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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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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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Fearfully Injured Child Cut by Mowing Machine. Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 5

The two-years-old son of Mr. C. E. Inkelmann, a farmer of Laidley North, wandered into a crop of panicum and lay down, hidden from…

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Blasting Accident. Stones Crash Into Houses. Residents Alarmed

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

An unenviable experience befell residents of the neighbourhood of a big quarry on Bowen Bridge-road, Brisbane…

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Kurri. Accidents at Pelaw-main

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 3

"Sailor" Brown, a miner, struck on the head and shoulders by a piece of coal in Pelaw Main Colliery on Wednesday, receiving a…

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Colliery Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 4

Two accidents occurred at Hebburn Colliery yesterday. Mr. Watty White, a machine-man, sustained internal injuries, the result of a blow in the…

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Martins Creek Fatality. Coroner's Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 4

An enquiry into the death of John Leslie Parker and John Dickman, who were the victims of a boiler explosion accident at the State metal quarries at…

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Boat Swamped. Man Drowned. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 5

After a boat had been swamped and overturned at Hawkesbury River yesterday, one of the occupants, Roy Donnelly, aged 28,…

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Miner Injured. Fall Down Shaft. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 5

William Dorrington, 21, a miner, fell down the shaft at Balmain colliery to-day and sustained injuries to his back and abrasions…

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Accident to Motor 'Bus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 4

A mishap occurred to one of the Marble Bar 'buses on Saturday afternoon, while on a trip from Kurri Kurri to West Maitland, but the…

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Drowning Fatality to Children Lose Lives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 3

St. Paul's River, at Royal George, 12 miles from Avoon (Tas.), was the some of a tragedy on Wednesday night, when a boy and a girl lost their lives by…

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Boating Fatality

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 4

Arter a boat had been swamped and overturned on the Hawkesbury River yesterday one. of the occupants, Roy Donnelly, aged 38, endeavoured to…

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Martin's Creek Fatality. Coroner's Enquiry. Accidental Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 6

Evidence in the enquiry into the recent explosion of a boiler at Martin's Creek was concluded at the West Maitland Court House yesterday…

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Miner Injured. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 5

While coming out of the Pelaw-Main nine after knocking off work, Joseph Arundale a miner, fall and broke his arm…

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Boating Fatality (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 2

After a boat had been swamped and overturned on the Hawkesbury River yesterday, one of the occupants, Roy Donnedly, aged 38, endeavoured to…

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Three Injured. Lorry and Sulky Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 3

Three people were taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital by the Newtown-Marrickville Ambulance as the result of a collision between a sulky and a…

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 4

A man named J. Eile, working in Abermain No. 1. Colliery, in No. 7. pillars, was injured yesterday, and was carried to the surface. Kurri…

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Curious Gun Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 1

A Toowoomba message states that a curious shooting mishap occurred while James M'Bride, a fencing contractor, was at work, and his two sons went…

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Mining Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 January 1924 · page 4

Two accidents at collieries were reported yesterday. Joe Jack, employed at the Belbird colliery, sustained injuries to the ribs, and was…

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Tram and Motor Collision at Broadmeadow. Six Severely Injured. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 5

A collision occurred between the motor 'bus "Wattle," and an incoming Wallsend tram at Broadmeadow about 8.30 this morning. The tram…

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Accident at Brickworks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 4

Mr. Charies G. Viney, an employee of Baker Bros. brickwords, living in Newcastle-street, East Maitland, was tamping a hole when the rod broke,…

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