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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

2,369 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 119

Train Derailed. Accident Near Scone. Traffic Delayed. Scone

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 5

The "meat" train was derailed to-day three miles north of Scone. All traffic on the northern line has been delayed…

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Speedway Accident. Driver Trapped Beneath Car

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 16

To be pinned beneath a car which overturned when travelling at 60 miles an hour, and to escape without serious injury, was the experience of…

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Fractured Skull Victims of Motor Accidents Three in Hospital. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 7

Three men were admitted, to hospital last night suffering from fractures of the skill, caused by a motor car and motor cycle accidents…

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Train Derailed Accident Near Scone

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 6

The "meat" train was derailed on Thursday three miles north of Scone. All traffic on the northern line was delayed. The Glen Innes mail was…

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Injured in Motor Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 4

During the holidays Mr. and Mrs. J. Wardrop, of Singleton, met with an accident, as a result of which Mr. Wardrop is in Parramatta…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 4

Charles Hohanson, aged 36 years, a single, man, living at Edward-street, Kurri Kurri, and employed at Pelaw Main Colliery, as a minor,…

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Motor Accidents Two Persons Killed at Kew. Five Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 2

Two men were killed and five other persons injured, when a large motor car left the roadway at a bend in High-street, kew (Vic.), and…

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Three People Injured. Police Inquiring for Car Driver

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 2

Three people were injured on Saturday evening when a motor car, supposed by the police to have been stolon ran on to the footbath in Old…

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Drowning Fatality. Boy Loses Life in Dam. the Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 3

The inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of john Michael Dever, aged 14, who was drowned in a dam at East Maitland…

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Drowning at Largs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 4

The inquest regarding the death of Frederick william Percy will be held at the West Maitland Courthouse on Monday afternoon next…

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Drowned in Woniora River Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

The body of a man which was found in the Woniora River, near Liverpool, on Saturday has been identified as that of George Wiseman, aged 52, of…

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Car Over Pavement Three Persons Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 4

Three persons were knocked down and critically injured by a speeding motor-car on the Old South Head Road, Waverley, on Saturday…

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Shark Attack. Man Badly Injured. at North Bondi

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 4

Maxwell Steele, aged 19 years, of Violet-street, Waverley, was attacked and horribly injured by a shark at North Bondi on Saturday afternoon…

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Farmer's Sacrifice Saved Child From Falling Tree. But Himself Was Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 5

Reginald Wrench, 39, a farmer, of Bathurst, died in the Parramatta Hospital last night. On April 13, he noticed a…

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An Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 5

Lavers used to keep the accommodation house somewhere, about the spot where J. H. Smith has his milking yards, and Mrs. Brown kept the…

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Serious Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

A serious accident happened to Mr. Henderson, railway signalman at Bulliac, on Sunday. He was in the brush gathering staghorns and fell…

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Melbourne's Fatal Accidents Cars Cause Six at Week End. Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

The toll of deaths over the weekend from accidents numbered eight, six of which were as a result of motor smashes…

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Injuries to Hand Pelaw Main Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 8

J. Johansen, 36, miner employed at Pelaw Main olliery, and resident of Edward-street, Kurri Kuri, was [?]mitted to the Kurri District…

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Jammed by Car Carpenter Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

Alexander McRac, 46, a carpenter, was seriously injured this morning as a result of being jammed against a fence at Leichhardt by a motor…

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Eminent Painter Charles Sims' Tragic End. Drowned in River. London, April 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

The death of Charles Sims, keeper and trustee of the Royal Academy and the Trustee of the National Art Gallery, is a…

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