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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

2,051 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 79 of 103

Three Killed and Seventeen Injured Victorian Motor Accidents MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 5

During the week-end, about a dozen motor car mishaps were reported from various parts of Victoria, resulting in three persons being killed and 17…

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Car and Horse. Collision at Mortlake

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 3

A woman and a boy were injured when a motor car and horse came into collision at Moridale on Sunday. Nurse Gore, of Lakemba, was…

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Savage Sow. Woman Severely Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 3

Attacked by a savage sow with a bitter of young pigs, Mrs. Thomas Dalgleish, of Woodonga, says an Albury message, was knocked over…

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Wallace Mortlake Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 5

It transpires that Wallace Mortlake, after taking part in the Warwick Farm Spring Cup on Saturday, was in a bad way. His off fore…

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Girl Injured. Motor Driver Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 5

At the Central Police Court, Colin Charles Sales, 1-8, clerk, was remanded on a charge of having by wantonly driving a motor car, done bodily harm…

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Burning Fatality. Old Man's Death. Charred Remains in Hut Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 3

The charged remains of an old ago pensioner named Joseph Ryan, aged 70 years, were found at Allandale in the ruins of a two-roomed slab-hut…

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Another Submarine Disaster. S.31 Sunk in Collision. Vancouver, Sept. 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 September 1925 · page 5

The United States submarine, S.51 sank 14 miles off Long Island, after collision with the steamer City of Rome…

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Accident at Colliery Man Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 1

H. Gardiner, a married man, employed at St. Heliers' Colliery, met with a sevene accident at the mine on Friday night. It appears that…

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Over Embankment a Car Fatality. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 2

While driving from Caramut Penshurst on Saturday night, a car, in charge of Constable Richardson, ran over an embankment. Walter…

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Motor Accident Result

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 2

Colin Charles Gale, 18, was remanded at the Central Court on a charge of having by the wanton driving of a motor car done bodily…

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Jockey's Death Ellalong Racing Accident Evidence at the Inquest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 7

An inquiry douching the death of Henry Oswald Curtis, a jockey, who died in the Cessnock District Hospital on Wednesday last as a result…

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1925 · page 7

Whilst Hurry Gardiner, aged about forty years, and foreman of screens at St. Hellers celliery, about three miles from Muswellbrook, was on…

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Injured by Fall of Coal

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 October 1925 · page 2

Miner W. Eyre jumped back just in time to dodge a big fall of coal while he was working at the Red Head Colliery on Tuesday…

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Motor Oar Accident

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 October 1925 · page 2

Mr J. G. aged 35, a married man, residing in Macquarie-street, Singleton, was the victim of a bad accident on Monday evening. Mr Nash is…

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Jockey Injured

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 10

In the first [?] of the Flying Handicap, at Pokolbin races on Saturday, F. Ponton, the rider of Alzone. was injured about the head…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 10

On Tuesday afternoon a young man named Walten met with a nasty accident in Westcott Street, Cessnock. He was riding his motor cycle along…

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Two Injured. Swept Off Steps of 'Bus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 2

Two men, who are said to have been riding on the steps of a crowded motor 'bus, were swept off their precarious position and flung to the road by a…

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Cars Collide. Five People Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 5

Five people were more or less seriously injured in a head on collision between motor cars at Toorak late last night…

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A Shocking Accident. Man's Arm Torn Off. Working at a Chaffcutter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 1

A shocking accident occurred at Dartmouth on Wednesday last, resulting on an employee, Thomas Hill, losing portion of his left arm just…

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Motoring Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 1

While driving a mall car near Gulgong, Mr. K. Peebles, of Muswellbrook, met with an accident, in which he sustained a broken rib and other…

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