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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Another Aeroplane Fatality. Bucharest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 5

Lieutenant Carande, while aeroplaning at Cotocini, fell 300ft, and was killed. Add Labour Troubles ? [?]?…

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The Tornado at Regina. 70 KILLED; 150 Injured. Regina

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 5

The Mayor states that the loss of life by the recent tornado is 70, with 150 injured. The surrounding country is untouched. Other parts of the city immediately abutting the…

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Train and Motor Car. Three Killed; Two Fatally Injured. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 2

An express train and motor car came into into collision near Craiova, Bucharest and Profesor Chilot, a distinguised Frenehman and three Politicians were…

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Suspicious "Accident."

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 7

An action by George Davies, baby-carriage manufacturer, and his wife against the F.I.A.T. Motor-cab Company for injuries in a taxi-cab accident last September has…

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Struck a Fence Accident to Aviator Hart

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 2

Mr. Hart, after repairing his biplane after the mishap which happened to him when returning from Parramatta, on Wednesday attempted to get his machine…

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Railway Accidents. . Forty-one Persons Killed. New York, July 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 July 1912 · page 5

The death-roll in connection with the railway disaster at Corning totals 41. Thirteen of the bodies are so far unidentified being badly mutilated…

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Horrible Fatal Accident. Engines and Waggons Kill a Man. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1912 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred about 1 o'clock this morning in the railway coal shunting yards at Port Waratah. An engine and forty loaded coal waggons ran, over an…

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A Dreadful Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 July 1912 · page 1

A dreadful accident occurred on Mr W. Jacobs' farm, Peel section, Goonoo Goonoo on Saturday. A man named A. H[?] who was feeding a chaffcutter,…

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Serious Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 2

An accident of a serious nature happened to the three year-old son of Mr P. M. Wright, on Monday last It appears that the little fellow…

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Railway Collision

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 1

A railway collision took place on Tuesday afternoon on the North Shore line[?] 1.55 train from Hornsby to Mil[?] Point ran into the rear of a goods…

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Another Aviation Fatality. Paris, July 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 2

M. Bebel, an airman, in descending from a flight at Chalons yesterday, underestimated the height of a mist that obscured the earth, and crashed to the ground sustaining…

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Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 4

Mr. Fred Barden met with an accident yesterday afternoon in a simple manner. He was sharpening a hoe, when the stone turned, causing the handle to strike him. In trying to…

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Accident to Submarine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 5

During manoeuvres the submarine D4 in which King George voyaged-under water at Weymouth recently, had her periscope considerably bent through colliding with a…

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Shocking Railway Accident

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 4

A fatal accident occurred early on Tuesday morning in the railway coal shunting yards at Port Waratah. An engine and forty loaded coal waggons ran over…

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Fearful Railway Collision. Forty-one Persons Killed. 50 Other Injured New York

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 July 1912 · page 7

Thirty-four passengers were killed, and fifty others injured when in express collided with the rear of a west-bound Lack-wanna passenger train near Corning…

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Stationmaster Killed Shocking Fatality. Abermain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 July 1912 · page 5

William Keating stationmaster at Abermain, was killed by a trian of empty coal hoppers about eleven o'clock last night. Partio[?]rs are mea[?] but it is stated that…

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The Abermain Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 4

The funeral of tho late Mr. William Keating, stationmaster at Abermain, who was run down and killed by a train of hoppers on Friday night, took place yesterday, and…

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Railway Collision. New York

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 5

thirteen persons were killed and many others injured at a railway collision in Chi[?]. The accident is attributed to the stake of a woman who was signal operator…

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A Sad Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 July 1912 · page 6

Mr. J. C. Bower, of Dochra, Vere, one of the best known, and most highly respected residents of the district, met his death in a tragic manner yesterday. He left…

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Railway Train Collision. Chicago

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 July 1912 · page 5

Thirteen persons were killed, and many others injured, when the mail train crashed into the rear of the overland express and telescoped the cars…

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