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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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The Injured Aeronautist

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 5

Mr. S. F. Cody who met with serious injury through the collapse of his aeroplane at Aldershot, is progressing favourably…

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Excitement at a Circus. Several People Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 5

On Saturday night Wirth's circus attracted the largest house seen in Quirindi. About the second act considerable excitement was caused through the collapse of…

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Miners Accident Relief Fund

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 4

The annual report of the Miners' Accident Relief Board has just been presented to Parliament, and it is an interesting document, affording particulars of an exceedingly…

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Late News by Wire. Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon. Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 5

Mr. R. M. Gibson, Police Magistrate at Wyalong, died from injuries sustained through being thrown out of a sulky…

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Serious Colliery Accident. Boy Badly Injured. Aberdare

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 June 1910 · page 2

A youth named Joyner was severely injured at Aberdare colliery at 3.30 this afternoon. He was trapping in the mine, when he was struck by a couple of…

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A Missing Man. Believed to be Drowned

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 June 1910 · page 4

It now appears certain that J. Stolz, who went outside the Heads in a light skiff last Sunday week, and has not since been met with an accident. It was…

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Accident

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 June 1910 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon, a lad was cycling along John-street, with the five year-old child of Mrs W. Duggan, of George-street, seated behind him on the…

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Accident at Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 6

Mr. G. Cowman, manager for Messrs. Lce and Co., at Kurri Kurri, met with a painful accident on Sunday afternoon. He was cleaning a small revolver, when, I…

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Serious Colliery Accident. Boy Badly Injured. Aberdare

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 8

A youth named Joyner was severely injured at Aberdare colliery at 3.30 this afternoon. He was trapping in the mine, when he was struck by a couple of…

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Excitement at a Circus. Several People Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 5

On Saturday night Wirth's circus attracted thE largest house seen in Quirindi. About the second act coinsiderable excitement was caused through the collapse of…

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Accident at Hebburn Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 4

Alfred Difford, 15 years of age, was seriously injured at Hebburn colliery at about 2.15 p.m. yesterday. Difford who is a spragger was engaged on the pit top, when by some means be slipped and…

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Miners' Accident Relief Fund

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 4

The annual report of the Miners' Accident Relief Board has just been presented to Parliament, and it is an interest ing document, affording particulars of an exceedingly…

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Rheims Aviation Meeting. a Sad Fatality. London, July 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 5

M. Wachter's wife and their five-year-old daughter witnessed the accident to him, which resulted in his death. When in midair the wing of his monoplane…

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Train Door Swinging. Accident to a Child

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 8

Through a door on a railway carriage being left open, a little girl as hurt on Monday night on the train from West Maitland to Sydney. The train as travelling between Awaba and…

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Terrible Accident at the Mines. Child Fearfully Burned. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 4

A little girl named Mary McAlister, about six years of age, daughter of Mr. J. McAlister, of Stanford-Merthyr, was terribly burned this morning. The child was…

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Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 4

James Quinn, lighthouse-keeper at [?]ing Point, near Port Macquarie thrown out of a buggy, and killed…

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Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 2

Mr H. H. Pender of Wollombi the se lected Labor candidate for the Singleton electorate, met with an accident his return last week to Wollombi from…

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Late News by Wire Sydney, Wednesday after Shocking Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 4

A man named Elgale met with [?]ing death at the North mine, Bro[?] this morning. He was employed [?] to a lift, when he was suddenly [?]…

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Railway Collision in Ohio. Thirty-one Bodies Recovered. London, July 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 5

A passenger train at Dayton, Ohio, came into collision with a freight train, whose engine crashed through a smoking car of the passenger train and a car filled with…

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American Independence Day. Precautions Against Accidents London, July 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 5

American Independence Day was celebrated in London. Many American cities limited the fireworks portion of the celebration to an…

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