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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 101

Driver Falls Asleep. Fatal Motor Accident. Hobart

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 3

The only explanation given of a fatal motor accident in which the driver of a motor van was killed and several people were injured, is…

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Women Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 14

When two motor cars met head-on collision at Campsie late on Sunday afternoon three women were injured. Mrs. Harrict Tunks of…

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Electrocuted. Another Fatality at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 4

Edward Fahey, of 8 Robert street Wickham, was electrocuted while at work on the line running out to the new sewage treatment works at…

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Washed Overboard Two Seamen Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 9

The Finnish barque Ponape, which reached Williamtown (Vic.) on Friday with a cargo of timber from Sweden, encountered a terrific gale in the…

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Surfer Drowned Attempting to Rescue Woman

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 7

Herbert Ramsay, 29, married, was drowned on Tuesday at Warrnambool. A young woman go t into difficulties, and Ramsay went to her…

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Immigrant Drowned Swept Away on Flood Water

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 16

An Atherton (Q.) message states that John Draper, an immigrant, aged 17 years was swept off his horse on Sunday while attempting to cross the…

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Crushed by Stone Miner Fatally Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 11

Crushed by a fall of stone while be was at work at 9.45 on 28th ult., Andrew Richard Manby, a brusher at Stockton [?] Colliery, was…

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Child Drowned Capsize of Rowing Boat. Mungindi

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 3

Lilliam Martyn, aged two, was drowned when a rowing boat, containing three adults and five children, capsized on the Barwon River…

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Woman Killed. Two Men Injured. Motor Car Overturns

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 9

When a motor car overturned near Pendle Hill, early on 1st inst., a young man was killed and two men were injured…

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Car Over Embankment. Two Men Injured. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 1

Two persons were injured when a motor car left the road in King. Edward Park, just after midnight, and toppled over a 15ft embankment…

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Air Collision. One Pilot Killed. Other Jumps Clear. London, March 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 12

Flying Officer Scaly Allien was killed in mid air in a collision between his airplane and another at Kenley. The pilot of the oilier machine,…

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Throat Slashed. Woman Terribly Injured. Husband Missing. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 7

Mrs. May Depena, 41, who was found in a house at Redfern late last night, with two deep gashes in her threat and wounds in the forehead…

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Overturned Lorry Crashes Into Pole. Trainees and Officer Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 5

Six trainees and an army officer, were injured whon a lorry, conveying them to Liver-pool camp, crashed into a pole…

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Head Injured. Struck with Piece of Wood. Assault at Drinking Party. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 6

William Wallace, 85, of Turrnmurra, was found staggering about the street at Granville last night, suffering from serious head injuries,…

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Windows Shattered. Motor Cyclist Crashes. Sensational Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 16

A sensational accident, which culminated, in a young man being taken to the Maitland Hospital, occurred at J. P. O'Brien's…

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Man Killed. Blasting Accident at Ardlethan

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 16

John Thomas CAsey (24) died in the Temora Hospital from injured received at the Ardlethan tin mine. Casey was engaged in blasting. He…

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Two Killed Week-end Motor Accidents. Melbourne Tragedies. Cycle and Car Collide

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 14

Elizabeth Myrtle Connel aged 35 years of Montague, was killed whim the sidecar and a motor cycle driven by her husband came into collision…

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Cessnock Resident Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 4

Harold Augustus Daly, 33, of King-street, Cessnock, was drowned while bathing at Yarra Bay, near Sydney, on Sunday. The body was observed…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 4

Roy Waight, 21, living at Wallsend-road, Sandgate, fell from a motor cycle in High-street, West Maitland, and received slight concussion,…

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Crashed. New Zealand Airman Badly Injured. London, March 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 8

The New Zealander, H. F. Muse, who is planning a flight to New Zealand, was badly injured when a machine was wrecked in a crash near…

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