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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Washed Overboard. Seaman Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 13

The body of John Johnson an able seaman on board the steamer Cooloon, which came into Byron Bay on Saturday morning was brought ashore on Sudnay…

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Tiger's Injured Dignity

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 14

Many stories have been written of the remarkable memories possossed by certain animals. The elephant, for instance, has been credited with having waited for years…

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Surf Fatality. Exciting Rescue Efforts

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 10

Storm Bay Beach Kiama, was on Sunday afternoon the scene of a bathing fatality. Shortly after 1 o'clock Mr. an Mrs. John Pollock, and daughter, aged about 13, went…

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Double Fatality. Salonika, April 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 5

A Greek lieutenant and a passenger were killed while aeroplaning here…

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Mysterious Fatality. Prisoner with Fractured Skull

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 14

The death of John M'Lean, a middle-aged Minn, who wis found unconscious in the exercise yard of the Central Police Station on Thursday morning was reported to the City…

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Floor Collapses in Sydney. Man Killed and Two Others Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 5

Dennis Stapleton (26), who lived in Abererombie-street, Redfern, was killed and James, Nicholls (38), of 40 Rose-street, Leichhardt, and James Tilley (38), of 133…

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Collided with Tram. Man Seriously Injured. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 4

Thomas Lavis, clerk, was cycling down Liverpool-street this morning when he attempted to pass a tram on the wrong side…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 2

Mr. Harrie Cox met with a painful accident on Tuesday last. It appears that he was engaged doing something, near the cellar door at M. Campbell…

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Balloon Accident. Paris, April 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 5

Four officers and a civilian were Killed owing to an accident to a spherical balloon at Villiers-sur-Marne, near Paris. The occupants of the balloon were seen to be in…

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Terrible Accident Near Glen Innes. Man Cut to Pieces

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 11

News of a terrible railway fatality was received in, Glen Innes yesterday. A railway fettler named James Ford, living at Yarraford, was run over about 4 a.m. by…

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Aviation Accidents. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1913 · page 3

While Captain Vinson and another naval officer were monoplaning at Sheerness, the machine crashed to the ground. Captain Vinson was seriously injured, and the…

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Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 4

Mr. Jackson, a resident of Cessnock, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital, this morning suffering from a compound fracture of the right leg, caused by a full of…

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Motor Fatality. Paris, April 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 April 1913 · page 5

A motor car skidded while crossing a bridge, and fell into the Seine. A governess and two children of Madame Duncan, the famous dancer, were drowned…

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A Pathetic Sequel. Alan's Foot Amputated; His Mother Badly Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 April 1913 · page 2

Thomas Kelly, 20 years of age, who arrived at Wodonga railway trucking sards with a ca?ie train from Gippsland on Saturday morning, had his left…

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Aviation Accident. Man Incinerated (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 April 1913 · page 2

A Russian aviator was flying with a passenger at Turin (Italy), when the motor exploded. The passenger was incinerated, and…

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Motor'car Fatality. Berne, April 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 5

A motor car containing Dr. Duhois, his wife, child, and a friend, was prucipitated from a parapet at Flourier, and fell a distance of 25ft into the river, [?] the occupants…

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Motor Car Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 2

The experience of the driver and occupants of the motor car which collided with the railway gates one night last week were somewhat…

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General Cable News. Aeronautic Accidents. London. April 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 5

Paymaster Berne, a naval airman, was conversing with Lieutonant Lushington, who was about to make an ascent at Eastchurch yesterday, when the engine of the acroplane…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 4

A remarkable escape from being drowned in a water hole at East Greta was experienced yesterday by Clifford Allen, son of Mr. James Allen, of East Greta. The little…

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Driving Fatality. Business Man Killed. Quirindi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 5

Last night, Victor Shotter, 43 years, proprietor of a local musical establishment and agent for Paling's, was killed on Gaspard Road. Yesterday morning he went out in…

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