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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Accident on Show Ground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 March 1924 · page 4

During the progress of the motor cycle races on the Show Ground on Saturday night, one of the competitors fell, and his machine struck a…

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Cessnock Motor Fatality. Verdict Op Accidental Death Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1924 · page 6

The inquiry into the death of Joseph Minto, who was knocker down by a car driven by Stanley Creswell, on Saturday week, was…

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Train Collision. Several Fatalities. London, March 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1924 · page 5

A message from Metz states that the international express from Ostend to Bale, came into collision with a goods train at Bensdorf at night…

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Thames Disaster Steamship Collision. Several Killed. LONDON, March 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1924 · page 5

The Shaw-Savill steamer Matatua, 6518 tons, bound for Lyttelton, collided at Gravesend with the United States Shipping Board's…

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Niagara Passengers. Accident While Motoring. (By Cable.) Suva

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 March 1924 · page 2

While the stoamer Niagara was here on Friday, Sir Wm. and Lady M'Pherson and party went motoring with an Indian driver. The ear tipped into a…

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Recent Motor Accident Evidence at Inquest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 March 1924 · page 8

An inquest touching the death of Joseph Minto, who was run over by a motor car near the intermission of Vincent and Hall Streets on the…

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Mining Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 March 1924 · page 5

A miner named James Miller, employed at Bellbird No. 2 Colliery, was admitted to Cessnoek Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries…

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Surf Tragedy. Rescuer Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 March 1924 · page 2

Arthur Lakeman, of Dweilingup, (W.A.), was drowned at Mandurah while assisting in the rescue of four woman who got into difficulties while…

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Steamer Benandra. Wrecked at Moruya Heads. One Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 March 1924 · page 7

The Hlawarra and South Court Steam Navigation Company's steamer Benandra, Strick the Moruya bar on Tuesday afternoon, and become a…

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Motor Accident. a Cessnock Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 March 1924 · page 2

Before Mr. Justice Campbell, and a jury of four, in No. 3 Jury Court, Sydney, Alexander Anderson, a winding engineer, of Cessnock, sought to…

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Accidents While Skating

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 March 1924 · page 4

Two accidents to skaters occurred at the Adelphi Rink last night as a result or falls. R. Roarty, of the Caledonian Hotel, sustained a nasty…

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Motorist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1924 · page 4

Mr. Alfred Foster, a traveller from Sydney was severly bruised on both legs this afternoon, as a result of his car slipping off a jack whilst being…

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Collision in Thames. Sleeping Sailors Killed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 March 1924 · page 3

London, Tuesday.—A sensational collision occurred, off Gravesemd about 4 a.m. to-day between the Shaw Savill liner Matatua and an American steamer…

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Train Collision. Eight People Killed. London, March 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1924 · page 2

News comes from Metz that the International express from Ostend to (Switzerland) collided with a goods train at Bensdorf during the…

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Racehorse Injured. Apparently with Stable Fork. Casino

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1924 · page 5

Going to the stall of his racehorse, Merry Form, at the Commercial Hotel, Coraki, W. Ford found the horse bleeding from a wound in the leg which…

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Fatal Accident. Appeal Against Verdict

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1924 · page 3

The High Court, sitting in Sydney, was occupied in the hearing of an appeal by Alice Cofield, of Annandale, against judgement of the State Full…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1924 · page 4

Mr. P. Bragg met with a painful accident while working this morning at the Maitland steam laundry. In opening a cask of caustic soda, a…

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Collision at Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 4

A. collision occurred at the intersection of Cessnock and Allworth streets, Kurri Kurri, between a motor car driven by Mr. Jack Smith, and…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 4

Thomas Davis, 58, a miner employed at New Greta Colliery, was injured through being knocked down by three skips of coal on Wednesday…

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Fall of Earth. Fatality at Hornsby

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 6

Joseph Coady, 29, a labourer, and a married man, residing at The Terrance, National Brickworks, Normanhurst, was killed by a fall of earth…

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