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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

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Sad Cycling Fatality

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 3

A LABORER named Arthur J. Cullen, aged 32-years, received fatal injuries on Saturday afternoon through coming into collision with a cart in…

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Railway Collision at Warsaw

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 December 1897 · page 3

A goods train came into collision with a passenger train at Warsaw, Poland, and the cars of the latter were wrecked. Eleven persons were killed. The disaster is supposed to have been the result of…

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A Vehicle Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court, East Maitland, to-day, before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., Austin Fitzpatrick sued Andrew Burgess and William Burgess, of East Maitland, for £10, damage done to a buggy in a…

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A Hasty Marriage. Chapter Xxii. Doris Meets with an Accident and an Adventure

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 4

Madame Delmar, the dignified principal of the young ladies' seminary, felt considerably perturbed at the strange turn affairs were taking. After her visitors had taken their leave, she quickly sought…

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Accident on Board a Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 3

The bunkers of the steamer Darmstadt exploded at Bremerhaven, and eleven men were injured. Other damage was slight…

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Prolonged Election Excitement. Drowning Sorrow in the Flowing Bowl. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 5

At the Central Police Court this morning, James Norton, aged 58, described as a saddler, appeared before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., on a warrant issued at the request of his wife…

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Sensational Buggy Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 16

A sensational buggy accident happened at Copper-mine Cutting, on the Thomson River, Victoria, to a buggy which accompanied the gold escort carrying 2000oz. of gold from Walhalla to…

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Fatal Bicycle Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 10

A fatal collision occurred in Cleveland-street, Sydney, on Saturday between a bicycle and a cart. The driver was Charles Towneond, reBidiutr at Waterloo. He was passing along Cleveland-street…

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Fatal Riding Accident. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 4

GEORGE MORRIS, aged 20, a telegraph operator, was thrown from the racehorse Iolanthe and killed. At the inquest on the body to-day, a verdict…

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Pound Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 December 1897 · page 5

The body of a man was fished out of the barbour yesterday, and has since been indentifled as that of Alexander Stewart, a resident of Woolloomooloo…

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Maclean. Found Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 3

The body of a girl named Maloney, reported to be missing yesterday, was found in the river at Maclean this morning. The case was one of suicide…

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To-day's News by Wire. Sydney. a Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 3

A man named George Coleman, employed at Davenport's boot factory, met with a shocking accident this morning. He was engaged removing belting which transmitted power from an overhead…

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Remarkable Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 5

A Chinese cook named Ah See was killed instantaneously at the Central Hotel, York-street, this morning, through being crushed in a small freight lift lending from the kitchen to the dining-room…

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Fatal Accident in a Sewer

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 6

Another fatal sewerage disaster occurred at Balmain, making the second in that municipality within a short period. The miner killed on Saturday was Thomas Seddon, a resident of College-street,…

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A Shocking Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 5

A DISASTROUS runaway, involving the death of a wharf laborer named Alexander Brown, occurred in Sydney off Thursday morning. The runaway was…

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A Painful Accident. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 2

An accident occurred this morning at Ferndale, Lower Botany. An employee named Edward O'Neill was bending over one of the machines…

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A Life of Misery. Terrible Suffering of a Young Lady. Five Years of Torture. Injured Her Back by Falling Down a Flight of Stairs. Gould's Tiny Tonic Pills Score Yet Another Victory

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 10

Miss Holt, who resides at 9 Perkin-street, Newcastle, about five years ago had the misfortune to fall down a long flight of stairs, thereby injuring her back. This injury caused her to suffer from…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 December 1897 · page 1

Mr John Tebbutt's observatory at Windsor was destroyed by fire on Friday. A young farmer named David…

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Secrets of the Harem. Drowning Discarded Ladies

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 December 1897 · page 3

In the Bosphorus, flowing dar, deep, and swift from the Black Sea past the gilded minarets of Constantinople, there is one dread ribbon through its entire length known as the…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 1

A sad death took place at Merewether, Newcastle, this week, D. F. W. Clarke, at the age of 38, died from the effects of a cold which he…

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