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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Accident to Rev. R. J. Thomas

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 July 1922 · page 2

The many Singleton friends of the Rev. R. J. Thomas will regret to learn that he is indisposed, and was unable to conduct the services at the Methodnet…

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News From Seattle. Collision Off Pacific Slope. Vancouver, July 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 5

A message from Seattle states that the schooner Henry Scott came into collision with the freighter Harry Luckenbach in a dense fog off Cape…

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Motor Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 3

A return showing tho number of motor accidents in the State in which casualties occurred, during the year 1921, has been prepared by Traffic…

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Motor Car Accident. Plunged Into River. London, July 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 5

Reuter's Casablanca correspondent reports that seven persons were killed and eleven injured through a big tourist car crashing into a parapet brdige…

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Fatal Fall of Clay. Double Fatality

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 July 1922 · page 3

While Charles Osborne and William Stretch were measuring part of an excavation in Hunter-street, Neweastle, for the erection of a new building about…

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Gas Explosion East Maitland Man Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 July 1922 · page 1

Mr John J. Farrelly, who resides in Melbourne-Street, East Maitland, was awakened early on Sunday morning by the smell of escaping gas. He de…

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Fatal Wheat Slide Three Men Killed; Five Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 July 1922 · page 4

A frightful accident Occurred at White Bay on Monday night, when eight men were buried beneath several hundred tons of bulk wheat. Three…

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Buried Alive Under Tons of Wheat. Strange Accident. Three Men Dead

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 3

Buried beneath 30 or 40 tons of bulk wheat and the broken timber of a heavy bulkhead, three men met their death in a hold of the steamer…

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Circus Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 2

"Mr. L. Huxley informs us that when returning from Bowraville to Macksville last week-end he met St. Leon and Sole's circus on Tewinga…

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Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 4

Mr. Pat O'Neil, proprietor of the wine saloon at Bellbird, met with a serious accident this week. He was yarding cattle on horseback when his pony…

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Shocking Fatality. Man Killed. Another Seriously Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 3

A shocking fatal accident happened on the site of the excavation for Mcllwraith and McEacharn's new building at the corner of Watt and…

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Three Men Killed. Fatality on a Steamer. Overwhelmed by Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 3

A shocking accident in which three men lost their lives occurred last night at White Bay. The steamer Norfolk was being…

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News From Seattle. Collision Off Pacific Slope. Vancouver, July 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 2

A message from Seattle stakes that the schooner Henry Scott came into collision with the freighter Harry Luckenbach in a dense fog off Cape…

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Motor Car Accident. Plunged Into River. London, July 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 2

Reuter's Casablanca correspondent reports that seven persons were killed and eleven injured through a big tourist car crashing into a parapot brdige…

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Motor Accidents

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 3

A return showing the number of motor accidents in the State in which easuaities occurred, during the year 1921, has been prepared by Traffic…

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Continental Railway Accident to Express. London, July 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 13

Reuter's B[?]carest correspondent reports that two persons were killed and 24 injured and great damage inflicted owing to the Bucarest-Vienna express…

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Kurri. Miner Badly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1922 · page 6

A serious and very regrettable accident befell Mr. T. Hughes, a miner, well-known in football circles, at the Richmond-Main colliery last Saturday…

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Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 July 1922 · page 2

An accident of a very painful nature befell Mrs Ellen Partridge, aged 68, wife of Mr W. Partridge, of Park-street, South Singleton, on Sunday last…

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Mob of Sheep Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1922 · page 5

BATHURST, Tuesday.—A flock of 300 sheep belonging to S. Willnott was caught by flood waters in a paddock at Esrom, and swept away and…

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Accident to Old Lady

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1922 · page 7

Mrs. Ellen Partridge, aged 68, wife of Mr. W. Partridge, of Park-street, South Singleton, met with an accident of a painful nature on Sunday last…

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