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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

2,459 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 123

Four Injured. Skid Causes Car Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 14

Four persons were injured when a motor cur skidded and crashed into a telegraph post it Moore Park early on Sunday night…

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Boys' Eye Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 6

William Davis," 14½, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Davis, of Hamilton West, is an inmate at the Newcastle Hospital, due to an unfortunate…

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Miner Injured. Accident at Richmond Main. Kukri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 6

Hans (Hugh) Hug, 41 years of age, a miner, residing in Haleyon-street, Cessnock, was admitted to Kurri District Hospital to-day, suffering from…

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Motor Fatality Little Boy Succumbs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 9

James William Marshall, 4. died the St. George District Hospital from injuries received through being knocked down by a motor car on…

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Four Killed New Zealand Crossing Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 3

An express train crashed into a motor car, driven by a farmer named Mellroy, at Ongarue crossing (N.Z.), The car was carried 30 feet over a…

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Drowning Case. Mystery Cleared Up. Not Joseph Allen

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 9

The mystery surrounding the Identity or the youth who was drowned in the Hunter River, north of the Belmore Bridge, on the night…

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Little Boy Killed Motors in Collision

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 14

Albert Dukes, a boy of three years, was fatally injured on Saturday afternoon at St. Marys, when a motor car and a motor cycle and sidecar…

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Killed by Motor Bus. a Sydney Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 1

While crossing the roadway at Central-square, Sydney, to the tramway waiting shed, on Wednesday afternoon, an unknown man, about…

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Spine Injured. Tall Terminates Fatally

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 14

Falling 18 feet from a building in course of election at Abbotsford (Vic.) Chares Larkin, a middle-aged man, of Ascot Vale, sustained spinal…

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Woman Drowned Escaped From Private Hospital. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 14

Mrs. Victoria Khaury, 21, of Wollongong, escaped from a private hospital at Coogree last night. This morning her body was washed up on…

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Labourer Drowned. in Three Feet of Water. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

Frederick Vickers, a labourer, was drowned at Lawson's Creek, six miles from Mudgee, in about three feet water…

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Launch Wrecked. One Man Drowned. Four Struggle Ashore. Auckland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

The launch Marcia, while attempting to cruise around North Cape, crashed ashore in heavy seas. A huge wave washed the dechhouse…

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Many Injured. Motor 'Bus Crashes. Adamstown Sensation. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

Three people were injured, and fourteen others received minor abrasion, when a motor bus crashed into a building…

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Tramps Luck Out Peculiar Motor Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 3

Bernard Sheehy, of the Railway Parade, Leura, was travelling home with a tramp, whom he had picked up near the Anzac Memorial…

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Severe Wound. an Unusual Accident. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 7

Antonio Mustrico was the victim of an unusual accident to-day. He was sharpening a knife on his machine in Castlereagh-street, when…

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Woman Killed. Racing Car Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 9

During motor races on the 90-mile beach, Mrs. Spender was killed in stantly and four others injured at Auckland…

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An Accident. Stranding of Steamer Kallatina

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 9

A preliminary inquiry into the stranding of the steamer Kallatina on a reef near Cairns during the recent cyclone, was held…

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Speedway Accident. Three Riders in Spectacular Fall

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 14

Three motor cycle race riders were injured in a double collision at Smithfield Speedway (S.A.) on Saturday…

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Hit by Iron Plate Power House Accident. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 4

George Halbert, aged 25, received internal injuries and a severely crushed left arm, and Sidney Hamilton, aged 17, scalp wounds and shock, at the…

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Aberdare Resident Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 4

Through a motor car, in which he was a passenger, skidding, and crashing into a letter pillar box, while being turned from Hunter-street,…

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