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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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Accident to Prime Minister

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 5

The Prime Minister (Mr W. M. Hughes) met with an accident, fortunately unattended by serious consequences, on Monday…

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Railway Fatality Man Out to Pieces

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 6

Shortly after 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon Joseph Carstons, a single man and a returned soldier, of the People's Palace, Goulburn-street, Sydney, was…

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Glennie's Creek Fatality. Boy Smothered by Fall of Earth. Singleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 7

Allan Roy Caslick, 13 yours of age, son of Mr. John Bertram Caslick, of Middle Falbrook, met his death in a tragic manner yesterday afternoon…

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Boy Accidentally Suffocated

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 3

A very sad fatality occurred on the bunk of Glennie's Creek, at Middle Falbrook, on Tuesday afternoon, the victim being a boy named Allan Roy…

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Accident to Miner

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 4

John Parry, a miner, employed, at East Greta, who resides at Homeville, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital this morning suffering from a fracture…

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Fall From Horse. Accident to Prime Minister

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 6

The Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) met with an accident, fortunately unattended by serious consequences, on Monday…

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Railway Accident. Engine and Tender Part. Driven and Fireman Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1920 · page 5

Driver Louis Herman and Fireman A. Taylor, both of the Goulburn [?]motive depot, were killed between Binalong and Galong shortly after…

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Seventh Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 October 1920 · page 5

Another passenger died on the mail steamer Ormonde just as the vessel was about to enter Sydney Heads this morning, making the seventh fatality…

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Sensational Collision

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 2

About 2.35 p.m. on Saturday a collision between a horse and a motor car caused considerable sensation in Johnstreet, near the intersection with…

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Youth Drowned at Wallsend

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 2

James Stewart, aged 17 years, living with his parents at Lake-road, Wallsend, was drowned in a large waterhole, known as the Jubilee Dam, at Wallsend, on…

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Over a Bank. Motor Lorry Out of Control. Four Persons Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 3

On the Woronora Road, Sutherland, on Monday, a motor lorry, containing a picnic party, numbering 21, jumped over the edge of the road, fulling…

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Accident in John-street

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 6

On Saturday afternoon a collision between a horse and a motor car caused some excitement in John-street, near the intersection with Gas-street…

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Sawmill Fatality. Question of Fencing Machinery. Case at Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 7

Thomas Lister was charged at the Kurri Kurri Police Court, before Mr. G. Atkin P.M., under the FActories and Shops Act of 1912, with being the…

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Peculiar Sulky Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 4

A peculiar accident occurred in Bulwer-street last evening, Messrs. N. Olsen and E. Finch, of Oakhampton, were endeavouring to turn a fractions…

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A Shocking Accident Man's Neck Broken

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 3

An Enfield resident, hearing groans while passing along the road, on Sunday morning, investigated and discovered two mon lying beneath an overturned…

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Over a Bank. Motor Lorry Out of Control. Four Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1920 · page 6

On the Woronora Road, Sutherland on Monday, a motor lorry, containing a picnic party, numbering 21, jumped over the edge of the road, falling…

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Fatally Injured. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 October 1920 · page 5

John Stewart, 45, a carter, employed by the Castlemaine' Brewery for 30 years, was returning from Lambton with his cart this morning between 10…

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Tram Collision. Smash at Broadmeadow. Two Cars Telescoped. One Passenger Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 October 1920 · page 4

A disastrous tramway accident occurred on the Wallsend line on Saturday night shortly before half-past seven o'clock resulting in the death of…

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Missionary Drowned While Crossing Macleay River

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 October 1920 · page 3

A man named H. Preston, a representative of the Australian Aborgines Mission, who had been in the Kempsey district for about three weeks, was…

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Motor Car's Plunge. Ran Off River Punt. Sackville Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 October 1920 · page 6

The river-crossing punt at Sackville was the scene of a fatal motor-car accident on Sunday afternoon. The car, which contained the driver…

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