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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

463 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 24

Mining Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1903 · page 2

An explosion has occurred in the Daydawn mine, at Charters Towers one man being killed and another terribly injured…

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Children Drowned

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 2

A ferry boat capsized on Tuesday on the river VVathe, Russia, and twenty out of forty five children on board were drowned…

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A Burning Fatality

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 5

A [?] burning fatality took place at C[?]n on Wednesday night, when the eight year-old daughter of Mr [?] Woods received injuries from…

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Ferry Boat Capsized. Twenty Persons Drowned. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 4

A FERRY boat capsized yesterday, on the river "Warthe, in Russia.- Twenty out of forty-five children who were on bcard, were drowned…

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Wreck of a Steamer. Eleven Persons Drowned. SYDNEY

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 4

THE steamer Oakland foundered off Cabbage Tree Island when trying to enter Port Stephens early on Wednesday morning: She was coal laden,…

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Explosion of a Cap. a Boy Terribly Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 6

ON Thursday afternoon a boy named Gard, 13, whose father is a miner, residing at Grauya (Victoria), was admitted to the Albury Hospital…

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Shocking Tragedy in Melbourne Mother and Child Murdered. Second Child Fatally Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 7

A " Herald" telegram, dated Melbourne, Tuesday, says :— A tragedy of a moat painful kind was brought to light yesterday at the residence of Mrs Elizabeth…

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Mining Mattes. Accident Relief Fund

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 June 1903 · page 3

With the view of considering the advisableness of interviewing the Minister of Mines for the purpose of securing certain amendments and modifications in the Miners Accident Relief Fund Act, a conference…

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[?] Gun Accidents

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 June 1903 · page 3

[?] SINCLAIR, manager of the [?] Central Butter Factory, Met [?] gun accident on Friday [?] He was quail-shooting with…

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Moonan BrooK. ACCIDENTS

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 June 1903 · page 2

A MOONAN BROOK correspondent writes:—An accident of a painful nature befel Mr. J. Mitchell, of Moonan Flat, on Wednesday evening, by which…

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Fatality at Redfern

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 5

LATE on Thursday night on old man about 65 years of age fell off a platform at the Redferm railway station and broke his neck. He was taken to…

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Accidental Retribution

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 2
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Here is an instance where retribution followed close in the footsteps of iniquity. An American who had spent nearly a year in Europe purchased in Germany at 25dols…

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Local and General News. Accident to the Rev, C. Bice

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 2

The Rev, C. Bice, rector of St. Paul's Parish, met with a very painful accident on Wednesday afternoon last. It appears that the Rev, gentleman had been down to…

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Tran Accident. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 5

LAST night, a man giving his name as A. Blom, a resident of Bourke-street, fell whilst endeavouring to board a moving tram in King-street…

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A Death by Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 June 1903 · page 3

An inquest was held to-day on the body of widow, Frances Hynes, found floating in Double Bay. The evidence was that about 12.30 on Sunday morning she was engaged in an altercation with a…

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Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 June 1903 · page 3

Two accidents occurred at Burragorang on Saturday afternoon. A son of J. B. Carlon and felled a tree when the butt kicked back and smashed his left leg practically to pulp from the kane-joint to the ankle…

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Strange Burning Fatality

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 June 1903 · page 2

An infant named Peter M'Coy was fatally burned at his parents' residence, Paddiogton, on Saturday night. The mother has informed the police…

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Collision at Sea

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 June 1903 · page 3

The steamer Insulaire and the steamer Liban, both of Fraissinet and Co., of Marseilles, came into collision off that port on Sunday. The Liban, which was a 3000-ton vessel, sank in 10 minutes, bows…

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Railway Fatality. a Man Mangled

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 June 1903 · page 2

A Man named William Nixon [?] fatally injured on Saturday night [?] being run over at the level crossing it Katomba station. He had been [?]…

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