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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

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Two Horses Killed. Collision at Liverpool

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 13

Two horses were killed as the result of a collison in High-street, Liverpool. A sulky, driven by Stanley O'Brien,…

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Boxing Fatality. New Zealand Case. Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 11

A professional boxing match at Nelson (N.Z.) between Herb Robinson and Billy Tapp, ended fatally. In the eleventh round, Robinson…

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Accident at Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 4

During the general parade on the Show Ground yesterday afternoon, Mr. L. Whyburn, of Singleton, was injured. He was putting his horse…

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Railway Accident. London, March 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 12

Reuter's Mayonce correspondent states that it is reported that in consequence or the mistake of a pointsman, one person was killed and…

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Cycling Smash. Purely an Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 3

The Australian amateur cycling championship committee on Monday evening held an inquiry into the big smash which occurred in the five miles…

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Fatal Accident. Thrown Out of a Sulky. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 13

Whilst Mrs. West, 32, daughter of My. G. Gill, a well-known resident, was with two children in a vehicle, being driven hy her husband…

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Accidentally Tripped

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 6

The temporary failure of the electric light on the evening of 10th February was officially explained at the Municipal Council meeting on even…

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Terribly Injured. Engine-driver's Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 March 1923 · page 3

Frederick Phillips, 60, a winding engine-driver at the Borehole Colliery, Cockle Greek, received terrible injuries late on Friday night. and…

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Three Injured. Motor Car Overturns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 March 1923 · page 2

As a result of a taxi car colliding with an electric light standard in Annandale-street, Annandale, early on Sunday morning, three men were…

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British Navy. Gibraltar Fatality. London, March 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 March 1923 · page 5

The Admeralfy announces that one naval rating was killed and four others seriously injured in an explosion on the cruiser Coventry at…

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Found Drowned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 March 1923 · page 2

James Joseph Fleming, a single man, 20 years of age, was found drowned in an old well a Pokolbin on Saturday morning. He was residing with his…

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Transport Sinks. Two Hundred Soldiers Drowned. (Reuters Message.) London, Saturday Night

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 March 1923 · page 2

An Athens correspondent states that a transport laden with 400 soldiers on furlough sank in a storm off Pireaus. Two hundred were drowned…

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Drowned in a Well

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1923 · page 4

James Joseph Fleming, 29, was found drowned in a well at Pokolbin. The covering over the well was found disturbed and deceased's boots were…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 4

Mr. Charles Orman, a married man, 22 years of age, residing in No. 19, Mt. Pleasant-street, was injured yesterday afternoon in the East…

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A Cowardly Assault. Young Man Severely Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 2

A man named Alfred George Wilson, with a friend, was walking through the Flemington saleyards on Tuesday on his way home, when he was…

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Mine Fatality. Fall of Coal at Pelaw Main. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 5

Edward O'Toole. 35, was killed by a fall, of coal at Pelaw Main to-day. His brother, Thomas, 37, treasurer of the lodge, received injuries to his…

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Ruinous Storm in United States. 46 Killed; 70 Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 2

Chicago, Monday.—A ruinous storm, in which 46 people were killed and 70 injured, has passed over Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin,…

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Over a Precipice. Sensational Motor Accident

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 March 1923 · page 4

A steep cutting on Bellbrook-road, about 65 miles from Armidale, was the scene of a sensational accident, when a car, driven by Mr Palmer, a…

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Pelaw Main Fatality

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 7

Two brothers, Edward and Thomas O'Toole, miners, engaged at Pelaw Main colliery, were buried beneath a fall of coal in the mine…

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Fatality [?] Pelaw Main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 7

It is two years since a [?] occurred at Pelaw Main Colliery till the disaster on Thursday, when Mr. Edward O'Toole, 35, married,with teo…

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