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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

1,908 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 60 of 96

Big Tram Smash Cars Crash Into House. Two Passengers Killed. Twenty-five Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 8

A terrifiC train smash occurred, near M'Mahon's Point wharf, North Sydney, on Thursday morning. Two passengers were killed and 25 injured. One…

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Ran Into Motor. Accident at Mayfield

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 9

Colin Crawford, aped four years, living at Mayfield (Newcastle), was running across Maitland-road near Nile-street, when he dashed into a…

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Accidentally Shot. Schoolmaster in Serious Condition

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 9

William Gibsen, a young man schoolmaster of the Public School at Darralume, nine miles from Dubbo was found on the back verandah of…

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Olympic Tourists. Accident in Dublin. London, Aug. 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 2

A car carrying R. Jones (V.). S. E. Ramdsen (V.). A. W. Winter (N.S.W.) and Purdie (N.Z.) to the Dublin station this morning crashed into a…

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Amazing Accident Woman Steps Into Open Liftwell

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 8

Mrs M'Guire, wife of Dr. M'Guire, of Lachlan Flats, Coogee, while, carrying a baby, stepped into an open liftwell on Wednesday, and in now in…

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Tractor Fatality. Man Killed Another Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 3

Bruce Sinclair was killed and Sydney Lake seriously injured by the overturning of a tractor, on which they were working near Gympie…

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Boy Severely Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 4

Albert O'Brien, while leading a horse at Edithville, Miller's Forest, was severely hurt through the horse galloping away with the boy's arm…

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Three Injured. Motor and Sulky Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 3

Three children were injured, one seriously, a sulky smashed, and a horse hurt, when a motor car collided with a sulky near Sutherland…

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Broken Limbs. Accidents at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 3

Harold Cambridge, 13, living with his parents at Hamilton, fell from a gate at his home and fractured his left collarbone…

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Revolver Accident. Death of Youth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 3

Albert Thomas, 16, of Globe (Sydney), died on Saturday as a result or a bullet wound in his side. According to information given to…

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Peculiar Accident. Caused Through Motor Skidding

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 3

Through a motor lorry, which was being towod by another lorry, skidding and crashing into a telegraph pole at Newtown (Sydney), George…

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Accident on East Maitland Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 4

Mr. Jack Cains, of Newcastle, a traveller for Toohey's Brewery, was injured this morning. He was in a motor car, driven by Mr. Frank…

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Head Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 4

Through falling and striking his head against a bolt on a railway waggon last night, Mr. A. Stoneham, a shunter, living in Scott-street,…

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Railway Fatality. Body Shockingly Mutilated

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 4

William peters, aged 17 years, employed as a clipper at Richmond Main Colliery, jumped from a moving train on Monday afternoon between…

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Football Casualties Four Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 2

Saturday's football matches were responsible for several accidents to players. Dave Johns (Dungog Souths)…

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Drowned in a Shaft. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 5

James Butler, 65, fell 20 feet from a bucket into several feet of water down a shaft at Petersham to-day, and was drowned…

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Motor and Sulky Collide Three Children Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 3

Three children, were injured, one seriously, a sulky smashed, and a horse hurt, when a motor car collided with a sulky near Sutherland on Sunday…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 4

R. O'Brien living in Robin-street, Horseshoe Bend, and emplyoed at Astonfields Colliery, received a painful lacerated wound to his left…

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Bolting Horse. Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 4

A sensational accident was witnessed at Petersham. A wggonetto overturned with its two occupants and the horse holted along…

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Nearly Suffocated. Ardlgen Tunnel Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 7

In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Drummond asked Mr. Ball, Minister for works and Railways in view of the accident at the Ardglen Tunnel, when…

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