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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 101

Terrific Crash Motor Bus Strikes Pole. Boy Killed: Ten Injured. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 5

A motor lorry, in which 12 boys and youths were travelling to their homes from the swimming baths at Brighton Le…

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Bellbird Colliery Idle Protest Against Delayed Compensation Payment. Case of Injured Workman

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 4

Bellbird Colliery was partially idle yesterday and entirely so to-day, as a protest against the non-receipt of compensation by a certain employee…

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Fell Through Viaduct Kurri Kurri Inquest Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 5

Walking along the railway line between Farley and West Maitland on December 1st, Arthur Shaw fell through a viaduct, and received…

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Swerved to Avoid Collision One Killed, 15 Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 1

Claude Rowan, aged 12, was killed instantly, and Stanley Waterhouse, aged 14, was critically injured on Monday night when a motor-lorry hit a post…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

Alfred Whitehouse, 53, of Bourke-street, West Maitland, a minor, employed at Ayrfield Colliery No. 1, sustained a large lacerated wound,…

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Foot Amputated. Motor Cyclist Severely Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 8

Terrible injuries were received by Ronald Vricy, 27, of North Sydney, when the motor cycle he was riding collided with a motor car on the Lane…

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Struck by Horse Mother and Children. Infant Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

An unusual accident, which resulted in the death of the 10 months' old child of Mr and Mrs H. Jackson, occurred on the Bowen-road, a mile from…

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Air Tragedy Injured Victims Still Seriously Ill. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Air Pilot Somerville and Air draftsman Milgate, victims of the Windsor air smash, are still too - i11 to be interviewed…

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Tragic Smash Collision in Blinding Snowstorm. Seventeen Persons Killed Bellevue (chie), Jan. 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Seventeen persons are known to have been killed, including four women, and fifteen were taken to hospital on Tuesday…

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Boy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 6

C. Fulford, five, living at Portland street, Horse Shoe Bend, West Maitland, received a probable fracture of the arm, near the elbow, when he…

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Drowning Fatalities. Two Men Lose Their Lives in Victoria

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

John Boyle, 21, was drowned at Sorrento, Victoria, while swimming out to a boat from the jetty at Point King. Efforts at resuscitation lasting…

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Detonator Explodes Road Worker Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 2

Barney Cornier. (33), Stanley-street, Bankstown, an employee of the Main Roans Bhard, picked up a detonator at 17-Mile Camp yesterday…

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Shocking Aeroplane Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

A Moth aeroplane which, with another machine of a similar type left Richmond aerodrome about 10.30 on Monday crashed on a farm outside Windsor half an hour…

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Diving Accidents Two Men Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 6

Two bathing accidents, in which the victims both suffered injuries to the spine, occurred last night. James Owen, 24, of Alfred-crescent,…

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Schoolboys Drowned. Yowie Bay Tragedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 6

On Thursday afternoon three schoolboys sailed out to sea at Yowie Bay, hoar Miranda, in a derelict flat-bettomed boat…

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Fatal Collision Driver Committed for Trial

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

At Penrith on Wednesday the local Coroner concluded his inquiry into the deaths of Anna Haigh and Isobel M'Fayden, who were killed when a big…

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Young Man Injured Attacked by Crocodile. Cairns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

There was a sensational incident on the local esplanade last night whon a young man. Kevin Conley, was attacked by a crocodile, which…

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Boy Injured. Jumped From a Cart. Denman

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

Master Max Duggan, son of Mrs. Frank Duggan, who is spending a holiday on the farm at Denman, met with an accident which resulted in a bad…

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Twelve Injured Motor Lorry Overturns. Mothers Frantically Seek Children

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

There were frantic scenes on a roadside near Singleton when a motor lorry, driven, by Mr. T. A. Kermode containing 11 Passengers, mostly…

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Lorry Overturns Many Passengers Injured Women and Children Have Narrow Escapes

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 6

Remarkable escapes from death were experienced on Wednesday evening, when a loaded motor lorry on which were seated twelve…

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