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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

2,012 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 101

Huge Blaze McILRATH'S Burned Out Firemen Injured. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 2

One of the most disastrous fires in recent years occurred in Sydney last night, when the five-story grocery emporium of…

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Car Crashes Into Tree Eight Persons Injured. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 6

Eight persons were injured, when a touring motor car crashed into a tree near Cranbourne, Victoria, and capsized…

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Romance of Glass. Discovered Accidentally

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 11

An ancient crystal-gazer, peering into his mystic sphere in an Egyptian temple, many centuries before the Christian era foretold the future, and…

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Car Overturns. Several Persons Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 March 1926 · page 3

Nowell Oldfield of Lockhart, lies in Junee Hospital in a critical condition with severe injuries to his head and chest as a result of his…

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Three Injured. Motor Car and Motor Cycle Collied

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 March 1926 · page 5

Three persons were injured when a motor car and a motor cycle collied at Huristone Park on Sunday Robert Brown aged 18 of…

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Fierce Battle. Angry White Invades Chinatown. Four Celestials Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 March 1926 · page 3

Retreat-street, Alexandria the headquarters of Alexandria's Chinatown was the scene to a miniature battle on Saturday afternoon when…

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Accident in High Street

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 March 1926 · page 4

Mr. E. Jenkins his wife and child had a narrow escape on Sunday evening in High Street. Mr. Jenkins was driving down the street…

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Fireman Killed. Three Others Injured. Collision with Motor. 'Bus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 6

One fireman was killed and three others injured when the hose carriage from the Hoddle-street fire station Melbourne while going to a…

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Car Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 5

Mr. Wallie, of Cessnock, was driving his car, at Mayfield, last Sunday, in which were also his wife and family, when the car…

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Leg Amputated. Tram Ticket Examiner Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 5

Charles Dohrman, a tram ticket examiner, was about to board a tram in Queen's Square this morning, when a motor lorry crashed him…

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Miner Injured. Run Over by a Skip. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 2

Robert Johnson, son of Mr. R. Johnson, of Burton street, Kurri, sustained a probable broken fool, caused by an empty skip running over it…

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Knocked Down by Motor Car. Mr. Fitzsimmons, M.l.a., Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 3

Mr. W. R. Fitzsimmons, M.L.A. one of the members for Cumberland was admitted to Sydney Hospital last night suffering from a…

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Accident at Flying School Plane Wrecked

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 March 1926 · page 2

Another accident occurred on Friday at Point Cook (Vie.). Flying School. Before crashing into a hangar a 'plane struck Clifford Roach, aged 24, an…

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Newcastle Accidents. Three Persons Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 3

Zona Burns, aged 15 years, an employee at the Steam Laundry, Islington, and living at Islington, had her left hand crushed through being…

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Fall of Coal. Miner Injured at Burwood. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 5

George Ba[?]lew, 45, a resident of Robert Street, Wallsend, was injured by a fall of coal at Burwood Colliery this morning…

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Jockey Injured. McKENNA Junior Receives Concussion. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 5

The lightweight jockey, McKenna, [?] was [?]ising an unnamed two-year-old in Randwick, when the youngster slipped and fell. McKenna…

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Caught by Wire. Accident at Ryland's Works. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 5

A man named MeLardy, of Bu[?] Street. Adamstown, employed as a wiredrawer at Rylands Bros. works, Port Waratah was caught by a wire…

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Train Guard Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 4

Mr. Harold Kiely, 36, of Lee street, West Maitland, a guard on the South Maitland Railways, sustained severe contusions to the right…

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Infant Killed. Mother Seriously Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 2

Mrs Sarah Booth, aged 42, of Argyle-street, Fitzroy (Vic.), and her daughter, Kathleen, aged 4 1/2, years, were knocked down by a…

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Two Men Killed. Two Women Injured. True Falls on Motor Ca[?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 2

While a party of [?]otorists was driving through Loganholme (Q.), a dead tree fell on the front of the car, killing two men instantly and…

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