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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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A Shocking Accident. a Girl's Scalp Torn Away

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 4

An accident of an extraordinary and shocking nature happened on Thursday afternoon to Edith Felloes, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr W. H…

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A Peculiar Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 2

Yesterday a pecularm accident occurred in John-street. Whi[?]e a young man was driving a cart belonging to Mr John Dines loaded with eareasos of sheep for deposit in…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 2

ON Monday morning a painful and somewhat serious accident happened to a woman named Clark, who with her husband and danghter and…

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Latest Cable News. Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 3

The Northern express train dashed into a workman's train at paris, and two of the carriages attached to the former were smashed and twenty-two persons injured…

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A Railway Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 3

During a collision on the Grand Trunk Railway at Murray Hill, Canada, owing to a switchman's error, twelve persons were killed…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 4

Yesterday, a sad fatal burning accident occurred at Bishop's bridge, whereby a little girl named Alice Maud Spinney, eight years of age, daughter of Mr. Harry Spinney, quarryman, of that place…

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Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 3

A wharf labourer named David Davis was working on board the steamer Glen Shiel this morning when a bale of wool fell upon him, seriously injuring his spine…

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A Fatal Accident. Man Killed by the Capsize of a Cart

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 3

A FATAL accident, surrounded by ex ceptionally sad circumstances, occurred on the road between Singleton and Glendon on Monday night last. Mr…

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Terrible Accident at the East Greta Colliery. Three Men Entombed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 November 1898 · page 3

A good many accidents have happened at East Greta colliery of late, but this morning a catastrophe of a more appalling nature than any yet experienced at this mine occurred. a…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 4

ON Monday afternoon a young man named Arthur Claydon. sole surviving sou of Mr. Charles Claydon, of Aberdeen, was thrown from n young horse and received such…

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The Late Driving Accident

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

With reference to the driving accident reported in our issue of the 5th instant, by which a mare belonging to Mr. S. J. Stone. carrier was killed, we are in a position to…

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Shocking Accident at Singleton. a Newcastle Resident Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 11

About a quarter-past eleven on Monday evening Charles Dgby, a middle-aged man, and a resident of Islington, near Newcastle, was killed in sad circumstances at Clydesdale, about two miles from…

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Fatal Burning Accident at Bishop's Bridge

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 6

On Wednesday, a sad fatal burning accident occurred at Bishop's Bridge, whereby a little girl named Alice Maud Spinney, eight yearn of age, daughter of Mr. Harry Spinney, quarryman, of…

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A Shocking Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 13

An accident of an extraordinary and shocking nature happened on Thursday, 10th inst., to Edith Felloes, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. W. H. Felloes, of F. Hoes Weir, Pyramid Creek, Victoria…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

A SAD accident occurred at Bishop's Bridge, Maitland, on Tuesday afternoon, when Alice Maud Spinney, a little girl aged 8 years, was so severely…

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Accidents

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

A painful accident happened this week to a lad named Brooker, son of Mr T. Brooker, of Mirannie. He was attempting to catch a horse, and tripping on…

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Collery Accident Three Men [?] at East [?][?] (By Telegraph.] Maitland

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 5

A SERIOUS cull[?]ery accident happened at East Grets colliery to-day. A bi[?] subsidence occurred and three men named David Gronos Bertie…

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Dreadful Railway Accident. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 5

A shocking railway accident occurred yesterday at Murray Hill, on the Grand Trunk of Canada Railway Twelve persons were killed. The…

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Latest Cable News. Fatal Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 November 1898 · page 3

A Philadelphia express train, during a fog, ran into and killed eleven platelayers…

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Kempsey. a Youth Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 3

A boy named Frank Hutchinson, aged about 14, who was on a visit to his brother here, went to bathe this morning from a private boat at the landing near the Government wharf, in company…

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