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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Motor Accident at Singleton. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 July 1906 · page 5

Rev. E. F. Waddy, the well-known cricketer, met with a painful accident on Friday evening. He wag coming home from a country station, on a motor cycle, and while…

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Sad Shooting Fatality

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 4

Constable M. Miller was unloading his revolver at his home in North Adelaide, on Friday morning, when the cartridge became…

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Wedding Tragedies. Guests Narrowly Escape Drowning

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A wedding at Bairnsdale was followed by a supper at the residence of the father of the bridegroom, of the cast bank of…

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Miner Blown to Pieces. Shocking Accident at Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 3

A shocking fatality occurred at Block in Mine on Monday morning, which resulted in the death of one man. and the injury of another, the former being literally blown to…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 3

At eight o'clock this morning a young man named John W. Ford (24), met with a serious accident at the Balmain coalmine. Ford, who is a trucker, was engaged at…

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Football Accident. Two Men Collide

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 4

Some little time prior to the close of the football match between Auckland City and Glebe Clubs at the Sydney Cricket Ground on…

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Motor Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

A motor accident that might have been attended with very serious results happened to the Rev. E.F Waddy on Friday evening last. It…

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Sad Fatal Shooting Accident near Gundy

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 4

ON Thursday evening (says the Advocate) word reached Scone of a shooting accident of a very sad and painful nature, the same afternoon near…

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A Disastrous Collision London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 2

A disastrous collision has occurred with electric train care between Rome and Fraseate, in Italy. Two people were killed, and 50 injured…

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Rescue From Drowning. Bravery of a Girl

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 4

A plucky rescue was affocted at Watson's Bay on a Monday by a girl named Eileen Kelly, 13 years or age. The girl noticed a lad of three years…

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Wallsend 'Bus Fatality Driver Sentenced to 12 Months

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 1

Harold Robt. Wicks, the driver of a Wallsend bus, who was found guilty of, the manslaughter, of Phillip Carter at the February. Quartor…

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Serious Tram Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 2

This afternoon a man was run down by a tram in Castleraegh-street, near Bathn[?]st-street. Screw-jack had to be used to life the man from under…

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Accidental Death. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 2

At the inquest held to-day upon the body of the railway shunter, Kirby, whos foot had caught in the railway line, points, and who had been fatally…

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Football Accident

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 2

Ac unfortunate accident happened during the progress of the football match between the Auckland and Glebe teams at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday…

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Sad Fatal Shooting Acci­dent near Gundy

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 2

On Thursday evening (says the Advocate) word reached Scone of a shooting accident of a very sad and painful nature, the same afternoon near Gundy, when…

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Motor Accident

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

A motor accident that might have been attended with serious results happened to the Rev. E. F. Waddy on Friday evening last. It appears that he was returning to…

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An Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 6

Mrs. E. Cassey of Kayuga an old and respected resident was thrown out of a sulky on Tuesday last while coming into Muswellbrook, and sustained a fracture of…

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Dreadful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 4

Hubert Galloway, mail boy, aged 17 years, met with a terrible accident at Rothbury yesterday. It appears that the lad was driving a sulky with the mails up a hill, and…

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Bicycle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 4

While Mr. T. J. M. Trader, Postmaster at west Maitland was riding a bicycle up High-street, about six o'clock last evening, he experienced a narrow escape of serious accident. It appears that the…

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