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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1870

27 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

Fatal Gun Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 November 1870 · page 5

An inquest was held the other day on the body of Mr. Edward Kaye Jupp, aged twenty years, a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, who was accidentally shot. Mr. Edmond Barry…

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Fearful Railway Accident in Ireland

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1870 · page 3

The following details of that terrible railway accident on the Cork and Limerick line, which has unfortunately proved fatal, may be considered as authentic:—"The catastrophe…

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Railway Accident in Warwickshire

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 5

The Irish mail train from London was on the 14th September precipitated into the river near Tamworth. Three lives were lost, and several persons severely injured…

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Four Young Girls Drowned in Wisconsin

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 4

Some girls, pupils of the village school, taking a walk on Sunday afternoon along the river bank, overtook a boat in which was Patrick Devine, brother of one of the young…

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Fatal Boat Accident. (From the Ha[?]ke's Bay Herald, Nov. 1[?])

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1870 · page 4

A feeling of deep gloom has been cast over the community by a melancholy accident which occurred last evening, by which, out of a pleasure party of six who left the town in a boat in the…

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Terrible Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 3

A very shocking accident occurred the other day, at Bilston, in Staffordshire. John Nash, horse-slaughterer, boils down horseflesh, preparatory to sending it to the London market, in…

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Fatal Accident at Manchester

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1870 · page 4

Early one morning last week a portion of the upper floor of Mr. R. Johnson's weaving-shed in Portugal-street, Manchester, gave way, and, with the machinery which had stood upon it,…

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