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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Motor Car Collision. One Man Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 2

A shocking motor-car accident [?] on the occasion of the Northern[?] races at Dalby (Q.), yesterday. A motor car driven by Norman samuel…

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Gas Explosion. Four Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 7

Residents in the vicinity of Merton-street, Rozelle, Balmain, were startled by a loud explosion at No. 35 Morton-st. on Tuesday night, and running to the scene found that…

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Terrible Accident. Man Killed at Long Bay

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 6

A laborer in, the Public Works Department named Charles Bolchor, aged 19, met with a terrible accident while on duty in the open cutting, Long Bay…

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Engines in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 5

News has just leaked out that a collision occurred between two engines at the Central Railway Station yesterday morning. Both were thrown from the rails. The damage…

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Aviation Fatality. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 5

Lieut. Bellini, an army aviator, has been killed by a fall while flying at St. Cyr…

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General Cable News. London, May 3. a Cricketer's Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 5

J.H. Board, the Gloucestershire cricketer, broke one of his legs aboard the steamer Atawa…

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Fatal Rifle Accident. a Countess Shot. London, May 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 5

The body of Rose, Countess of Cottenham, was found in a wood in Oxfordshire, out Friday, and an examination proved that she had been shot, The deceased was an expert rifle…

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Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 5

A serious accident occurred near Uralgurra, Upper Macleay. Mr. Le Pettit's car was on it way to Armidale, when the Rev. Jas. Watson,…

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Railway Man's Adventure. Accidentally Handcuffed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 3

While meddling with a pair of handcuffs at work on Friday, a young man, employed in the carriage and waggon shops at Eveleigh railway works…

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Seven Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 5

While engaged during a gale in attempting to raise the destroyer which was rammed and sunk by the cruiser Yorek on March 3 last, a salvage steamer capsized, and, as a…

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Motor Accident. Occupants Badly Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 1

A serious accident occurred on Saturday near Uralgurra, Upper Macleay. Mr Le Pettit's car was on its way to Armidale, when the Rey. Jas. Watson,…

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Fatality at Stanford-merthyr. Waggon-packer Killed. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 5

Albert Townsend, 35 years of age, a waggon-packer, was killed at Stanford-Merthyr colliery between half-past 9 and ten o'clock last night. No one witnessed the…

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Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 2

While driving home from Singleton to Glennie's Creek on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. G. Langsford and her daughter were the victims of an accident, which was, fortunately, not…

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Accidents Will Happen. Butcher Gashes His Fingers.Zam-Buk Recommended By Chemist Effects Grand Cure

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 4

"My husband is a butcher, and one day while cutting a carcase the knife slipped, inflicting a terrible cut across the four fingers of his left hand," says…

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Railway Accident. Man Cut to Pieces. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 2

A man named James Clifton, aged 45, engaged on the railway deviation works between Waterfall and Oxford, was cat to picces by a train last night during…

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Fatality at Stanford-merthyr. Inquest at Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 May 1913 · page 5

An inquest was held at the Kurri Court-House yesterday, before the District Coroner, Mr. G. Brown, and a jury of six, concerning the death of Albert Edward…

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Motor Car Fatality. Berlin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 5

A motor car, in which the Emperor of Germany was riding, while avoiding a cyclist [?] Wilesbaden, ran over and killed a boy…

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Motor Car Collision. One Man Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 14

A shocking motor-car accident occurred on the occasion of the Northern Downs races at. Dalby (Q.). A motor-car driven by Norman Samuel…

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Fatality at Stanford-Merthyr. Waggon-packer Killed. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 8

Albert Townsend, 35 years of age, a waggon-packer, was killed at Stanford-Merthyr colliery between half-past 9 and ten o'clock last night. No one witnessed the…

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Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 6

Joseph Spinks, the three-year-od son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Spinks, of Elizabeth-street, was severely scalded on Thursday morning. The child slipped off a chair in…

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