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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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The Delhi Wreck. All Passengers Safe. Three Lascars Drowned. Tangier, Dec. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 5

Most of the Delhi's passengers escaped half naked. The natives did their best to relieve them. Three lasears were drowned while taking…

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The Steamer Delhi Ashore. Six Sailors Drowned. Duke and Duchess of Fife Aboard. London, Dec. 13

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 3

The P. and O. steamer Delhi (8000 tons), bound for Bombay, has gone ashore near Cape Spartel, at the extreme north-west of Morocco. The Duke and Duchess of Fife…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. a Gun Explodes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 5

Henry Harper (35) was fatally injured at Box Hill (Vie.) by the accidental explosion of a gun. While Harpor and his employer (an orchardist) were working [?] dray, two…

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Railway Accidents. Collision in Western Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 December 1911 · page 4

A railway accident, fortunately not attended with loss of life occurred near East Perth railway station at 9. 30. on Saturday night. A long goods train from Midland…

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Motor Buggy Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 December 1911 · page 4

Mr. Norman M. Smith writes to a Maitland friend from Singleton stating that on Saturday afternoon Messrs. M. Frith, J. Pascoe and himself were returning from Long Nose Point,…

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Driving Fatality. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 December 1911 · page 2

While driving a waggenette and pair down the Devil's Punch Bowl, near Canowindra, William O'Halloran, aged 35, a storekeeper, was thrown out of tho…

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Railway Fatality Two Little Girls Killed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 December 1911 · page 2

A sad double fatality occurred on the railway line near T[?]ralba on Saturday afternoon, when two little girls, Ada Augusta Ducan, aged nearly 11…

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Railway Fatality. Two Little Girls Killed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 December 1911 · page 4

A sad double fatality occurred on the railway line near Teralba on Saturday afternoon. when' two little girls, Ada Augusta Duncan, aged nearly 11 years,…

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The Fatality at Teralba. Two Girls Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 December 1911 · page 7

The sad deaths of Ada Augusta Dunean and Clara Duncan, cousins, who were killed by being run down by a train near Teralba on Saturday formed the subject of an inquest,…

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A Shocking Accident. Man's Head Cut Off

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 December 1911 · page 4

A shocking 'fatality occurred at the military, loop, Long Bay, on Saturday afternoon, a lalboror namedl Alfred Frankland having the' upper portion of his…

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Fooling with a Gun. a Fatal Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 December 1911 · page 1

Henry Harper (35) was fatally injured at Box Hill(Vic.) by the accidental explosion of a gun. While Harper and his employer (an orchardist) were…

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Shooking Railway Fatality

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 20 December 1911 · page 2

A double fatality occured on the railway line near Teralba on Saturday, when two little girls were dashed to death by a passing train…

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The Olympic-hawke Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 December 1911 · page 5

In connection with the recent collision between the liner Olympic and H.M.S. Hawke, the Court has held that the former was responsible for the accident…

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Sad Case of Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1911 · page 3

A sad bathing fatality occurred yesterday afternoon in the river, at the rear of the fire station. A boy named Cecil Norman Kenny, aged seven years and 11 months, was…

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Drowning Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 3

At the inquest on Wednesday afternoon, on the boy, Cecil N. Kenny, who was drowned that day in the Hunter River, a boy named Benjamin Singleton, who was in the…

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Railway Accidents. Collision in Western Australia

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 11

"A railway accident, fortunately not attended with loss of life/ occurred near East Perth railway station at 9.30 on Saturday, night. A long goods train from Midland…

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Fatality at Newcastle. Two Little Girls Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 11

A fatality occurred on the railway line near Teralba on Saturday afternoon, when two little girls, Ada Augusta Duncan, aged 11 yours, and her cousin, Clara Duncan,…

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All Passengers Safe. Three Lascars Drowned. Tangier, Dec. 15

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 2

Most of the Delhi's passengers escaped half naked. The natives did their best to relieve them. Three lascars were drowned while taking…

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Fatality at Caloundra. Two Men Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1911 · page 5

A double drawing fatality occurred at Calsurdra (Q.) on Monday morning. The victims were Francis Pickering Hebbel, 38 years of age, hand teacher at the Lagoon Pocket School near…

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Fire Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1911 · page 5

During a fire at Bethnal Green a woman jumped from a height of 60 feet with her child and was killed. The child was unhurt…

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