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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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The Denman Motor Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 3

All the painful details of the dreadful motor car fatality that occurred near Denman some months ago are likely to be again' made public In the near future, as…

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British Coal Strike. Further Paralysis of Business. Australian Trade Injured

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 8

[?] on strike spent the [?]tball matches, cours[?]tres, and music halls. [?]olders are laying in…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 2

A serious accident befel a 7-year old son of Mr and Mrs H. Blanch, of Stratford, on Monday afternoon last. The little chap was retuning from…

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Tunnel Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 2

A very serious accident occurred at the tunnel on the second section on Wednesday morning last, when a young man named Belt Hewitt, a native of Cooma, was injured by a…

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Sensational Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 2

All nccident of an unnsual nature occurred early on Tuesduy morning the victim being a well-known Quirindi resident, Albert Allen, who whilst engaged in work preparatory to…

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Mining Accidents. Vancouver

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 5

Seven men were killed through an explosion of gas at the Merut mines, British Columbia. At the Diamond Vale collieries, eleven…

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A Curious Fatality

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 March 1912 · page 2

Leslie Berthold Tipper, aged 13 months, son of a schoolmistress at Kewell (Vic.), was missed for a time, and a search revealed him head downmost in…

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Disaster at Manly Two Greeks Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 4

Two Greek fishermen, Peter Busdas, 30 and Nicholas Pielas, 22, were drowned in the ocean of Blue Fish Point, Manly, shortly after six o'clock last evening Karatadias,…

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Shocking Railway Accident. Young Man's Sad End

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 5

Stanley Asher, a fine, strapping young man, employed as a porter at Tarro, was fatally injured this morning by being crushed between a moving passenger train and the platform, and…

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Accident to Submarine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 4

Submarine A3, which our cablegrams of yesterday state was raised and lowed Into Portsmouth, was sunk on Feb. 3, by a collision with the torpeda gunboat Hazard…

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Aviation Fatality. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 5

Lieutenant Swerle, while aeroplaning at Pan fell from a height of 500 feet, and was killed. A bill providing for the control of mineral…

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The German Coal Strike. Collision Between Police and Strikers

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 2

Berlin, Tuesday.—Thirty-five per cent. of the German co?iers have struck work. Women and children at Essen assembled at the pit-heads and prevented…

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Accident to Rev. J. Costello

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 4

The rector of the parish of Mount Vincent; Rev. J. Costello, while driving on Tuesday evening was thrown out of his sulky, but, happily, escaped with a shaking. The rector…

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Awful Bad Legs. Results of Accidents. Husband and Wife cured By Zam-Buk

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 1

Mr W. J. Ward, of 244, Perth-strèt, [?] Perth, W.A. says:-While [?] in a mine at St. Magnet, W.A, through insufficient light, I made…

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The Tarro Fatality. Accidental Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 5

The circumstances attending the fatal accident to Stanley George Asher, a porter, it the Tarro railway station on Wednesday morning, the 13th instant, were revealed…

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General Cable News. Disastrous Collision. Albuquerque (Canada), March 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 5

Three persons are dead, five missing, and a score injured, as a result of a collision between a work train and a frieght train, one of which dashed into the rear of the…

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Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 3

Mr. H. Parkinson, aged 22 years, second son of Mr. Daniel Parkinson, a well-known resident of the district, sustained a serious accident while bringing a load of timber to…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

Mr Walterus Brown, P.M., met with an unpleasant mishap on Wednesday afternoon last while driving home from Stroud, through his…

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200 Bogus Claims. "Accidents" As Living

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 6

When Ernest Pendrigh, of Scales road, Tottenham, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court yesterday (says the "News" of November 30) to three…

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Shocking Railway Accident. Young Man's Sad End

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 8

STANLEY ASHER, a fine, strapping young man, employed as a porter at Tarro, was fatally injured on Wednesday morning by being…

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