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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Found Drowned. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 3

The body of a hum fished up from the bed of the Yarra in Melbourne has been identified as the caretaker of the dredge William Maron, who had been missing four…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 2

Whilst working the circular saw at Wolstenholme's sawmills this morning, Mr. Frederick Wyborn, of Lorn, met with a painful accident to his right hand. Yesterday his hand came in…

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Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

Two accident cases were admitted to the Dangar Cottage Hospital on Tuesday. Mrs. H. Monkley, wife of the lodgekeeper at Barrona, was driving with a son in…

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Motor Cars Collide. Four Persons Injured. Driven Through the Glass Shield

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 4

The motor cars of Messrs. F. W. Fairbairn, of Sandringham, and Victor H. Gard, of South Melbourne, came into violent collision on the St. Kilda-road with…

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Collision Off Barrenjoey. Fiji Government Yacht Damaged. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 4

While making for Sydney, at 2 o'clock this morning, the Fiji Government yacht. Ravadi, collided with an unknown sailing vessel off Barrenjoey, and came into…

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Floods in Europe, Many Persons Drowned. (By Cable). Buda-pest

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 4

Eighty persons were drowned when the Neva River overflowed Its banks at Buda-pest. The loss to property is enor hous. Twenty towns have been…

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Disaster in a Colliery. Several Miners Injured. London, June 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 2

A violent shock occurred in Golsonkirchen, Westphalia, apparently following an explosion in the shaft of No. 3 Consolidation coal mine. There were 400 men…

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Aeroplane Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1910 · page 3

While Herr Robi was flying on his aeroplane at Stettin, at a height of 250ft, his machine made a plunge, turned a somersault, and fell to the ground. Herr Robi was fatally curshed,…

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Railway Collision in France. Twenty Persons Killed. London, Sunday night

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1910 · page 3

The Paris-Granville express came into collision with a show train standing at Villepreux, westward of Versailles. The carriages were telescoped. The engine was derailed. The…

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Floods in Europe. Ruin in Hungary. Over a Thousand People Drowned. London, June 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1910 · page 3

The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that over 1000 people were killed in the floods in Hungary. The loss of life was particularly heavy at Banat, in South…

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A Steamship Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 5

A collision has occurred at Holyhead. The steamer Yews sank the Larochele, and 11 persons were drowned…

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Explosion at Sydney. Youth Severely Injured. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 3

Raymond Heaydon, aged 18, while lighting a fire in the Railway-Medical Officer's surgery, Phillip-street, Sydney, this morning, poured some-naphtha on…

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Motor Cars Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 5

Professor Kettle, a member of the House of Commons, has sustained serious injry ina motor car accident…

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Collision at Sea

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 2

Ten members of the crew of the steamer Larochelle, which collided with the steamer Yewes, were drowned. The Yewes sank in a few minutes…

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Motor Car Accident. Reckless Road Racing. London. Tuesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 5

Several motor diligeneas, returning from a fete at Unguera, Portugal, raced down a hillside, and two of the cars came into collision, with the result that five persons were killed,…

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Motor Accident in Dublin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 5

In the motor accident at Dublin it was Mr. Purcell, a resident of Dublin, and not as first announced, Professor Kettle, M.P. (Nationalist), who was injured…

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Aeroplanist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 5

Mr. S. F. Cody has been injured through the collapse of his aeroplane at Aldershot…

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Collision at Sea

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 9

The steam yacht Ravadi, belonging to the Fiji Government, arrived at Sydney with her bows badly battered, and the stem twisted. The vessel off Barrenjoey at 2 a.m. on Friday came…

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Floods on the Continent Over a Thousand People Drowned London, June 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 6

A cloud burst at Krassos, Zorney county, Hungary. resulting in floods from, which 156 bodies have been recovered, and it is feared that may more have perished, as…

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