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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Aeroplane Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 5

The Archduke Leopold's Salvator's aeroplane collided with that of M. Karl Warchalowski at Neustadt, with the result that M. Warchalowski's thigh was fractured…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 September 1910 · page 2

A young man named Wm. Mediam recently met with a very painful accident through a horse falling on him at Campbell's Hill and crushing his leg. The sufferer has been under the doctor's…

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Parts Aeroplane Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 September 1910 · page 3

M. Parisol, aeroplaning with a passenger over Paris, fell into a street, snapping some lamp posts. The aeroplanists were uninjured…

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Serious Shooting Accident. Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 September 1910 · page 3

A lad named Edward Norman Yates was standing on the foothpath in front of a shooting gallery in Peel-street on Saturday night, when a man was handling a…

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Raid on Native Camps. Nine Killed; 27 Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 5

During Friday night or early Saturday morning a number of natives from the Darlot tribe made a murderous attack on native camps at Laverton and Lancefield…

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Railway Accident in Victoria

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 3

Another mishap occurred at the Bal larat railway station on Saturday even ing. The Stawell train, carrying 12 pas sengers, was backing down to pick up a…

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Late Cables. French Railway Accident. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 3

A serious railway accident occurred yes terday in France. A Cherbourg train left the rails at Vermay, and the driver. stoker, and three were killed,…

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Drowning Fatality at Murrur[?] an Immigrants Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 6

A young man, about 20 years of [?] James Nicol, was accidentally dr[?] River on Saturday afternoon, white ba[?] deceased who arrived from scotland [?]…

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Launch Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 5

It is believed that a launch party of [?] at Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A., have been drowned. Tho launch has not been found…

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Motor Car Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 5

Mr. Albert Hock, a well-known Liverpool cotton broker, has been killed in a motor-car accident, at Hadnet, and his wife was injured…

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Motor Car Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 5

Miss Florence Pa[?], daughter of a :former governor of California, has been killed in a motor car smash at Sankafail…

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Sad Tram Fatality. a Boy's Death. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 5

Two boys were coasting down behr[?] Park in a little box cart this morning, when they were shot over the footpath and on to the tram line, where an approaching car…

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Accident to Railway Guard

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 4

News reached West Maitland this morning that Guard Martin McCann, an old servant of the Railway Department, and well known on the Maitland to Newcastle run, met with a serious accident at…

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Railway Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 5

Mr. Martin P. M'Cann, one of the best-known railway guards in the Newcastle district, was knocked down by an engine at the Fassifern station yesterday morning, and sustained injuries…

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Shocking Tram Fatality at Sydney. Little Boy Killed. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 2

A shocking tram fatality-occurred in Elizabeth-street, near Belmore Park, this morning. It appears three boys were coasting…

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Accident

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 2

Yesterday morning Mr. Norman Price, a youth of about 17, son of Mr R. J. Price, of "Kingswood," was the victim of an accident by which he…

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Drowning Fatality at Murrurundi. an Immigrant's Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 3

A young man, about 20 years of age, named James Nicol, was accidentally drowned in Page River on Saturday afternoon, while bathing. The deceased, who arrived from Scotland about six…

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Railway Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 4

Mr. Martin P. M'Cann, one of the best-known railway guards in the Newcastle district, was knocked down by an engine at the Fassifern station on Wednesday morning, and sustained…

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Sad Tram Fatality. a Boy's Death. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 4

Two boys were coasting down Belmore Park in a little box cart this morning, when they were shot over the footpath and on to the tram line, where an approaching car…

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Spanish Tram Accident. Novelist Electrocuted. London, Friday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 5

Senor Macins Casonava, the eminent Spanish novelist, has been electrocuted through contact with the wires of the Madrid tramway. His was complertely earbonised…

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