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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Serious Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 3

Mr. J. K. Mackay, the well-known Australian cricketer, was run over by a motor cycle at Johannesburg, and seriously injured. (Strange to say the above information came…

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Muswellbrook Letter. Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 2

A lad maned Robert Bates, aged about fifteen years was this morning driving some blood horses into Muswellbrook to be trucked at the local railway station. The horses were…

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Pea Rifle Accident. Conflicting Evidence

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 2

At the infquest in Melbourne on George Houghton, the boy who was the victim of a pea rifle accident, percy Houghton, his brother, said…

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Collision Between Carts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 5

Two carts collided at Drummoyne to-day one vehicle capsized, and the occupant, Martha Baker, was thrown on to the roadway, sustaining serious injuries…

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The Injured Lad Bates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 7

Robert Bates, the boy who was seriously injured yesterday, as reported by a horse falling, on him, was last night stated to be progressing favourably in the hospital…

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Submarine Boat Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 5

Lieutenant Hart, commanding submarine C8, [?] Portsmouth, was fatally injured aboard the [?] yesterday. An explosion on the submarine threw him headlong among the working…

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Motor-car Fatality. Driver Committed for Manslaughter

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 5

The inquest concerning the death of Rev. J. W. Gillett, of St. Matthias Church, Paddington, who was run over and killed by a motor-car, at Elwood…

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Accident to a Cricketer. Mackay Injured by a Motor Car. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 4

J. R. M. Mackay, the Sydney cricketer, has been run over by a moter cycle at Johannesburg, and seriously injured…

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J a Miners' Accident Fund. Case from Rix's Creek

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 5

In the Equity Court, Sydney, before Mr Justice A. H. Simpson, an application was made for the payment out of court of the funds of the…

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Medic in a Collision. London, June 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 June 1907 · page 3

The White Star liner Medic, 11,985 tons, in London for Sydney, came into collision in the petroleum tank steamer Turbo, 4134 [?] off the South Foreland yesterday. The…

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Accident at Aberdare

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 June 1907 · page 2

A young man named William Wynn, a machine man, employed at Aberdare Colliery, was badly injured by a fall of coal on Saturday. The coal crushed his left leg, and caused a compound comminuted…

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Mail Train Derailed. Sensational Incident. Several Persons Injured. Werris Creek

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 5

The mail train to Narrabri was derailed in the vicinity or the railway yards at 4 o'clock this morning, two engines and seven carriages, containing about 100 passengers…

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Serious Railway Accident at Werris Creek

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 2

THIS morning, a mishap of a serious nature, though fortunately unattended by any loss of life, befel the North-West mail at…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Railway Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 2

A serious railway accident happened at Werris Creek this morning. It appears that when the north western mail train, which left Sydney last night,…

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The Railway Accident. the Official Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 5

In connection with the peculiar accident to the North-Western mail train at Werris Creek yesterday morning, the superintendent of lines states that the mishap was due to…

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Curious Accident. Railway Guard's Skull Fractured. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1907 · page 3

On arrival last evening of the north-western mail train from Sydney, the guard of the train, named. James Ryan, was discovered on the floor of the guard van in a pool of blood…

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Accident at Cataract. Workmen Crushed to Death

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 June 1907 · page 1

George Kraymborg, known as George Ahearn, met his death under peculiar circumstances at, Cataract Dam works. Kraymborg was in…

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Railway Accidents

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 7

The well-known northern railway guard, James Ryan, who resides at Stan more, met with a rather serious accident, at Singleton on Wednesday night…

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Our Singleton Letter. the Mail Train Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

On enquiry at the hospital this morning we learned that the guard, James Ryan, who was injured on Wednesday night as the North-Western mail was steaming into Singleton…

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Recent Train Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

An inquiry into the cause of the recent railway accident was held at Werris Creek by a number of Sydney officials. A shunter has been suspended pending the result of their…

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