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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 46 of 101

Accidents with Firearms Youth Killed, Another Wounded

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 2

Keith M'Martin, aged 18 years of Kogarah, was killed when a shotgun accidentally expleded in the bush near Picton yesterday afternoon. A few…

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Footballers Injured Lorry and Motor Car in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 2

Six members of a football team were hurt when a motor lorry, on which they worn travelling along Windsor road collided with a motor…

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Painful Accident. MR. F. R. Flanders Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 2

Mr. H. Flannders sustained a painful accident at his home "Morlancourt," on Friday morning. Mr. Flanders had risen early and was…

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Fifteen Injured. Motor Van Overturns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 3

A motor van carrying 20 people, while travelling from Diamond Crock to Greensborough on Monday evening, was struck by a violent gust of…

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Boys Injured. Playing with Gunpowder

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 1

Walter and Edward Winner, aged 15 and 13, of Cassilis, accompanied by a young man of over 20, were walking through the bush near their home at…

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Live Wire. Brought Down in Car Smash. Three Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 4

When a touring car and a sedan collided at Fitzroy this morning, the latter crashed into an electric light standard…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 2

While on his way to Martindale on Wednesday evening, and when driving through a dense fog, Mr. E. R. Hope's car collided with a…

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Pea-rifle Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 1

The danger of carelessly using pearifles was again demonstrated yesterday, when Charles Ryan, 15, of Cebramatta, was hot in the face, just…

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Timber-worker Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 3

Another cleverly organised attack upon a limber worker was perpetrated at Glebe at dusk last night. Two men sprang upon a home-going timber…

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Slashed with Razor Man Terribly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 4

With a deep out, extending from his right shoulder, across his chest, almost to the other side of his body. Harry Lavigne, 21, of Chessel-street…

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Died From Shock Sequed to Collision. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 2

When two motor lorries came into collision in Canterbury-road, Canterbury, last evening, Howard Becton, [?] suffered so severely from shock…

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Struck by Car Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 June 1929 · page 6

While riding a motor-cycle on the Maitland-Newcastle Road, at Tarro, on Wednesday afternoon, Francis Merrick, aged 20 years living at…

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Impaled on Shaft. Motorist Shockingly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 June 1929 · page 3

When a head-on collision occurred at Richmond (Vic) between a motor car and a milk cart, Charles Brain (43), was inpaled on a shaft of the…

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Prince Henry. Injured at Polo. Vancouver, June 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 June 1929 · page 7

Prince Henry suffered the fracture of a collarbone when his mount silpped and fell while he was playing in a polo game here to-day…

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LOCAL & GENERAL Accident to Fitter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 June 1929 · page 6

Wallace Stansbury, 36, fitter, of Kearsley, was struck by a crane at Eirington Colliery yesterday, and received a fracture to the right arm…

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Impaled on SHAFT.s Injured Man Dies.s

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 8

Charles Brain, 43, of Drummoynestreet, Carlton (Vic.), who was impaled on a shaft of a cart when his motor car collided with it on…

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Head Jammed in Bed Frame Pathetic Story of Baby's Death at Bellbird. Coroner Returns Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 1

Mr. J. T. Richards (District Coroner) conducted an inquest, at Cessnock Courthouse on Wednesday, concerning the death of Arthur…

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Footballers Injured Lorry and Motor Car in Collision

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 3

Six members of a football team were hurt when a motor lorry, on which they were travelling along windsor-road, collided with a motor…

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Runaway and Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 8

A horse bolted from in front of Street and Parish's store, along the main road, and collided with a car being driven by Mr. Tull, of Stratford…

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Boys Injured Gunpowder Explodes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 14

Walter and Edward Winner, aged 15 and 13 of Cassils, accompanied by a young man of over 20, were walking through the bush near their…

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