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Accidents, 1910

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Harbour Fatality. Girl Drowned. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 2

Middle Harbour was the scene of a sad boating. fatality this afternoon, when a 22 foot pleasure beat, containing eight young people was overturned, with the…

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Found Drowned

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

The body of an unknown woman, aged about 30, was found floating in the water at View Bay this morning…

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Railway Collision at Tarana

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 2

A railway accident occurred at Tarana on Saturday night. No 44 goods train, outward bound from Bathrust, was standing In the loop at the station, and the…

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Stanford Merthyr Fatality. Inquest at Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 3

The adjourned Inquest touching the death of Richard Evans, who met his death in Stanford-Merthyr Colliery on Wednesday last, was resumed at the Kurri Courthouse…

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Colliery Fatality at Neath. Neath. Tuesday. NEATH

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

A miner named John Cusick, about 43 years, of age met his death through a fall of coal ,in Neath colliery this morning. He was, working in a heading in a stooping…

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Serious Shooting Accident. Boy's Painful Experience

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

A lad named Baldwin, aged 16, met with a very painful accident on Sunday, at Bombala. In the morning he went with several companions shooting with a pea-rifle to a place…

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Aeroplane Accidents. a Marvellous Escape. London. 103

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

The collision between Captain Dickson, an English airman, and M. Thomas, a French airman, at Milan, occurred during a competition for the long-distance prize. There…

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Accidents

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last, Mr Chas. Shepherd (19), living, at Warkworth, and employed at Wambo had his left shoulder injured through a horse which he…

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Quarrel Aboard Ship. Watchman Injured and Drowned. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1910 · page 5

A shocking tragedy occurred at Woolloomooloo Bay carly this morning, when Hugo Trenverg (or Trenhey), a ship's night watchman on the cargo vessel Anglo-Bolivian, was…

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Abermain Mine Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 3

An inquest was held at Sharpe's Hotel, Abermain, yesterday, before the District Coroner (Mr. G. Brown), and a jury of six, touching the death of John Cusick,…

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Injured Aviators

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 3

Barnes, the aviator, is recovering from his injuries. The brothers Moranna were aeroplaning at Saint Cloud, near Paris, when they fell. Leon sustained a broken…

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Accidents In Minos

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 2

The frequency of mining accidents is causing some comment (says our Mines RePresentative), more especially amongst those unacquainted with the work, many of whom are inquiring…

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Accidents at Saw Mill

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 2

Two sligt accidents occurred at Messrs Gould Bros.' Execlsior steam saw mills at Singleton at the beginning of this week. On Monday an employee named Claude…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney, Friday afternoon, Burning Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 5

Mrs. Mary King, the victim of the shocking burning accident at Bahnain, died to-day…

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Drowning in the Ganges

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 5

Thousands of pilgrims at Sorori, India, were preparing to bathe in the River Ganges, when the waters rose, and hundreds were drowned…

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Hebburn Colliery Fatality. Inquest at Weston

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 12

An inquest was held at the Criterion Hotel yestreday, before the District Coroner, Mr. touching the death of J.P., and a jury of six, touching the death of William Pollock…

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Naval Disaster, Twenty Bluejackets Drowned. Vancouver, Oct. 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 3

A disaster occurred to bluejackets in the North River, New York. A tender from the battleship New Hampshire capsized in the river, and it, is feared that eight on…

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The Drowning of a Ship's Watchman. a Discharge and a Committal (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 4

Emil Kuchler, aged 26, a German seaman. who had been detained in connection with the death a night watchman named Hugo Treanberg, a Russian…

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Serious Shooting Accident. Boy's Painful Experience

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 6

A lad named Baldwin, aged 16, met with a very painful accident on Sunday, at Bombala. In the morning he went with several companions shooting with a pea-rifle to a place…

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Serious Burning Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 3

Whilst Mrs Mary King, a resident of Balmain, was ca?ying a lighted kerosene lamp across the kitchen she slipped and fell. The lamp was smashed, and…

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