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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Accident to Butcher

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1922 · page 4

Mr. E. Trowbridge, an employee of Mr. J. Walsh, inflicted, a nasty wound in his knee yesterday, skinning a sheep. He was taken to the…

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Colliery Fatality. Fall of Coal at Ayrfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 October 1922 · page 5

The adjourned inquest regarding the death of Alexander Phillip Sattler, 27, who was fatally injured in Ayrfield Colliery on October 4, was held at the…

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Railway Accidents. New South Wales Record

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 October 1922 · page 6

Details of accidents in connection with the railway and tramway services of New South Wales during the year ended June 30, 1922, have…

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Colliery Fatality. Fall of Coal at Ayrfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1922 · page 6

The adjourned inquest regarding the death of Alexander Phillip Sattler, 27, who was totally injured in Ayrfield Colliery on October 4, was held at the…

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Ayrfield Colliery Fatality

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 October 1922 · page 2

The presence of a greasy parting in the seam was explained as the reason, for a fall of coal in Ayrfield Colliery, near Abeidare Junction, last week, as…

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The Surfing Season Fatality at Manly

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 October 1922 · page 2

What may be termed the first fatality of the surfing season occurred at Manly on Tuesday, the victim being David Henry Leix, aged 14 years, a…

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Painful Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 October 1922 · page 10

Mr. Peter Campbell met with a serious accident at Bellbird Colliery last Monday. In endeavoring to avoid a fall of coal he tripped and fell upon…

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Adams's Fire Fatality Inadequate Instructions Alleged

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 7

At the inquiry regarding the fatality at the fire at Adams's Cafe, Sydney, which resulted in the death of Fireman Brown, Mr A. T. Lloyd (representing…

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Colliery Fatality. Fall of Coal at Ayrfield

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 6

The adjourned inquest regarding the death of Alexander Phillip Sattler, 27, who was lately injured in Ayrfield Colliery on October 4, was held at the…

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Motor Overturns. Lieut-colonel Paul Killed. Several Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 5

On Friday a fatal motor smash occurred about four miles from Rydal. Lieut-Colonel Harold Paul, of the firm of Glasson and Co., auctioneers…

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Recovering from Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 4

Authur Wilks, son of Mrs. A. B. Wilks, of Paterson, formerly of High-street, West Maitland, who met with a serious accident in a fall from…

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Railway Accidents. New South Wales Record

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 13

Details of accidents in connection with the railway and tramway services of New South Wales during the year ended June 30, 1922, have…

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Brothers Drowned. Fatality at Arncliffe

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 October 1922 · page 3

Two children, James and Leonard Buckingham, brothers, aged 8 and 5 years, respectively, were drowned in Wolli Creek, Arncliffe (Sydney), on…

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Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 October 1922 · page 4

G. Woodward, 38, residing in Alexander-street, Hamilton, and C. Wells, 33, living at Wallsend, both employees of the Railway Electrical…

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Two Brothers Drowned

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 3

Two children named James and Leonard Buckingham, brothers, aged 8 and 5 years respectively, wore drowned in Wolli Greek, Arncliffe, on…

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Two Children Drowned. Sad Affair

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 2

James Buckingham. aged s, and Leonard Buckingham, aged 5, together with another boy, Allan Clark, were sent by their mother…

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Motor Overturns. Lieut, Colonel Paul Killed. Several Injured

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 4

On Friday a fatal motor smash occurred about four miles from Rydal. Lieutenant, Colonel Harold Paul, of the firm of Glasson and…

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Sailor Drowned a Drunken Freak

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 October 1922 · page 2

"Hooroo. I'll see you in twentyfive minutes near that flagpole on those rocks." These were the last words spoken by…

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Boy Drowned. in the Hunter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1922 · page 5

Shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon the West Maitland police were informed that a boy, Jack Bal[?] about 3 years of age, was drowned in…

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Paris Fatality. Australian Victim. London, October 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1922 · page 5

Reuter's Havre correspondent reports that the man who died from injuries received in trying to enter a tramcar on the wrong side has been…

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