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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

2,012 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 48 of 101

Tuggerah Railway Fatality. Claim for Compensation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 June 1926 · page 6

In the case in which Alice Maud Herford, widow of the Rev. Walter Marsh Herford, is claiming £2000 damages against the Railway…

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Aberdeen Smash. Injured List Added To

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 June 1926 · page 7

The number of persons injured in the Aberdeen railway smash has been added to Mrs. J. R. Gainsford whose husband is a member of the…

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Two Injured. Jammed Between Girders. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 June 1926 · page 5

Stanley Williams, aged 26, a dogman, of Kensington, and Victor Sherlick, 28, a labour[?] of Annandale, received abrasions and contusions when…

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Collision in Fog the Searle Monument Broken. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 June 1926 · page 2

The monument erected in the Parramatta River at Henly, in memory of the famous sculler, Harry Searle, and at which all championship sculling races…

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Fall of Potatoes Three Men Injured. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 June 1926 · page 2

The steamer Chillagoe, which arrived from Tasmania yesterday, had on board a consignment of 17,500 bags of potatoes, and a consignment of…

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The Injured Recovering

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 2

Latest reports stats that all those he were injured in the smash, with the exception of Mr Warde Morgan, who is still in a rather precarious c[?]…

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Heavy Damages. Tuggerah Railway Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 3

The hearing was concluded in Sydney, before Mr. Justice Ferguson and a jury of four, of the claim for £2000 damages made against the…

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Fell Under Tram. Man Severely Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 6

Geoge King, of Sans Souci, is an inmate of St. George District Hospital, in a critical condition, as the result of having his leg severed by a…

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Child Drowned. Dragged Into River by Pram. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 5

Alma Hudson, aged one year, is reported to have been drowned in Edwards River, near Moulamein. It is though the…

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A Riding Accident. Miss Una Hall

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 9

There passed away, under sad circumstances, in the Scott Memorial Hospital. on Monday evening, Miss Una Hall, daughter of Mr. Albert…

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Tests at the Scene of Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 1

Mr. Foster (Commissioner) and Mr. Rankin, (Engineer-in-Chief for eixsting lines) again visited the scene of the accident on Thursday…

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List of Previous Accidents

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 2

Previous accidents which have occurred on the railways of this Stale are as follow:— Peat's Terry Smash, June 21, 1887…

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Action for Damages Motor Lorry Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 June 1926 · page 6

A claim made by George Perry Evans, of Randwick, on behalf of his tour-year-old son, Leslie Perry Evans, for £1500 damages against Priest…

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The Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1926 · page 14

Miss Cusack was discharged from Scone Hospital yesterday, leaving eight patients still in the institution. Of the six injured who were in…

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Aberdeen Smash. Injured List Added To

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1926 · page 5

The number of persons injured in the Aberdeen railway smash lias been added to. Mrs. J. R. Gainsford, whose husband is a member of the…

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Archdeacon Harris. Injured in a Fall

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1926 · page 14

Archdeacon Harris was seriously injured when he slipped and fell on the footpath at Rochdale on Sunday night while on the way to conduct service at…

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Car Capsizes. Girl Severely Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1926 · page 8

Pix people had a remarkable, escape from serious injury when a motor car capsized at Clifton Hill, near Melbourne, yesterday…

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Two Injured. Jammed Between Girders. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1926 · page 5

Stanley Williams, aged 26, a dogman, of Kensington, and Victor Shelick, 28, a labourer, of Annandale, received abrasions and contusions when…

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Racehorse Injured Touched Fallen Electric Wire. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1926 · page 5

Serious injuries were sustained by the racehorse Bugler Boy, when he came into contact with an electric wire which had fallen from a pole…

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Three Injured. Collapse of Stack of Potatoes. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1926 · page 7

Three men were injured when a stack of 50 bags of potatoes fell on board the steamer Chillagoe, in Darling Harbour, to-day…

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