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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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News by Wire. Boating Fatality. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 November 1914 · page 5

A boating party was capsized off Rotorua, N.Z., yesterday afternoon. The occupants were all thrown into the water. Three managed to regain the upturned craft and sat on…

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Boating Accident. Four People Drowned. (By Cable.) Auckland

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 3

While returning from Mokoia to Rotorua on Sunday seven people were in a small boat, when a sudden puff capsized the craft…

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Riot at Newtown. Two Men Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 3

After the closing of one of the hotels at Newcastle on Friday night a number of men and women collected near by and…

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Kaiser's Son August Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 2

A telegram from Berlin states the Kaiser's son, August, is suffeing from a complicated fracture of the thigh sustained in a motor accident while…

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A Collision. German Warship Founders. Copenhagen, Nov. 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 5

A Danish stemmed collided with the German destroyer S124, which foundered. The S124 was steaming at full speed off Falsterbo a tongue of land jutting out…

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Schoolboy Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 November 1914 · page 4

A sad drowning fatality occurred yesterday afternoon, Standley Shelton, 141 years of age, losing his life. Deceased, who was the son of Mr. Shelton, a deputy at Pelaw-Main,…

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Horse Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 November 1914 · page 4

During the height of the storm yesterday evening, the wind blew a sheet of galvanised iron from the top of a haystack at the dairy farm of Mr. Hollingsworth at Lochend,…

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Around Dixmude. Germans Drowned

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 November 1914 · page 4

The following is among the recent in eidents of the imundations east of Dixmude. The waters cut off 1500 Germans on the night of November 18…

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Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 November 1914 · page 2

Two men named C. Neilson and G. Thorley met with an accident at the railway goods shed on Tuesday morning. Neilson is a carrier from Jerry's Plains and, desiring to load…

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Accident at Goods Shed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 November 1914 · page 2

On Tuesday morning C Neilson, a carier, from Jerry's Plains, wishing to load some wool at the goods shed, asked another man, George Thorley, to…

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Pea-rifie Accidents

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 November 1914 · page 4

An unfortunate pea-rifle accident occurred to a son of Mr W. J. Hawke, of Armidale, recently. The boy was in a building, when his brother, who was…

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News by Wire. Smocking Fatality. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 5

A man, whoso name is at present unknown, was found dead on the Belmore line early this morning. The full length of a train apparently passed over him. Death must have…

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Sad Fatality at Tenterfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 November 1914 · page 4

On Tuesday last a sad fatality occurred at Tenterfield, when a man named William J. Seymour, about 45 years of age, son of Mr. Matthew Seymour, of West Maitland, was…

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Three Men Drowned. Auckland (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 November 1914 · page 5

While the steamer Khan was lightering wool from a large steamer at Hawke's Bay N.Z., a surf-boat capsized and three men were drowned…

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Riot at Newtown. Two Men Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 November 1914 · page 6

Alter the closing of hotels at Newtown last night a number of men and women collected near by and commenced an arg[?]ment. A free fight ensued, and the seen…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 November 1914 · page 1

On Tuesday morning C Neilson, a carrler, from Jerry's Plains, wishing to load some wool ar the Singleton goods shed, asked another man,…

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The Recent Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 November 1914 · page 4

An inquest was held at the West Maitland courthouse this afternoon, touching the death of Stanley Shelton, who was drowned in the river at East Maitland on Wednesday…

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The Recent Drowning. This Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 December 1914 · page 2

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., held a magisterial enquiry at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday touching the death of Stanley. Russell Shelton, who was drowned in the…

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Accident to Railway Man. Foot Injured by Hand-car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 December 1914 · page 7

"My husband recently met with a most. distressing accident when he was working on the Railway," writes Mrs. G. Bowman, Thosby-street, Wickham, Newcastle, N.S.W…

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Prussians in the Wine Cellar. Drinkers Drowned. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 December 1914 · page 5

A company of 75 Prussians, harrassed by French artillery, took refuge in a wine cellar in Flanders, where they spent the night in carousing…

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