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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 3
Also in Singleton Argus

Yesterday morning about 10.30, Mr. Jim Egan, ganger, who is erecting the crusher for the railway at the 4 quarter-mile peg from Dungog, was attending his duties when by…

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Full Speed into a Wall. Two Ladies Killed in Motor Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 5

A motor car catastrophe, resulting in the death of two ladies and serious injury to two gentlemen and a chauffeur, occurred yesterday at sundown between Wiesbaden…

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Sensational Trolley Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2

A somewhat sensational trolley acci dent happened on the railway line on the Singleton side of Kelly Plains last week It appears that three railway…

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Shocking Train Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2

A drover named Albert Wilson, aged 17, was run over by the Adelaide express near Pimpinio on Sunday and killed. It is stated that the deceased, in company…

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Accident to a Boy

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 2

Arthur Southon, aged 6, residing with his parents in George-street, was playing with some other children on Tuesday. In climbing a vine in his own yard ho lost…

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Shocking Tram Accident. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 2

A little girl whoso name is at pre sent unknown, fell out of a moving tram on the Botany road this afternoon, and fractured her skull She died…

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Queensland Lady Drowned. Washed Overboard. London, Thursday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 5

The steamship Marama, which, has just arrived from Vancouver, British Columbia. reports that Mrs. J. Simpson, of Brisbane, Queensland, was washed overboard and drowned in her…

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The Accident to Mr. Alfred Cobb

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 4

Particulars of the regrettable accident to Mr. Alfred Cobb, of of Bona Vista, Campbell's Hill, which occurred in Sydney on Wednesday evening are available, from…

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Serious Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 2

Last week a four-year-old son of Mr. Burley, of Upper Paterson, had a narrow escape from a terrible death. The family were shifting,…

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Full Speed Into a Wall. Two Ladies Killed in Motor Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 October 1909 · page 7

A motor car catastrophe, resulting in the death of two ladies and serious injury to two gentlemen and a chauffeur, occurred yesterday at sundown between Wiesbaden…

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Stupendous Collision. May End the World

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 14

A graphic description of the end of the world because of the collision of some dark stars and the sun, given recently by Professor Percival Lowell in a lecture on…

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Twenty-five Men Drowned. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 4

By the bursting of a dam near Con stantinople 25 workmen were drowned…

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Accident to an Engine

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 4

The mixed train that leaves West Malt land at 8 a.m. for Singleton, was delayed 14 minutes, on Thursday morning, owing to an accident to the engine in the…

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Serious Tram Accident. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 October 1909 · page 4

A wharf laborer named Charles Ives attempted to cross the tram line in Pitt street, near Circular Quay, this morn ing, when ho was knocked down, by a…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 October 1909 · page 2

Mr. J. S. Treweek, the well-known clothier and mercer, met with a painful accident on Saturday afternoon, He was proceeding to his home at Lorn on n bicycle, and when turning Belmore…

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Worst Storm for 40 YEARS. Thousands Killed and Drowned

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 October 1909 · page 1

Hongkong papers by the latest Octo ber mail to Port Darwin by the steamer Eastern report that a severe typhoon de vastated Foochow on September 15. It…

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Accidents with Firearms. How to Avoid Them

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 October 1909 · page 2

The serious loss of life by the careless use of firearms has from time to time caused suggestions to be made that legislation should be provided to mitigate the…

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Accident at Lochiavar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 October 1909 · page 4

Mr. James Doimege, bead teacher of the Public school. Lochinvar, had a narrow escape from serious injury on Sunday evening. Mr. Delmege had been on a visit to Mr. F. Heagney, who resides midway…

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Notable Historical Events, an Awfel Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 October 1909 · page 8

On Tuesday, July 3, 1883, an awful acci-dent, attended The launching of the "Daphne" a coasting vessel that had been constructed for the GlaSgow anil Londbnderry Steam…

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