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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

2,051 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 103

Crushed by Cage. Sewer Worker Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 5

While working in a sewer shaft at Croydon to-day, Allan Cullen, 46, was caught by the descending cage used for haulage purposes, and…

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Motor Fatality Driver Committed for Trial

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 April 1925 · page 4

The inquiry into the deaths of John Gurr, an elderly man, and Mary Gurr, his wife, who were knocked down and killed by a motor car on…

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Railway Crash in Queensland Several Passengers Injured. (By Telegraph.) Brisbane

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 April 1925 · page 2

While a passenger train was backing towards the water tank at Guthalungra, near Townsville, a coal train crashed into the rear guard's van. The…

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Crushed by Descending Cage Man Seriously Injured. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 April 1925 · page 2

While working in a sewer shaft at Croydon to:day, Allan Cullen, aged 46, was caught by the descending cage used for haulage purposes and badly…

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Tram Accident. Compensation for Enmore President

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 April 1925 · page 6

Mrs. Thirza Taylor, of Enmore, sued the Railway Commissioners in the Sydney Jury Court for £1000 compensation, in respect of injuries she received…

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Serious Accident Three Fingers Severed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 9 April 1925 · page 7

An acident attended with serious results befel Mr. Fred Ayrton, of the Cessnook Co-operative Butchery, shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday…

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Train Smash. Collision Near Townsville. Several People Injured. Brisbane

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 4

A passenger train was backing towards a water tank at Guthalungra, near Townsville, when a coal train crashed into the rear…

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Motor Fatality. First Accident at Forster

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 9

Arthur Piper, the five-year-old son of James Piper, of Forster, died at an early hour on 4th inst. of injuries sustained last evening, when…

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Burning Fatality. Child's Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 16

The death occurred 2nd inst. of Lily King, 4 years old, daughter of Ebenezer King, of Pokolbin. Early in the week the child was…

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Tram Accidents. Two Persons Injured at Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 9

Betty Smith, aged six years, a school girl, living, at Mayfield, fell out of a tram at Bridge street, Waratah, and sustained lacerations to…

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Five Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 14

Five occupants of a motor car, travelling along Anzac-parade, Kensington, on Sunday night, were injured when the car stuck a telegraph post…

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Constable Seriously Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 14

When engaged in cleaning a motor car in Bourke-street, Paddington, on Sunday afternoon, Constable Humphries was jammed up…

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Fourth Victim. Victorian Crossing Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 4

Mrs. Emily Griffiths wife of the late Mr. James Griffiths head of the firm of Griffiths Bros ten merchants died on Friday she id the fourth victim of…

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Sea Tragedy. English Authoress Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 16

Upon the arrival of the Moreton Bay at Hobart from Sydney, the captain reported that when the vessel was steaming between Gabo and…

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Motor Accidents. Girl Killed at Annandale. Two Others Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 14

Shortly before eight o'clock on Saturday night a motor car, driven by Anatole Ivanoff, aged 30, of Parramatta, and containing three…

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Fatally Injured at Mosman

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 14

As a result of a smash between a motor car and a road-sweeper, in Spitroad, Mosman, early on Sunday morning, George Curill, 31, married, driver…

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Sydney Fatality. Stepped in Front of Motor Lorry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 11

A man named Bernard Gomersell, 42, who lived at Redfern, was killed by a motor lorry in Oxford street, Darlinghurst, on Friday afternoon…

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Clergyman Injured. Car and Cycle Collide

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 7

Rev. G. K. Tacker, rector of the Anglican parish of Adamstown, was injured as the result of a collission on Tuesday afternoon, between the motor…

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Clan Monroe. Dutch Vessel's Collision. London, April 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 2

The steamer clan Monroe which left Sydney of February 7 and Fremantle three weeks later for continental and British collide with the Dutch…

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Crushed by Cage. Sewer Worker Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 5

While working in a sewer shaft at Croydon to-day, Allan Cullen, 46, was caught by the descending cage used for haulage purposes, and…

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