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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Wheel Collapsed. Serious Motor Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 16

A motoring accident, resulting in serious injury to one of six passengers, occurred near Glenora (Tas.) on Sunday afternoon…

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Aberdare Colliery. Accidental Death. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 7

An inquiry was held at the Cessnock Courthouse this morning by Mr. Geo. Brown, District Coroner, into the death of Robert Oliver, a miner…

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Pea Rifle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 4

A seven-years-old boy was injured in a pea-rifle accident at the residence of Mrs. Muddle, Stroud-road. A young man named John…

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Local and General Collision at Fishery Creek

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 February 1924 · page 4

While proceeding towards Kurri just before 6 p.m. on Saturday, and when close to the bridge at Fishery Creek, a Ford car, driven by…

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Two Injured. Motor Lorry Overturns. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 February 1924 · page 5

A motor lorry, containing five men, overturned at the corner of Pitt and Bathurst-street to-day. Two of the men were admitted to Sydney Hospital…

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Accident at Karri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 February 1924 · page 4

An elderly man named Michael Brien. a labourer, fell on the sharp edge of a verandah post in Hampden-street on Saturday evening,…

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Badly Injured. Boy Under Tram

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 6

Norman Veness, 6 years of age, of Coogee, was run over by a tram, and both legs were so severely crushed that it is feared they will have to be…

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Railway Smash. Head on Collision. on Belmont Line

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 6

Shortly after 2.30 o'clock on Monday afternoon a head-on collision occurred on the Belmont line, at the Redhead loop. Several passengers…

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Heavy Storms. Torrential Fall in Brisbane. Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 7

An unusually heavy rainstorm swept Brisbane and suburbs on Monday. The low-laying ground was flooded, the tramway service broken, and Breakfast…

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Dragged to Death. Fatal Accident at Wonthaggi Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 5

"A fatal accident happened to Dennis Carney, 16, at M. Bride's Tunnel, at Wonthaggi. Deceased was employed at the pit…

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Adamstown Railway Smash Three Persons Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 3

A head-on collision took place on Monday afternoon at Adamstown, when a passenger train from Newcastle to Belmont ran into a loaded coal train,…

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Bich Coal Seam. Discovered by Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 8

It is understood on reliable authority that coal in payable quantities has been discovered at Rocklea, a few miles from Brisbane, in a large…

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Mine Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 4

Aubrey Lindsay, a motor attendant in Standford-Merthyr colliery, was admitted to Kurri Kurri District Hospital, suffering from injures…

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Accident at Gosforth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 4

Mr. W. P. Smith of Hight-street East Maitland, met with an accident yesterday at gosforth. He Was driving down an incline when the…

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Electrocuted. the Haberfield Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 9

The Sydney Coroner inquired into the death of Francis Leonard Moore, 29 who was electrocuted while experimenting with a…

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Car Capsizes. Three Persons Injured. Orange Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 11

Mr. Samuel Williams (owner of Alloway Bank Station, Bathurst), his daughter, and Mr. C.V. Suttor (owner of the Rocks Estate near Bathurst)…

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Bishop Injured. Scalded at Rotorua

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 14

Bishop MacCarthy, who is accompanying Archbishop Mannix in a tour of New Zealand, has had to enter Lewisham Hospital at Christchurch for…

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Badly Injured. Boy Under Tram

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 16

Norman Veness, 6 years of age, of Coogee, was run over by a tram, and both legs were so severely crushed that it is feared they will have to be…

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Touched Live Wire. Boy Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 9

A boy named David Eadle, of Abbot-street, West Maitalnd, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital on 2nd inst…

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Railway Smash. Head on Collision. on Belmont Line

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 16

Shortly after 2.30 o'clock on Monday afternoon a head-on collision occurred on the Belmont line, at the Redhead loop. Several passengers…

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