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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

491 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 25

Street Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 2

A fifteen years old son of Mr. Sears, of Main-street, was injured in a a street accident on Wednesday. The lad was driving a horse attached to a grocer's cart when the back…

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Tho Kurd Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 4

We learn that Mr. William Keysell, the well-known traveller for Messrs. Hall and Sons, of Newcastle, who was badly injured through the everturning of his…

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A Youth Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1919 · page 5

John Rathborne, 16, Aunandale, was drowned in the Worinors River at Come yesterday afternoon. The body has since been recovered…

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Inverell Tragedy. One Person Killed and Two Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1919 · page 6

One person was killed and two injured at an Inverell hotel on Saturday afternoon. Advices show that at about noon, while diner was in progress, a man named…

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Fatal Sulky Accident. on Bellbird Road. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1919 · page 8

The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wilson of McGrane-street, Cessnock was killed in a sulky accident yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and child were driving…

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Rock-fishing Fatality. Man Drowned at South Head. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 October 1919 · page 2

Two fishermen were washed of the rocks while fishing of Rosa Gully, South Head, this morning. The pilot steamer rescued one and…

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Shocking Fatality. Cut to Pieces by Mail Train

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 October 1919 · page 2

A shocking railway fatality occurred on the up line to Sydney, between Roy-street bridge and Lithgow station, some time on Sunday morning, when a middle-aged man…

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U.S. Steel Works Strike Many Injured. Militia Ordered Out. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) New York, Sunday Night

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 October 1919 · page 2

At Gary scores of people were hurt in the. riots at the steel works. The Governor of Indianopolis has ordered 11 companies of the State militia…

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Sad Fatal Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 October 1919 · page 2

The many friends here of Mr Albert Henry Playford, of South Singleton, were greatly shocked on Saturday to learn that he had been fatally injured…

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Fatality Through Broken Harness

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 October 1919 · page 3

Through an accident caused by breaking, of harness, the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs V. B. Wilson, was killed at Cessnock and Mrs Wilson sustained…

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Washed Off the Rocks. Young Photographer Drowned

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 October 1919 · page 3

Three young photographers, Eire Merto[?], Victor Dutch and Gregory Henningham, each 18 years of age, went to the foot of the cliffs at South Heda…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1919 · page 5

A [?] accident occurred at the New Greta Colliery at 9 o'clock this morning Richard Holmes, 31 years of age, employed as a set rider was carrying on his usual…

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Child Fatally Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 October 1919 · page 2

Through being thrown from a sulky on the Bellbird-road on Sunday afternoon, the seven months old child of Mr. and Mrs…

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To-day's Telegrams. Fatality on the Railway. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1919 · page 5

Early this morning, William Freeborn, a reilent of Summer Hill, was awakened by moans. He immediately dressed and made investigation. Eventually he…

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Colliery Fatality

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 7

Richard Holmes, a set-rider employed at New Greta Colliery, Greta, was fatally injured while at work on Thursday. Holmes was taking a train of sets out of…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. Lieut. Cherry Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 9

Lieut. L. G. Cherry, who left Adelaide for Melbourne early on Friday morning on a motor cycle with a side-car, for the purpose of establishing an overland record, met…

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Shocking Fatality. Out to Pieces by Mail Train

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 13

A shocking railway fatality occurred on the up line to Sydney, between Roy-street bridge and Lithgow station, some time on Sunday morning, when a middle-aged man,…

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Cessnock District News. the Greta Fatality. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 3

An inquest was opened at the Greta Courthouse yesterday morning, before the district coroner, Mr. G. Brown, and a jury of six, concerning the death of Richard…

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Inverell Tragedy. One Person Killed and Two Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 16

One person was killed and two injured at an Inverell hotel on Saturday afternoon. Advices show that at about noon, while dinner was in progress, a man named…

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Fatal Sulky Accident. on Bellbird Road. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 14

The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Wilson, of McGrane-street, Cessnock, was killed in a sulky accident yesterday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and child were driving…

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