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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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A Newcastle Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 5

The Marino Court held an inquiry this morning into the collision in Newcastle Harbour between the steamers Warimee and the Archer. The Court, after hearing evidence,…

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Delayed Telegram. Causes Railway Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 5

The circumstances in which Michael O'Donnell, a railway employee, was killed near Cordons railway station, Victoria, were further inquired into by the Coroner and a jury…

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Child Drowned. a Cowardly Spectator

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 1

While playing on the banks of the Yarra at South Yurra (Vic.) on August 5 Carey Marsden, aged 7 years, fell in Sid was drowned. At the inquest on…

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The Weston Railway Fatality. This Inquest

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 12

The district coroner (Mr. Geo. Brown) held an inquest at the Criterion Hotel, Weston, last week touching the death of Peter Mldntyre, who was found dead under a…

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Riding Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 2

A young man named T. Ward, employed by the proprietor of a merry-go-round, was riding a horse down Victoria-street in the vicinity of the Station Hotel last night…

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Motor Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1911 · page 3

James Wilkinson was .remanded at the court, to-day charged with having caused this death of Norman Hall, who was run over ,!>y a motor car it Manly on Saturday…

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Railway Accident in Russia. St. Petersburg

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1911 · page 3

Twenty-five person were seriously injured by a railway smash near Krielec…

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Local and General News. a Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 4

Shortly after six o'clock last evening, Mrs. Fred Jones, who is 77 years of age, and residing in Bulwer-street, met with a painful accident. Whilst proceeding to the kitchen…

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Batavia Battleship Accident. the Hague

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 5

An accident occurred during firing practice on the battleship Hertzhog Hendrick at Batavia resulting in three persons being killed and twelve injured five sevcrety…

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Accident to a Cyclist

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 5

"Major" Taylor, while competing in a half-mile cycle race at Ipswich fell and sustained concussion of the brain…

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A Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 5

A sensation was caused at the review, when the battleship Brennus, in a mist, collided with a steamer and stove a large hole in her bows. There was a panic among the…

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Horse Injured and Sulky Smashed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 4

A horse and sulky, the property of the Very Rev Father O'Gorman, of East Maitland, left in charge of a boy in High-street on Monday afternoon, about 5.20 o'clock, caused a considerable amount of…

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Strange Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

Percy dayman, a married man, died in the Prince Alfred Hospital, under strange circumstances, it appears that while having dinner one day last month he asked his wife…

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Dreadful, Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

George Miller, aged 18, while working in a saw mill at Parkes, wad caught in the belt, drawn into the engine, and had his right leg badly shattered. The leg had to be…

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Peculiar Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 4

The other night an extraordinary accident happened in High-street resulting in the breaking of a plate-glass window through a bolting horse sending his head through it. Another window…

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Remarkable Railway Accident. Erie

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1911 · page 5

It has transpired that the accident caused by the collision of the freight and passenger trains was due to the death of an engine driver at the throttle of his engine. The train…

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Double German Fatality. Berlin, Sept. 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 5

While M. Le Conte, an airman, was flying with Lieutenant Neumann as a passenger at Neuhausen, Munich, the engine of the aeroplane exploded, with the result that the…

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Prevention of Mining Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 5

Mining machinery and safety appliances still offer great scope for improvement. Referring to the recent terrible explosion at Wattstown, "Mabon," M.P., is…

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Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 September 1911 · page 6

While catching a horse at Mabyn Vale on Friday, Mr. S. Charlton, an employee, had his left shoulder dislocated through the horse pulling away. We believe this…

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Delayed Telegram. Causes Railway Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 15

The circumstances in which Michael O'Donnell, a railway employee, was killed near Gordons railway station. Victoria, were further inquired into by the Coroner and a jury at Gordons on Thursday. O'Donnell and two…

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