexander Street, fatally injured when hit by motor car. Body of George Dawe, missing for some days, found on the Witless Bay Line.

December 1, 1929	Pilots Noseworthy, Vallis, and Walsh, lost in storm, rendering assistance outside Narrow’s, to steamers.
December 2, 1929	Oliver Osmond, South Brook, electrocuted while working on electric line, Deer Lake to Corner Brook.
December 6, 1929	Five men, Absalom Tucker, Ronald Tucker, George Roberts, Solomon Croucher, Allan Hillier, who left Lance Pidgeon, near Cape Bauld, in motor boat, missing and believed drowned.
December 13, 1929	James Rendell, Flower Hill, found dead on board Dr. Rendell’s yacht.
December 15, 1929	Veronica Hynes of Griquet, and Nellie Murphy of Conche, drowned by falling through the ice in Quirpon Harbor.
December 16, 1929	Thomas McEachern of Jefferies, drowned while crossing over ice on Crabbes River.
December 18, 1929	Squadron Leader A Jones Williams, and Flight Lieut Jenkins, killed in crash of their plane at Tunis, in attempting non spot flight from England to Cape Town.