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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1877

47 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3

Painful Accident by Burning

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1877 · page 3

The neighbourhood of the railway goods' shed (says the Bathurst Free Press) was the scene of some excitement on Wednesday morning last, owing to an accident which befel two…

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Quirindi. (From Our Own Reporter.) Serious Accidents

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1877 · page 1

Two serious accidents took place here on Saturday last; one at least of them very nearly proving fatal to the unfortunate fellow who met with the mishap. The…

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Coach Accident.—Committal of the Driver. (Partoral Times, Dec. 15.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 December 1877 · page 6

An accident of a most serious nature occurred to the Hay eoach, on Saturday evening, in Nipier-street, Deniliquin, in consequence of which some of the passengers were seriously…

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Dreadful Shipping Accident at Port Wakefield

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 December 1877 · page 6

The South Australian Register reports that a most distressing accident, involving a serious loss of life, occurred at Port Wakefield on Saturday evening, December 8, shortly before…

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Two Sad Deaths by Drowning

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 December 1877 · page 4

Two deaths by drowning occurred on Tuesday morning last (Christmas Day), in the Hunter River, which were attended with painful circumstances. The first was that of a man named…

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Coach Accident at the Bulli Mountain Pass

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 December 1877 · page 7

The Illawarra Mercury gives the following [?]count of a serious accident which happened to the Campbelltown and Wollongong coach:— On Tuesday last, a very serious accident was…

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Fatal Dynamite Accident at Gympie

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 December 1877 · page 6

The Gympie correspondent of the Brisbane Courier gives the following particulars of the fatal dynamite accident in one of the Gympie mines:—…

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