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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Auckland (New Zealand.) Three Men Drowned

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

There men were drowned by the capsize of a boat during a squall at Coromandel Harbour yesterday…

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Terrible Fatality. a Woman Burned to Death. Miraculous Escape of Children. Wellington

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

A frightful burning accident occurred here on Saturday, a little after midnight, when a woman named Russell, living on the bank of the Macquarie River, lost her life. People…

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Boating Fatality. Auckland

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

THERE men were drowned yesterday by the capsize of a boat in Coromandel Harbour, during a Squall…

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Terrible Fatality. WELLINGTON

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

A FRIGHTFUL burning accident occurred here on Saturday, a little after midnight, when a woman named Russell, living on the bank of the Macquarie…

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Shocking Fatality. "Woman Roasted to Death

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 3

A FRIGHTFUL burning accident occurred at Wellington on Saturday, a little after midnight, when a woman named Russell, living on…

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A Boat Capsizes. Two Persons Drowned

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 3

A BOATING fatality occurred at Lake Macquarie on Sunday afternoon, by the capsizing of a sailing boat with a fishing party of nine persons during…

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The Accident to Mr. Gordon

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

In our last issue we referred to a serious accident that happened to Mr Alfred Gordon, boh of Alderman K. Gordon, of this town. Mr Gordon' slipped from a…

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Fatal Burning Accident. Death of an Old Resident Of. East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 5

About Midnight last night the firebells of East Maitland were rung to give warning of a fire in High-street. A number of people ran up the hill, and it was found that the…

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Found Drowned

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 2

On Sunday morning the body of a man named Frederick Corlette, a tailor, in the employ of Mr. Frank Budden, was discovered in the river not far from the old water works…

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Accident to a Workman

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 4

As Donald Smith, one of the employees at the Ex[?]lsior Steam Saw Mills, on Tuesday afternoon was working at what is known as the shaping machine, he [?]…

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Mail Coach Accident. Exciting Experience

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 5

A BRISBANE telegram of Tuesday states that the mail coach from the township of [?] capsized while crossing the Calliope River. The…

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Shocking Fatality. Woman Roasted to Death

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 2

A frightful burning accident occurred at Wellington on Saturday, a little after midnight, when a woman named Russell, living on the bank of the Macquarie…

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Boating Fatality. Two Persons Browned. Newcastle, Monday afternoon

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 12

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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Terrible Fatality. 'A' Woman Burned to Death, Miraculous Escape of Children. Wellington

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 12

A frightful burning accident occurred here on Saturday, a little after midnight, when a woman named Russell, living on the bank of the Macquarie River, lost her life. People…

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Tried and True. CHAPTER I. a Frightful Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 16

Just at sunset, one bright spring day, the car that plies up and down the inclined plains leading from the foot of Main-street up the hills to the Zoological Gardens of Cineinnati, started to make…

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Fatal Burning Accident. Death of an Old Resident Oe East Mainland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 6

About midnight on Tuesday the firebells of East Maitland were rung to give warning of a fire in High-street. A number of people ran up the hill, and it was found that the…

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Railway Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 3

Owing to the wind extinguishing a signal flight a collision between two trains was caused on the pore Marquette railway, Michigan. Eighteen persons were killed, and…

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Another Climbing Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 3

Mr. Goodall, the Keswick journalist, who in September recorded the Scawfell disaster, when four gentlemen scaling the cliff fell and worn killed, has been himself killed…

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A Boy Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 3

A lad named Cecil Gow, aged 11, was drowned in the Nepean River last night, in sight of his parents…

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Collision in Bass Strait. Xmas Morning on the Ocean Vessels in Collision-

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 1

INFORMATION was received at Melbourne on Saturday morning that a collision resulting in the loss of two lives, had occurred between the…

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