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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

1,288 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 65

An Injured Hand

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 2

Cecil Gill, as employee of Abermain Colliery No. 2, met with an injury to his hand on Tuesday, which necessitated his removal to the Cessnock…

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Mine Fatality. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 5

The Coroner (Mr. G. Brown) opened an inquiry into the death, through a fall of coal, in Pelaw-Main, of Edward O'Toole. An…

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Ex-local Resident Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 2

Cecil Gill (25), son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Gill, of Muswellbrook, was the victim of a painful accident at Abermain No. 2 colliery early this week…

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Ajax Damaged. Collision Off Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 5

The steamer Culna and the pilot steamer Ajax came into collision off the port this morning. The pilot had taken the Culna out…

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Jockey Clarke Injured. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1923 · page 5

Jockey R. J. Clarke was injured this morning. He was riding a horse from the racecourse when the animal shied and threw him. He was…

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Child Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 4

An inquest was held at the West Maitland Courthouse this morning, by the Coroner, Major P. W. C. Crane, regarding the death of Marie Alice…

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Collision with Horses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 4

Mr. Cecil Hawley, of Kurri Kurri, was driving a motor car along the old Cessnock-road, near Sawyer's Gully, at about eight o'clock, on…

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Gibraltar Fatality. London, March 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 13

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

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Terribly Injured. Engine-driver's Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 16

Frederick Phillips, 60, a winding ingine-driver at the Borehole Colliery, Cockle Creek, received terrible injuries late on the 9th inst., and…

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Air Crash. Three Persons Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 7

Disaster met the Bristol tourer aeroplane, which is accompanying the Vickers-Vulcan machine on its trip to Longreach, Queensland, upon…

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Cowardly Assault. Young Man Severely Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 3

Alfred Geo. Wilson, with a friend, was walking through the Flemington saleyards on his way home, when he was accosted by two men…

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Head on Collision. Motor Cars Wrecked. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 5

Two motor cars were wrecked in a head-on smash near the Waterfall Sanatorium on the Bulli Road yesterday…

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Young Man Killed. Motor Cycle and Car in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 2

William Rupert Jarrett, 22, of Windsor, who was injured in a collision between a motor cycle and side ear and motor car at St. Kilda…

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Remarkable Accident. Jambed Under a House

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 2

William White, a resident of killingworth, near Newcastle, was renewing the foundation blocks of his weatherboard house, when he was…

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Fatal Accident. Result of Skylarking

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 7

The New Zealand Army Rifle Association's meeting at Trentham was marred by a fatal accident on Thursday. The men were skylarking…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 4

A young man named Reginald Smith, a resident, of Hamilton, met with a painful accident in High-street, near the Technical College,…

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Shocking Accident. Contractor Dragged to Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1923 · page 14

Mr. T. Bowes, a contractor, who resided at Leichhardt, fell from a tip-dray, to which a bolting horse was harnessed, in Brighton-street…

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Pelaw Main Fatality

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 March 1923 · page 7

Mr. G. Brown, district coroner, before a jury, concluded the inquiry at Kurri Court House on Wednesday into the circumstances surrounding the…

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Motor Cycle Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1923 · page 2

A collision occurred on Saturday last between two motor cycles ridden by two young men, Messrs. Hodges and Trappel. They were…

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Air Crash. Three Persons Injured

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1923 · page 2

Disaster met the Bristol tourer aeroplane, which is accompanying the Vickers-Vulcan machine on its trip to Longreach, Queensland,…

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