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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Plucky Mother. Injured While Attempting to Save Child

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1924 · page 16

In attempting to save her infant son from being run over by a tram, Mrs. Thelma Reece received serious injuries at Cabarita…

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A Runaway Lorry Two Persons Injured. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 January 1924 · page 8

A runaway motor forry eapsized at Watson's Bay this morning ,pinning a man named Ma[?]n Murphy and a boy named Brown underneath it. The…

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Motor Accidents. Head List of Fatalities. Sydney Figures

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1924 · page 11

According to the Sydney Council's annual return fatal motor accidents again head the list of violent deaths for the year…

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Kurri. Accidents at Pelaw-main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1924 · page 4

White taking the numbers of some trucks of props, Mr. T. Cassidy, head ganger at Pelaw-Main Colliery, sustained an injury to one side…

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Sport Abroad. Riding Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 5

Captain Bennelt, 29, the amateur cross-country, rider, who had been unconscious for sixteen days, has succumbed to the injuries received…

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Heddon-greta Fatality. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 5

The adjourned inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Annie Ivy May Perry and Arthur Douglas Rawling, who were…

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Accident in High-street

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 4

Messrs. B. and H. Trindall, of Abermain, were watering a horse, which they were driving in a sulky, at the trough near the fire station…

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Mine Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 4

William Thomas Parkinson (21), a miner employed at the Central Greta Colliery and residing in Cliff-st., Greta, had his leg broken by a fall of…

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Accident to Jockey. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 5

Frank Dempsey, the noted jockey, almost lost one eye while golflug at Mordialloo (Victoria) yesterday…

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Gatekeeper Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 2

William Bowles, railway gatekeeper at the Aberdeen-road crossing, was admitted to Brentwood Hospital a few days ago suffering from abrasions…

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Accident at Bellbird Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 4

A man named McDonald, employed at the Bellbird Collier, had his toes badly crushed yesterday as a result of being run over by a…

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In a Bath. Carter Found Drowned. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1924 · page 5

Ernest Taylor, 58, a brick carter of Camperdown, was found dead in a bath full of water at his home this morning, with a seven pounds weight…

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Recent Motoring Fatality

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 5

The recent motoring fatality at the Heddon Greta bridge, the position of which is said to constitute a danger to the travelling public, was…

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Big City Fire Building Gutted. Marcus Clark's Newtown Premises. Several Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 1

The four-story emporium of Marcus Clark and Co., Ltd., in Brown-street. Newtown, off King-street, was gutted by fire on Monday night…

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Boy Killed. Accidentally Shot by Brother. Toowoomba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 5

James McBride, a fencing contractor, was working with his tow sons, who went out kangaroo hunting and shooting on horseback…

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Accident at Bellbird

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 7

Yesterday Harold Mitchell, a wheeler employed in the Bellbird colliery, had his arm crushed between two buffers. The injuries sustained…

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Riding Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 12

Captain Bennett, 29, the amateur cross-country rider, who had been unconscious for sixteen days has succumbed to injuries received…

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Fatality at Manilla Jumped From Bridge

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 5

A well-known resident of Manilla, named Mark Howard, was killed on Wednesday as the result of a fall from the Manilla bridge. He was walking…

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Crushed by Buffers Steel Works Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 11

John Sharpe, 35, a labourer, employed in the by-products department of the steel works, met his death in tragle circumstances on…

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Tasmanian Double Tragedy Boy and Girl Drowned

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 8

A very sad double drown ing tragedy occurred at Launceston (Tas.) on Wednesday, the victims being Leslie Brown, 8, and Daphne Barnes, 7. The…

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