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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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A runaway Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

The Flower and of john [?] was thrown into a [?]…

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Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1899 · page 3

A trolly collided with a cable car at North Sydney to-day and several passengers who were riding on the dummy were injured bat none seriously…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Accidentally Poisoned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1899 · page 3

A man named Service died this morning from the effects of sulphuric acid which he is reported to bare taken in mistake for something else. Deceased was married and but little over…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 October 1899 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

MR. JOHN SOLES, of Spring Creek, met with a painful accident to his left hand a few days since. Mr. Soles was assisting to take to pieces a wool-press…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Fatal Mining Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 October 1899 · page 3

The miner, Oliver Hickman, who was fearfully crushed by a fall of coal in the Metropolitan Mine yesterday, expired in the Hospital this morning…

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Gun Accident at Goorangoola

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 October 1899 · page 10

Intimation was brought into Singleton on Monday evening about nine o'clock that Master Gordon Jarrett, a 14-year-old son of Mr. George Jarrett, of Glencoe, Goorangoola, had been seriously wounded…

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Singleton. Fatal Gun Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 October 1899 · page 3

The unfortunate lad Gordon Jarret, who met with terrible injuries by means of a gun explosion at Goorangoola last Monday, died in the Singleton Hospital shortly after eight o'clock last…

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A Notoriety Found Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 October 1899 · page 3

About seven o'clock this morning the body of a middle-aged man poorly dressed was found at at Long Bay, having evidently been cast up by the tide. The police were informed, and the body…

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A Revolver Accident. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 October 1899 · page 3

GRO[?]R FRAS[?], employed at Bulkely's stores, [?] accidentally shot himself this morning, A loaded revolver was lying on a box amongst…

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A Seaman Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 October 1899 · page 3

To-day, Frederick Moore, a seaman, who had been missing from H.M.S. Tauranga since Sunday week, was found fiosting in the harbour. Attacked to deceased's belt was an iron bunker cover weighting…

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A Sad Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 October 1899 · page 3

A commercial traveller named Henry Benjamin Loveday was killed at Parramatta this morning. For some days the work of pulling down the old couri house has been going on. This morning a large…

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Fatality at Wickman

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 October 1899 · page 4

ON Thursday morning, shortly before 5 o'clock, Driver W. Howard, Who had just returned from Sydney, after leaving his engine in the cleaning…

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A Shocking Fatality. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 October 1899 · page 4

Mr Henry B. Loveday, a commercial traveller, was killed at Parramatta this morning. While looking at the pulling down of the old court house a…

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A Notoriety Found Drowned. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 October 1899 · page 2

About seven o'clock this morning the body of a middle-aged man poorly dressed was found at at Long Bay, having evidently been cast up by the tide. The police were informed, and the body…

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A Buggy Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 October 1899 · page 4

What might have proved a very serious accident happened to Mr and Mrs E. Sweeney, of Ravensworth, while proceeding to their home from Singleton on Thursday…

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Bungendore. a Terrible Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 October 1899 · page 3

A lad named Michael Nash, sixteen years of age was thrown from a spring cart this morning, and had his neck broken. He was driving a horse…

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Latest Sporting News. Accidents on a Racecourse. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 October 1899 · page 3

In the Trial Handicap at Rosebery Park races this afternoon Rainbow and Jackdaw fell, but their riders escaped with a shaking. The pony Taupo, whilst nearing a gate at…

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Fatal Cart Accident. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 October 1899 · page 3

A DAD named Henry Davis, aged S, residing at Paddington was run over by a cart in Goulburn street this morning. The wheel passed over his…

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Latest News by Wire. [Press Telegraph Association.] Sydney. Another Fatal Revolver Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 November 1899 · page 3

A young man named Frank Herring, who was seriously wounded on Sunday by the accidental discharge of a revolver at the Tempe boatshed, died this morning…

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