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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Railway Accident. Trucks Crash Into Mail Train. Rockhampton

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

A south-bound goods train, being unable to take a sharp ascent, was forced to divide. Half the train proceeded to…

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Training Accident. Colt Crashes Into Rails. Sydney

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

At Kensington this morning, the jockey, H. Griffiths, was riding an unnamed colt, when the animal became frightened and crashed into…

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Accidents and Fatalities. Burnt Ot Death

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

In a two-roomed slab hut at Allan dale, in Friday night, and old man, 70 years of age named Joseph Ryan, was burnt to death as he lay sleeping in…

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Injured Knee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 4

Jeffery O'Toole, 18, an apprentice carpenter, residing at Cohen-street. Horsehoe Bend, sustained an incised wound on the outside of the right…

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Ellalong Fatality. Jockey's Injuries Verdict of Accidental Death. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 14

At the Cessnock Courthouse this morning, Mr. G. Brown, District Coroner, held an inquiry into the death of Henry Oswald Curtis, who…

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Motor Fatality. the Hexham Smash

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 7

An inquest was held by Mr. C. [?]ble, the district coroer, o Friday afternoon, at the Newcastle [?]thouse, into the deaths of Ronald…

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Tram Fatality. Young Man Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 4

William Boardman, aged 28, of Warron-road, Marrickville, was killed when he fell out of a tram at Marrickville last evening…

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Three Killed and Seventeen Injured Victorian Motor Accidents MELBOURNE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 13

During the week-end, about a dozen motorcar mishaps, were reported front Various parts of Victoria, resulting in three persons being killed and 17…

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Car and Horse. Collision at Mortlake

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 13

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

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Diver Drowned. Air Line Fouls Reef

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 9

A Japanese diver, Nizo Okuna, about 35 years of age, was drowned while engaged pearling 80 miles from Broome (W.A.), in consequence of the…

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Savage Sow. Woman Severely Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 13

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

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Girl Injured. Motor Driver Charged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 14

At the Central Police Court Colin Charles Sale 18, clerk was remanded on a charge of having by wantonly driving a motor car done bodily harm…

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Compensation Awarded. Injured in Railway Smash

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 9

Edward James Gibson, a postman in the employ of the Commonwealth Government, sued the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales, claiming…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 13

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

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Fatal Collision. Motor Cyclist Killed. Head Crushed by Steam Waggon

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 13

David Robert Williama, a motor cyclist was killed with shocking suddenness in Hunter-street, Newcastle, near Cottage Creek, on 24th ult…

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Another Submarine Disaster. 8.51 Sunk in Collision. Vancouver, Sept. 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 12

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

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Motor Cars Collide Five People Injured. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 6

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

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Fatal Accident. Verdict for £800

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 3

In the Bunce Court, Gertrude Chisholm, widow, and administrator of the intestate estate of Donald Cameron Chisholm, sued James Gibson, of…

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 6

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

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East Branxton Tragedy Death From Accidental Burning

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 October 1925 · page 6

An adjourned inquest was held on Wednesday at Branxton by the district coroner (Mr A. Morrison, J.P.) concerning the death of Edith May…

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