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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

1,288 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 65

Joiner Injured. Cessnock Accident. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 5

Norman Thompson, a joiner; employed at Johnson's Joinery Works, met with a serious accident. Three fingers and the top of the…

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Double Collision. Further Particulars. London. July 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 5

The name of the third steamer in the North Sea collision when the Eldorida and the Beigona the Fifth were sunk is the Sheridan. The collision…

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A Triple Sea Collision. Two Ships Sunk. (Reuter's Cables.) London, Sunday night

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 2

An extraordinary triple collision at sea-is reported from Yarmouth. The Swedish steamer El Dorado collided with the Spanish steamer Birette V…

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Paintul Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 2

Wrile working at a circular saw at Cessnock Mr. N. Thompson lost three Ingers and the top of a thumb. Mr. Thompson is a son of Mr. and…

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Tram Accident. Sensational Occurrence. Driver's Miraculous Escape

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 4

Remarkable good fortune attended a serious tram accident yesterday afternoon—good fortune in the sense that practically no injury was…

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Fatal Accident. Thrown Under Tram

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 4

George Douglas M'Lean, aged 30, a warehouseman, living at Maylands (S.A.), was killed at St. Peter's, while riding a motor cycle along the…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 2

Whilst Mr. Geo. Soper, an employee of the Public Works Department, at Randon Grove river crossing, was working in a trench where…

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Youth's Sad Death Accidentally Killed by Father. (By Cable.) Wellington (N.Z.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1923 · page 2

While Joseph Rowntree, who had partly, sawn through a tall pine, went to his house, intending to return and finish the job, the tree fell…

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Congewai Resident Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 July 1923 · page 4

Frederick Clarke, a young man who has only been married a few weeks, had the misfortune to be struck with a falling tree on…

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Injured by Falling Tree. Cesnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 July 1923 · page 5

Frederick Clark, 23, a resident or Congowai, has been admitted to the Cessnock Hospital, suffering from concussion. the result of a tree…

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Joiner Injured. Cessnock Accident. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 14

Norman Thompson, a joiner, employed at Johnson's Joinery Works, met with a serious accident. Three fingers and the top of the…

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Bullock Chain Across Road Motorists Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 7

As the result of a motor car crashing into a bullock chain, which was stretched across the road, three persons were injured near Maclean on…

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Caught in Machinery Young Man Terribly Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 9

While a young man named Alex. Saddler was working sin the powerhouse at Chichester water works, his Coot became entangled in the shaving…

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Steamer Collisions. Chapter of Accidents London, July 15

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 13

An extraordinary triple-collision at sea is reported from Yarmouth. The report states that at three in the morning the Swedish steamer…

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Fatal Accident. Thrown Under Tram

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 14

George Douglas M'Lean, aged 39. a warehouseman, living at Maylands S.A.), was killed at St. Peter's, while riding a motor cycle along the…

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Tram Accident. Sensational Occurrence. Driver's Miraculous Escape

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 14

Remarkable good fortune attended a serious tram accident on Monday afternon—good fortune in the sense that practically no injury was…

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Footballer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 July 1923 · page 4

During the progress of the football match between Hast End and Eastern Suburbs on the Show Ground on Saturday afternoon, J. Callaghan,…

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Tram Fatality. Prominent Adelaide Man's Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 July 1923 · page 6

The death occurred on Saturday evening of Mr. Thomas Gill, C.M.G., I.S.O. He was knocked down by a tram at the intersection of King…

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Toll of the Motor. Man Killed at Parramatta. Week-end Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 July 1923 · page 6

George Hatfield aged 25, a resident of Ashfield, was killed, and three other men injured, in a collision in Parramatta-road Ashfield…

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Accident on Pitnacree Road.'

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 July 1923 · page 4

Whilst proceeding in a cart along the Pitnacree-road on Saturday morning, a tank on which Mr. W. White, of Newcastle-road was…

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