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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1915

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Shooting Fatality

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 3

A sensation was caused in the town on Tuesday morning last when the news became known that a shooting fatality had taken place at Forrester's, and…

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Aviation Fatality. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 5

The aviator Bensist was descending at Issy Lessmulineaux, when his aeroplane fell from a height of a thousand feet in a blazing condition. Bensist jumped and was picked…

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An Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 2

A young man named G. Dorrity employed at Parker's Butchery as carter, bad a narrow escape from being killed early on Monday last. It…

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A Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 4

While the street collections in aid of our wounded soldiers were in progress about 2 o'clock thin afternoon, an unfortunate accident betel a little girl named Edith Muriel…

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Shooting Accident at Copeland

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 8

Late on Saturday night last, Mr Edward Dillon, 22 years of age, of Copeland, was admitted to the M.R.D. Hospital, with his…

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An Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 2

A young man named G. Dorrity employed at Parker's Butchery as carter, had a narrow escape from being killed early on Monday last. It…

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Colliery Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1915 · page 4

A manor named Charles Clark, aged 39, was killed at Whitburn colliery about 9 o'clock last night through a full of tops. His mate William Hewitson was badly bruised. The two…

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A Life Accident. Three Men Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1915 · page 7

Three men were injured in a lift accident at the Government Printing Office, Phillip-street, Sydney, on Friday when one of the lifts fell a distance of 25ft. from…

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The Motor Car Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1915 · page 4

In connection with the regrettable motor car fatality that occurred at Church-street crossing yesterday, it might be stated that the car was driven by Dr. Ken Herring's…

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Terrible Disaster. Picnic Steamer Overturns. 1336 Persons Drowned. Chicago, July 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1915 · page 7

The steel steamer Eastland. [?]2rs tons, belonging to the Eastland Navigation Company, white crowded with picnickers, capsized in the Chicago River…

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Tito Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1915 · page 4

The sad accident which occurred in High-street yesterday at the Church-street corner cast quite a gloom over the community, and everywhere the deepest sympathy was…

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A Nonagenarian's Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1915 · page 4

A few days ago Mr. Duncan McGregor, one of the oldest residents of the Hunter River district, and father of Councillor McGregor (Bolwarra Shire) had the misfortune to fall,…

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Train Collision. Fourteen Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1915 · page 8

An accident, as the result of ? ? persons were injured, occurred at ? ? street station last night, when the ? to Port Melbourne ? woth a ?…

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Train Collision. Fourteen Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1915 · page 8

An accident, as the result of which 14 persons were injured, occurred at the Flinders-street station last night, when the train to Port Melbourne collided with a stationary…

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The Motor Fatality. Driver Exonerated

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1915 · page 2

The circumstances of the death of tho little girl Edith Muriel Jane White, 5½ years of age, who died from the effects of Injuries through being run over by a…

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The Motor Fatality. Fancy Bread

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1915 · page 2

IMPORTANT MAGISTERIAL DECISION…

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The late Mr. Frederick J. Hawley of Newcastle, who died recently in Queensland, was one of the founders of the movement for advertising the Newcastle district as a the Motor Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1915 · page 2

DRIVER EXONERATED…

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Summer Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 4

Every mother knows the frequency with which her children come home with a cut foot, after a bare-foot scamper, and although she may be inclined to scold the child for its…

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The Motor Fatality. Driver Exonerated

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1915 · page 8

The circumstances of the death of the Little girl Edith Muriel Jane White, 5½ years of age, who died from the effects of injuries through being run over by a…

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Summer Accidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 August 1915 · page 4

"Every mother knows the frequency with which her children come home with a cut foot, after, bare-foot seamper, and although she may be inclined to scold the child for its…

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