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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

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To-day's News by Wire. Sydney. Found Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1897 · page 5

The body of a man aged between twenty-five and thirty years, was sound floating in Darling Harbour this morning. So far the ramins have not been identified…

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The Fearful Catastrophe in Paris. 200 Persons Killed. 100 Injured. Appalling Scenes. Gallant Deeds of Heroism. London, May 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1897 · page 5

Amongst those who were killed by the disaster at the charity bazaar in Paris were the Duchess of Alengon, the Comtesses Mun, St. Perier, and Bonne-val, and the Baroness Didier, Paris is in mouring…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 1

Charles Hines, the Maitland condemned man, is to be executed on May 21st. He seems to have realised his position, and is very attentive to…

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Tamworth. the Injured Jockey

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 3

The jockey Grace, who was injured in the race for the Jockey Club Cup on Thursday, lies in the hospital in a serious condition. He has recovered [?], but is paralyed on the right side…

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A Fearful Catastrope in Paris. 200 Persons Killed. 100 INJURED. London, May 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 2

White a charity bazaar was being held in Paris to-day a fire broke out, resulting in the death of thirty people, and in the fierce struggle to escape a hundred persons were injured. Eighteen hundred…

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Shocking Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 7

A shocking accident occurred in Ballarat to a boy named Willie Chinnery. The child, who is about 5 years of age, was returning from school at midday, when he essayed to swing himself on to…

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Bombala. a Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 May 1897 · page 5

While a man named John Matthews was proceeding home, accompanied by another man near Bombala yesternight, his horse bolted with him into the bush, and subsequently the unfortunate…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1897 · page 3

An engine driver at the Band Albion Mine, at Ballarat, named Henry Strick, was killed through being pierced in the abdomen by the pumping…

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Sensation. Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 1

An engine-driver at the Band and Albion anne, Ballarat (Vic.), named Henry Strick, was killed on Saturday through being pierced in the…

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A Clergy Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 5

A mysterious case involving the death of a clergyman came under the notice of the police this morning when it was reported a man named Charles Roberts had seen a body floating in Woolloomooloo…

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A Double Fatality. [By Tleegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 3

AN old man named Denis Crouin and a boy named, Edward Fallon were killed this morning through the capsiting of a milk cart at Merewether…

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A Fatal Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 5

The jury at the inquest on the body of a boy named Samuel George, the victim of a tram accident in Pitt-street yesterday, returned a verdict of death form injuries accidentally received, and…

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Fatal Mining Accident. [By Tleegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 2

There was a mining accident at Weine's alluvial claim, Lawsons Plains, Rockley, this morning, when Thomas Prinnable was killed through…

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Accident

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 2

The little daughter of Mr W. M. Waddell, of Benvouue, seven years of ago, sustained a fracture of the right arm on Saturday lost. She was driving a horse through…

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Dynamite Cap Accident

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 4

At about 10 o'clock on Saturday morning a very severe accident befell a yòung girl named Wilson, about 16 years of age, daughter of Mr Thomas…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1897 · page 3

A tram conductor named Matthew Williams, while attempting to remove a postbox from the Surrey Hills tramear just as it was leaving the yard, fell between it and the platform. Before the…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning at Laurieton. MESSRS. H. COPELAND, M.P., AND G. Walters in Danger

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 4

Mr. Henry Copeland, M.P., and Mr. Geo. Walters, J.P., of Coopernook, arrived at Laurieton Friday evening last, on a visit to Mr. J…

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Sensation. Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 1

A boy named O'Donnell, aged 7, the son of Patrick O'Donnell, of Pittowen,Wallsend, died in the Wallsend Hospital from injuries…

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A Clergyman Drowned

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 6

A MYSTERIOUS case involving the death of a clergyman came under the notice of the Sydney police on Wednesday morning, when it was reported…

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A Clergyman Found Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 3

A mysterious case involving the death of a clergyman came under the notice of the police on "Wednesday, when it was reported a man named Charles Roberts had seen a body floating in Woolloomooloo…

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