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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

2,051 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 64 of 103

Caught in Belting. Accident at Taree Milk Factory

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 5

W. Algie, an employee at the Taree Milk and Freezing Company's factory at Chatham, had his clothes torn off by machinery whilst at work…

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Colliery Accidents. South Greta and Hebburn. High Court Appeals

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 5

The South Greta Colliery, Limited, and Hebburn, Limited, appealed to the High Court from the judgment of the supreme Court with regard to the…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 13

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

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Accidents

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 6

A remarkable mishap occurred to a 2 1/2 ton truck Federal lorry, belonging [?] Messrs. N. and A. Moore, or El[?]derslie, on 29th ult. It appears that…

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Two Accidents in One Household

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 6

Two members of the family of Mr and Harry Edmonds, of Dunolly, met with accidents on Wednesday afternoon. Elva, aged two years and…

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Cars in Collision. Four Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 5

A motor car collision occurred at Moorabbin last night. One car was overturned, and it was sometime before the occupants…

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Stable Hand Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 5

A stable hand named Bamford was riding the black gelding Raise Chan on the cinders track at Kensington this morning, when the stirrup…

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Motor Cyclist Killed Collision with Motor Van

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 2

Returning to Melbourne from Kilmore on Saturday after a mishap, which prevented him from taking any further part in the Victoria Motor…

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Car Through Fence. Two Persons Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 2

Two people were seriously injured. when a motor car crashed through a fence bordering Point Nepean head near Sorrento on Saturday afternoon…

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Motor Cycle Race Fatality. English Rider Killed. London, Aug. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 5

During the Belgian Grand Prix motor cycle race, the British rider Hollowell, died from injuries received in a fall owing to his machine…

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French Disaster. Bathing Fatalities. Eighteen Boys Drowned Paris, Aug. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 4

A bathing disaster of the most shocking consequences has occurred near Boulogne, where thirty-five small children whose parents worked at the…

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Head Injured. Affray at Islington. Four Men and Two Women Involved

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 August 1925 · page 6

Four men and two women were involved in an [?] at the intersection of Devon and Chinchen Streets, Istington, on Saturday night…

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Fatal Collision. Death of Mrs. Sadler

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 2

As the result of injuries received in a collision on Point Nepean-road on Sunday between two motor cars, Mrs. Margaret Sadler aged 70 years, of…

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Thirteen Children Drowned Tragic End of Picnic

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 2

Paris, Sunday.—It is reported fromBoulogne that 35 children, belonging to a school colony, were bathing' at Hardelot when a big wave caught a…

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Latest Estimate Is 18 DROWNED. (By Cable.) Paris, Sunday Night

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 2

Reuter's Paris correspondent gives later details of the bathing fatality atRoubaix, when a large number' of children were caught in an incoming tide…

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Motor Cycle Fatality Pot Holes In The Road Thrown Over Handlebars

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 7

Au inquest touching the death of John Russell Alexander, who was found lying unconscious, partly beneath a motor cycle, on the Cessnock…

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Fatal Fall. Verdict of Accidental Death. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 4

Mr. C. Brown, District Coroner, held an inquest at the Cessnock Court House yesterday, into the circumstances surrounding the death of John…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 August 1925 · page 4

Mr. T. Parsons, a miner, employed in pillars in the east section of Hebburn Colliery, was injured in the head by a piece of falling coal on Monday…

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Struck by Belt. Man Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 August 1925 · page 7

Leslie Harold Rice, 20, was fatally injured at Cedar Log Mill, near Tyringham, on the Dorrigo. Deceased was "tailing out", when one of the…

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Farmers Injured. Run Down by Tram. Unlucky Delegate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 August 1925 · page 6

Two delegates to the conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association were run down and injured by a tram at Rawson-place, Sydney, last night…

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