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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

1,288 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 65

Sulky Accident. Crash Through Paling Fence Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 August 1923 · page 5

Three young ladles in a sulky, including members of the Innes family of Heddon Greta, suffered a severe shaking and shock through being…

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Footballers Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 4

Two young men Ellis and Lynch come into collision while playing foot-ball at the week-end. Ellis received sbrasions to the nose and Lynch a…

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Remarkable Fatality. Man Pinned Under Water

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 4

William Noone, aged 57, was loading log son to a mint al Coolongolook, when a log, 35 feet long and 5 feet 6 inches in girth, rolled down…

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Crossing Fatality. Boy Killed at Aspendale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 5

Jack Wood, aged 13, who lived with his widowed mother and, his sister at Aspendale (Vic.), was struck by an train and killed…

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Polo Player Injured. Recovery Doubtful

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 2

A Gilgandara message states that R. Crossthwaite, a member of the Coolah. Polo team, while playing against Narromine, was kicked in…

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Terrific Impact. Steamers in Collision Hands Hurled From Their Bunks. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 5

Shortly before two o'clock this morning, a collision occurred at Sydney heads between the steamers Induna and Saros…

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Man Pinned Under Water a Remarkable Fatality

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 August 1923 · page 2

William Noone, aged 57, was loading logs on to a punt at Coolongolook, when a log, 35 feet long and 5 feet 6 inches hi girth, rolled down the bank…

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Peculiar Motor Accident Oar Snaps in Two

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 August 1923 · page 2

A peculiar incident in connection with an accident to a six cylinder Buick car took place on the River Lett Hill, Great Western-road. The…

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Schoolmaster Drowned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 5

Mr. Albert Barker, schoolmaster at Greenridge, was early on Tuesday morning found drowned in a waterhole on Knight's road close to Deep…

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Steamers Collision. Merse[?] Sensation. London, August 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 5

The Isle of Man steamer Douglas emerging from dock at Liverpool came into collision with the steamer Artemisia from Sourabaya…

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Pelaw-main Accident. Old Man Injured. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 5

Yesterday afternoon a miner named Samuel Ramage aged about 60, was badly out about the head and received injuries to one of his arms, due to a…

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Motor Fatality. Charge of Manslaughter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 11

In the early hours of Friday morning, Samuel Cann, aged 60 years, a member of the tramway night repair gang, was knocked…

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Remarkable Fatality. Man Pinned Under Water

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 16

William Noone, aged 57, was loading logs on to a punt at Coolongo-look, when a log, 35 feet long and 5 feet 6 inches in girth, rolled down…

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Crossing Fatality. Boy Killed at Aspendale

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 16

Jack Wood, aged 13, who lived with his widowed, mother and his sister at Aspendale (Vic.), was struck by an electric train and killed…

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Bolting Engine. Collision with Another Locomotive

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 9

Suddenly and without warning, in the middle of the night, an idle and unattended, engine which had been sit standing in a spare siding of…

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Swept Overboard. Man Drowned at Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 11

As a result of a towline attached from the tug Eden to a garbage punt suddenly snapping. Henry Macauley. a marine engineer, was knocked…

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Harbour Incident. Steamers in Collision. Slight Damage

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 9

A collision occurred in the harbour into on 10th inst, between the A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Makarra, and the Huddart Parker, Ltd's, steamer…

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Over a Cliff. Boy Fatally Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 9

John James Molloy, 15, who lived with his parents at Balmain, wan found dead at the foot of a cliff on Ballast Point at on 9th instant…

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Terrific Impact. Steamers in Collision Hands Hurled From Their Bunks. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 16

Shortly before two o'clock this morning, a collision occurred at Sydney heads between the steamers Induna and Saros…

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Killed by Tree. Accident Near Raymond Terrace

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 9

A man named John Oakley, whilst engaged felling trees in Mr. A. Blanch's paddock, at Mt. Hall, about 2½ miles from Raymond Terrace, met…

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