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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

2,369 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 119

Still Unconscious Injured Motor Cyclists. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 14

Frederick Hamilton and Bonner, who were injured in a collision between motor car and a motor cycle in Contennial Park last…

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Tragic Escapade Alleged Stolen Car. Three Detained and One Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 14

Leslie John Chisholm (20), was drowned and his three companions, George Peters (20) Gladys Jeffries (19), and Jean Smith (17), were…

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Chain in Points. Melbourne Express Derailed. Nobody Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 14

The limited express, Melbourne to Sydney, was derailed near the Uranquinty Railway Station on Saturday. The three following divisions were…

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Three Injured. House Collapses During Storm. Brisbane

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

During a heavy storm at Dagun. three members of a family named. Comersall, were injured when their house was lifted off the stumps…

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Explosion in Rubbish Woman Injured at Broken Hill

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

Mrs. Con Peterson (22) put some, rubbish under the copper at her home, at the corner of Lane and Chloride. directs. Broken Hill, and shortly…

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Teacher Killed. Fatality at Upper Stanhope. Fall on to Rocks. Stanhope

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

Thomas Harrigan, 19, was accidentally killed here yesterday afternoon. He went shooting with his brother…

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Thames Overflows. London Basements Flooded. Fourteen People Drowned. Terror—stricken People Rescued by Police

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 12

As a result of flood water from the melting snows meeting an unusually high tide, the Thames overflowed in the early hours of Saturday morning. London was flooded and many people were…

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Two Killed. and Eight Injured. Explosion in German Village. Berlin, Jan, 8

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 12

A thunderous explosion apprised the citizens of Dahlem, a village occupied by experimenting chemists, that a garage had been…

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Sixteen Killed Twenty Seriously Injured. Explosion Wrecks Berlin Residential. BERLIN, Jan. 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 12

A mysterious explosion early this morning occurred at a house in Berlin, in which there were many occupants. who were…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 8

Inspector A. Morris, of the Railway Department, Newcastle, met with a painful accident at Glonnio's Creek on Tuesday morning through…

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Fatality at Adelaide

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

Fraser Home, aged 18, a prefect of Scotch College, dived into shallow water, in the Victor Harbour baths, Adelaide, on Saturday…

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Telephonist Injured Lightning Strikes Lines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 3

A telephonist attached to the staff of the Wagga exchange had a narrow escape from instant death. Miss Joan Drummond was seated…

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Man Killed. Three Seriously' Injured Car Overturns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 3

A man was killed and three members of the same family were seriously injured when a motor car struck a depression in the road on…

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Dynamite Explosion Workman Killed Six Injured. New York, Jan. 13

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

One workman was killed, and six dangerously injured by an explosion of dynamite in the shaft of a New York subway under construction…

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Test Case Pending. Treatment of Injured Miners. Hospital Payments. Cessnock

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

Owing to the difficulty experienced by Cessnack District Hospital in securing settlement of claims for treatment of compensation cases under…

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Diving Accidents Struck Rock at Neilsen's Park

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

Arthur Goddard, aged 25 years, a porter, of North Sydney, was injured on Sunday afternoon when be dived into shallow water near the…

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Accident to Cars

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

As is generally the case on Sundays, motor traffic on the Maitland to Kurri Kurri road was heavy last evening, and three curs met with…

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Shooting Fatality

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 2

A sad shooting fatality occurred at St. Clair on Friday evening, when James Maclean Henderson, aged nine years, was shot, dying about a quarter…

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Railway Fatality. Some Remarkable Evidence

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 8

An inquest was conducted at the W. Maitland Courthouse on Wednesday afternoon concerning the death of George St. Clair Strickland, aged 19 years, of…

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Train Strikes Car. Clergyman Seriously Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 2

A train collided with a motor car at the Rongotea-Longburn crossing, near Palmerston North, (N.Z.), [?] the Rev. Walter Spencer Tremain, a…

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