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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Fatal Railway Collision. Passengers Kiled. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 2

A fatal railway collision has occurred on the Pere Parquette railway, near Salem, Michigan, North America. An excursion train…

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Accident to Mr. M. Markham. the Victim in a Serious Condition

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening last (says the Inverell Argus), somewhere about the hour of 7.30 o'clock, Mr. M. Markham, a well-known…

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Remarkable Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 4

A few days ago a peculiar accident happened to H. Carrick, son of Mr J. J. Carrick, manager of the Coalcliff colliery, Clifton. He was…

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Terrible Collision at Sea. 69 Persons Drowned. London, July 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 5

A collision resulting in the wreck of a large passenger steamer and many deaths has occurred off Eureka, on Humboldt Bay, in Canada…

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Three Men Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 2

Through the explosion of a boiler at Everington's sawmill, Liverpool, to day three men were injured, including Peter Everington, who was severely…

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Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 4

About half-past 10 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Walsh, senior, of Dagworth, met with a serious accident. Slid was seated in a sulky opposite the post office, when the…

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Love and Mystery. a Captivating Story. Chapter V. an Accident and a Renewal of Acquaintanceship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 2

When Dorky descended to the parlour, she found it in possession of three children—a sturdy boy of about eight, a pretty, fair-haired miss of live, and a toddler of three…

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Collision at Sea. Hundred Persons Drowned. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 2

A collision, resulting in the wreck of a large passenger steamer and many deaths, has occurred off Euroka, on Humboldt Bay, in Canada…

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Two Men Injured. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 2

Two men, John Boyle, laborer, and John Lawler, carter, were soriously injured this afternoon by a fall of earth at some new…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 3

A lad named Charles Spotwood was working at a stamping machine at Leigh's printing works to-day, when his right hand was caught and badly crushed, necessitating the…

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Accident

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 2

An accident happened to Mr Amos Gould at the Excelsior Steam Saw Mills on Tuesday, by which ono of his fingers was badly hurt. It appears that…

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Accident

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 26 July 1907 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

While engaged turning an engine at the railway turn table at Wingen a few days ago, Mr.T.Davis had the misfortune to get his right foot jammed between the…

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Terrible Collision at Sea. 69 Persons Drowned. London. July 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 3

A collision resulting in the wreck of a large passenger steamer and many deaths has occurred off Eureka, on Humboldt Bay, in Canada…

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"Kidnapped" Baby's Fate. Found Drowned

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 7

The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote from New York, on May 4th: Horace Marvin, the four-year-old boy…

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Newcastle. Accident at Sea

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 5

Some excitement was caused along the waterside this morning by the unexpected return to port of the Italian barque Firth of Dornoch, which left here on Tuesday. It…

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Serious Shooting Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 5

A young man named Hilton Blackett, white out shooting at Murray's Flat, near Goulburn, met with a serious accident. He put his hand over the muzzle of tho gun, when the charge exploded,…

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Collision in Mid-ocean

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 July 1907 · page 5

On July 15 the American liner Micetonka came into collision with the suiting vessel Sterling in mid-ocenn. The Sterling lost her ,jibboom and her how was seriously damaged. She…

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Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 July 1907 · page 5

Whilst riding along Kent-street on his Ponv on Saturday afternoon, Master Erie Bennett, the youngest son of the Mayor and Mayoress of Singleton, was violently thrown…

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A Serious Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 July 1907 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon, an accident of a serious nature occurred to Master Eric Bonnett, the son of Mr and Mrs F. A. Bonnett, Mayor and Mayoress…

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