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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 September 1907 · page 4

A voting man named James Heppurn employed at Neath Colliery, on the South Maitland coalfield, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital this afternoon, in an unconscious…

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An Injured Optic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1907 · page 2

It is not known so for what the extent of the injury is which the unfortunate lad. Don Pender, received to his eye yesterday. Dr. R. G. Alcorn, who treated the lad, states that…

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Our [?] Brook [?] the Fatal Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1907 · page 6

The very sgd railway accident, which caused the death of Joseph Short Fenwick, a fine young man, between 21 and 22 years of age was naturally the cause of much sympathetic…

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Neath Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1907 · page 2

It transpires that the young man James Hepburn, who was admitted to the Maitland Hospital yesterday afternoon from the Neath Colliery, is suffering from a…

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Fatal' Railway Accident. Porter Caught Between Buffers of Trucks

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 September 1907 · page 2

A shocking accident, resulting in the death of a young man employed as a temporary hand, occurred in the yard at the local railway station on Saturday…

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Neath Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 September 1907 · page 4

Upon being made at the hospital this afternoon regarding the condition of the young man James Hepburn, who was injured at Neath Colliery on Monday, it was…

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Local and General. Heath Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 2

It was ascertained on inquiry at the Hospital this afternoon that the young man, James Hepburn, continues to improve slowly…

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Accidental Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on the body of Iva Crawford, aged 9, who died from burns due to her clothes catching fire. It appeared that…

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Accidents

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 2

An accident, which might have been attended with serious results, happened to Mr. George Bond on Wednesday morning. It appears that young Bond in company…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 5

Ada Speares, aged 23, met with a painful accident this morning. She was operating a paper-cutting machine in Dillon, Burrows, and Company's factory, when her left hand slipped…

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Motor Boat Accident. a Lady Drowned

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 3

Dr Rawson, director of education for the county of Worcester, recently purchased a new motor-boat, and took it for Its first spin on the Severn yesterday…

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Tug Boat Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 5

A tug boat at Dusseldorf, Prussia, passing a larger tug towing barges, became caught in the tow rope and sank in a few seconds, drowning 16 persons…

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Aberdare Mine Fatality. Coroner’s Inquest

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 3

A coroner’s inquest, which was begun on Thursday afternoon, and adjourned to the 31st August, was continued on Saturday, touching the…

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Drowning. How It Feels. By a Resuscitated Doctor

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 3

It falls to the lot of few medical men to be claimed by Davy Jones and ye to Slip through his fingers. Such an experience is never to be forgotten…

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Midnight Collision in a Fog. Every Woman Lost

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 10

The small wooden steamer Sen [?] rammed and sank the iron steamship [?] 2750 tone five times her tonnage off the coast of Northern California at…

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Serious Accident. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 4

A young, woman named Ada Speares met with a serious accident this morning. She whs operating a paper-cutting machine, when the knife nearly…

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Accident at Railway Station

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 4

On Thursday last an accident occurred at the Singleton Hailwny Station. James Harbourne, a railway porter, was engaged in shunting operations, and…

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Accident at East Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 4

A miner named James Lindsay, an uncle of the unfortunate young man, John Lindsay, who last his life in the East Greta colliery recently, met with a painful accident in the same pit on Saturday…

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Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 2

'A' man named George Grainier, a coal miner by occupation, was killed at South Greta last evening, through being run oyer by a train of skips. The family occurred…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Subsequent Sudden Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. James Johns, of Kadina, South Australia, left that town by special train on Saturday afternoon with the intention of visiting Adelaide. Just as the train arrived, at…

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