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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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A Girl Drowned. Gallant Effort Tp Save Her, Wellington

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1903 · page 12

While a party of boys and girls were precnicking on the Macquarie River at Wellington yesterday, one of the boats capsizeds, and a girl named Flanagan, aged 15 was…

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A Fatal Boating Accident. Three Lives Lost

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1903 · page 10

gA fatal boating accident occurred on Tuggerah Lakes on Saturday evening, when three Wayong resident were drowned. A party, consisting of George Williams and his two…

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The Very Latest Cables London, Sunday afternoon. a Railway Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 December 1903 · page 3

The Scotch express train came into collision with and wrecked a goods train at Carlisle, The tender, a truck and a carriage were smashed to atoms, and the rest…

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Newcastle. Another Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 December 1903 · page 3

Patrick Reeves, an old man, was drowned this morning at Lake Macquarie through falling overboard when stepping from the launch Foster. The body was recovered…

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An Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 December 1903 · page 5

Ernest Caunl, commanding the Mohawk, sustained a compound fracture of the thigh, but is doing well…

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Greek Steamers in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 December 1903 · page 3

The Greek steamers Pylaros, 310 tons, and Assos, 400 tons, came into collision off ithaca. The second-class cabins of the Pylaros were damaged severely, and were…

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Fatal Steam Accident. a Man Scalded to Death. Two Others Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 December 1903 · page 3

A dreadful explosion occurred shortly before 10 o'clock this morning on the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Innamineka, while that vessel was lying at the Colonial…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Double 'Drowning Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 December 1903 · page 3

Particulars of the drowning at two boys named James McLelland and Hugh Munro, at Campbelltown, show that they were going home from school, and went to bathe in…

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Fatal Steam Accident. a Man Scalded to Death. Two Others Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 3

A dreadful explosion occurred shortly before 10 o' clock this morning on the Adelaide Steamship Company 's steamer Innamincka, while that vessel was lying at the Colonial…

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Perils of Ballooning. Terrible Accident at Buda-pesth

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 3

While the balloon Turul, the property of the Hungarian Balloon Company was being inflated at Buda-Pesth recently, it suddenly…

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Perils of Ballooning. Terrible Accident at Buda-prsth

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 1

While the balloon Turul, the property of the Hungarian Balloon Company was being inflated at Buda-pesth recently, it suddenlymember…

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Fearful Blasting Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 December 1903 · page 3

Early this morning A quarryman named George Hammond, aged 45. employed at Williams quarry, Ryde, charged a hole that failed to go off, when the fuse was ignited…

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Serious Blasting Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 December 1903 · page 2

There was a serious blasting accident this morning at a quarry in the Gladesville-road, when a charge of powder missed fire. A workman…

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Fatal Railway Accident. NEWCASTLE, Wednesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 December 1903 · page 5

At Adamstown this morning Mrs. M. M. Hetherington, the wife of William Hetherington, a miner, living in Edden-street, Adamstown, was knocked down by the 9.20…

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A Collision at Sea

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 December 1903 · page 3

The Natura collided with an unknown vessel and arrived partly dismantled, at Lisbon, with seven inches of water in her main hold…

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Fatal Railway Accident. a Woman Killed Instantly. SYDNEY

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 December 1903 · page 3

At Adamstown this morning Mrs M. M. Hetherington, the wife of William Hetherington, a miner, living in Edden-street, Adamstown, was knocked…

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The Railway Fatality

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 7

IN our last issue it was briefly stated that a fatality had occurred on the railway line near Adamstown on Wednesday, whereby Mrs Mabel…

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Fatal Railway Accident. NEWCASTLE. Wednesday afternoon

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 7

At Adamstown this morning Mrs. M. M. Hetherington, the wife of William Hetherington, a miner, living in Edden-street, Adamstown, was Knocked down by the 9.20 pas…

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A Serious Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 4

On Monday last, Mr Alfred Gordon. 20 years of age, and the son of Alderman R. Gordon, of this town, met with a very serious accident at Morannie, about 20…

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Boating Fatality. Two Persons Drowned. Newcastle, Monday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 December 1903 · page 5

The sailing boat Percy Pickles was out on Lake Macquarie with a fishing party of nine yesterday afternoon, when the little craft was overturned by a violent squall off…

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