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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Railway Accidents. a Woman Killed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 2

A sad accident occurred at the Roderick-street railway gates. Tamworth, on Thursday morning. A passenger train form Armi dale was approaching the gates when the…

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Accident at Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 2

A truck was derailed at, the railway station on Thursday. It appears that some trucks were being shunted out of the goods shed, and owing to the points not being set…

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Aerial Accident. Berlin, July 18

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

The airship Schuotteland broke adrift and was wreeked. A soldier was carried up with the airship, and fell from a height of 600 feet, with fatal result. A second soldier was…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Central Greta Colliery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 5

A sad fatal accident occurred about 12 o'clock on 10th at Central Greta Colliery, by which a miner named John Callaghan lost his life. Deceased was well-known throughout the…

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Aeroplane Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 July 1913 · page 4

Major Ilewitson was manoeuvring on Salisbury Plains in a monoplane, when the machine and the aviator was killed instantly…

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Riding Fatality. Young Lady Killed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 4

A riding fatality occurred near Fairymead plantation, in the Bundaberg district (Q.). Miss Dorothy Watkins, dausjhter of Mr and Mrs F.T. Watkins,…

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Fatality at Paterson. Fettler Killed Paterson

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

The Taree mail train from Sydney last evening ran over a fettler named W.G. Williams between the railway gates and the Paterson Bridge about seven o'clock The…

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A Missionary Drowned. Death Ok the Rev. C. C. Sage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 2

The steamer Mindini, which arrived at Sydney from the Shortland and Solomon islands on Monday evening, brought further particulars of the mishap which caused the…

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Railway Accidents. a Woman Killed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 4

A sad accident occurred at the Roderick-street railway gates, Tamworth, on Thursday morning. A passenger train from Armidale was…

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Result of an Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 2

The friends of Mr. Bruce Ramsay will be pleased to learn that he is now commencing to get about again, after being confined to his house owing to an…

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Accident at Coal Mine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 July 1913 · page 2

A serious scalding accident happened at the local coal mine on Monday morning. From what we can learn of the occurrence it appears…

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Singular Accident.—a Horse Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 July 1913 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon a young man named Fuller was driving a sulky through Bridgestreet, and when in front the Commercial Bank the horde, which was a young one,…

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Fatality at Paterson. Fetter Killed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 1

The Taree mail train from Sydney on Monday evening ran over a fottler named W. G. Williams between the railway gates, and the Paterson…

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Railway Accident

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

News was received to-day that Mr [?] Bull, a resident of Maitland, who,was ployed on the railway between Hamilton as Newcastle, had been run over by a train [?]…

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Fatality at Paterson

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 10

An unfortunate accident occurred at Paterson on Monday night last, when a fettler named William G. Williams was run over by the…

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Accident to Mr. A. Bull

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 4

Further particulars regarding the accident to Mr. Andrew Bull, a well-known resident of West Maitland, show that he was working in the Newcastle railway yards…

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Local and General. Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 2

Mr Dick Abbott, of this town, met with a nasty mishap on Wednesday last while engaged rounding up cattle on his Phillips' Creek…

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Riding Fatality. Young Lady Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 11

A riding fatality occurred near Fairymead plantation, in the Bundaberg district (Q.), Miss Dorothy Watkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Watkins, of Parramatta, Sydney…

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Railway Fatality at Tamworth. Old Resident Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 16

A shocking fatality occurred on the 17th inst. at the intersection of the railway line and Roderick-street, Tamworth, when Mrs. Elizabeth Carmichael, aged 71, one of the…

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Fatality at Paterson. Fettler Killed. Paterson

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 7

The Tarco mail train from Sydney last evening ran over a fettler named W. G. Williams between the railway gates and the Paterson Bridge about seven o'clock. The…

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