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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

2,051 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 60 of 103

Serious Street Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 July 1925 · page 5

An accident which resulted in a girl being rendered unconscious for a time occurred in Vincent street on Sunday morning. A horse attached…

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Child Drowned. Fell Into Hole in Back Yard

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 July 1925 · page 2

Geoffrey James Shaw one year and nine months old, a son of an accountant residing at Auckland Avenue Clarence Gardens Adelaide was drowned…

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Terribly Injured. Caught in Machinery. Lighgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 July 1925 · page 5

John Mitchell, 21, died in the Lithgow, Hospital as a result of injures received when one foot was caught in machinery at the Lithgow iron works…

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Eight Injured. Serious Warehouse Fire. Vancouver July 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 July 1925 · page 5

A message from Havana states that eight were injured in a fire which destroyed six warehouse on the waterfront at Regin across the bay…

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Woman Killed Wiseman's Ferry Motor Smash. Eight Injured. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 July 1925 · page 5

A serious motor smash is reported from Wiseman's Ferry. It appears that a motor car got out of the control of the driver about seven…

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Collision in High-street

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 July 1925 · page 4

A collision occurred in High-street, [?]car the Technical College, yesterday afternoon, between a motor cycle, with side car, and a cart. On the…

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Shower of Bricks. Workman Seriously Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 July 1925 · page 3

When an archway collapsed at 26 O'Connell-street, Sydney, a building in course of demolition, hundreds of bricks showered down upon a…

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Motor Smash at Wiseman's Ferry Woman Killed and Several Injured. U.S. Sailors Involved. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 July 1925 · page 2

A serious motor smash is reported from Wiseman's Ferry. It appears that a motor car got out of control of the driver at about 7 o'clock last night,…

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Motor Accident on Whittingham-road

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 July 1925 · page 2

At about 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a Maxwell car, owned by Mr Standing, of Broke, and driven by Mrs Standing, was proceeding along…

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Injured Miner

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 4

J. Conlon, of Kurri, who received injuries in the back yesterday at Pelaw-Main Colliery, through a fall of coal, is making satisfactory progress towards…

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Motor Fatality. Driver Committed for Trial

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 4

The inquiry into the death of Daniel Oswald Gallagher, late secretary of the Newcastle Operatic Society, who was killed as the result of…

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Mining Fatality. Killed by Falling Stone

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 4

Another mining' fatality occurred on the South Coast on Wednesday. About three o'clock on Wednesday morning a deputy on duty in the Coal…

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Motor Fatality Driver Committed for Trial

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 7

The inquiry into the death of Daniel Oswald Gallagher, late secretary of the Newcastle Operatic Society, who was killed as the result of…

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Cars in Collision on Denman Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 4

A sensational motoring accident took place yesterday morning on the Denman road, as a result of which the Merriwa mail car, driven by Mr…

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Injured by Fall of Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 7

A fall of coal took place in Abermain No. 2 Colliery yesterday, as a result of which a miner, Mr. John Hannington, received severe injuries…

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Expert Injured. Hand Caught in Brake. Rock[?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 5

Philip Campa[?] a Westinghouse export in the Railway Department, was disma[?] a Westinghouse Brake yesterday which his hand got jammed…

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Over Embankment Wiseman's Ferry. Woman Killed—8 Others Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 5

A serious motor smash is reported from Wiseman's Ferry. It appears that a motor car got out of control of the driver about 7…

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Motor Smash at Wiseman's Ferry. Woman Killed; Others Injured. U.S. Sailors Involved

The Scone Advocate · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 5

A serious motor smash took place near Wiseman's Fery on Tuesday. It appears that a motor car got out of control of the driver at about 7…

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Knocked Unconscious. Motor Cycle Accident. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 4

As a result of a fall from [?] motor cycle last evening, John Russell Alexander, 26 years of age, is now an inmate of the Cessnock district hospital…

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Terrible Accident. Rouen Express Derailed. Thirty-eight Casualties. Paris, July 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 5

Eighteen passengers were killed and twenty injured in a terrible railway accident that occurred, near way accident that occurred near Tours when the express from Round…

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