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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,301 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 66

Remarkable Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

Lithgow was the scene of a a remarkable accident yesterdays a runaway horse attached to a sulky when a runaway horse attempted to a sulky attempted to jump over a motor…

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Children Drowned. Car's Plunge Into River

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 3

The Kempsey Coroner found a verdict of accidental death at the inquest on the deaths of Patricia, John and Irene Barnes, children of Charles…

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Youth Drowned While Learning to Swim

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 10

William Corbett Pye, 18, of Lithgow, slipped from a submerged rock while learning to swim in the River Lett, near Hartley, and was…

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Eleven Killed. Midnight Train Collision. Calcutta. Jan. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

Eleven Indians were killed and 13 injured in a midnight collision between the Peshawar to Lucknow express and a stationary goods train…

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Jockeys Injured. Horses Collide When Training. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 6

The jockeys R. Lee and L. Robertson, were badly injured when their respective mounts, Casise Redfern and Roley, collided on the tracks at…

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Gloucester. Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Ashworth had an accident with his car near Brushey Mountain, and went over a 6-feet embankment. Fortunately the…

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LOCAL & GENERAL Foot Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 4

As the result of trending on some broken crockery, Vincent Kline, six, living at Bridge-street, Homeville, sustained a lacerated wound two…

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Youth Drowned Doctor's Swim to Restore Life

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 6

Ivor Foulkes Parry, 17, a clerk, employed at the Commercial Bank, Albury, was drowned in the Murray River near the Albury waterworks…

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Over Embankment. Two Men Critically Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 6

Two men were critically injured and admitted to Wollongong Hospital following a motor car accident which occurred at the Yallah…

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Motor Accidents Fatalities in Victoria

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 6

In a head-on collision between a motor-cycle which he was riding and a motor car, L. J. Burrows, 24, of Mentone, was killed instantly on…

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Drowning Fatality

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 3

A Maitland girl, named Edna Davies, 16, was drowned in the Hunter River, at Point Clare, East Maitland, yesterday. The young…

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Girl Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 4

The Hunter River claimed another victim late yesterday afternoon, when Edna Davis, aged 16 years, was drowned while bathing at the…

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Sisters Drowned. ADELAIDE

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 5

While their mother, Mrs. R. Eberhard, of Robertstown, was an inmate of the Memorial Hospital with a baby girl two days old, Connie and…

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Injured Man's Amazing Fortitude

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 6

The authorities at Sydney Hospital on Saturday night were astonished when a man with a dislocated and possibly fractured neck…

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Woman Killed Husband Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 4

Mrs, G. Woodhill, 61, was killed on Monday whon her car overturned on the Jervis Bay road. Her husband Mr. George Woodhill, was injured…

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Diver Drowned. on Bed of Newcastle Harbour

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

Andrew Hollerman, 65, was drowned on Monday afternoon while working on the bed of the Newcastle Harbour in full diving dress…

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Wife Killed. Husband Commits Suicide. Child Critically Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

Following a number of domestic disagreements a tweedy at Summer Hill yesterday resulted in the death of a husband and wife and the serious…

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Girl Shot Dead. Gun Discharged Through Accident. Raymond Terrace

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

A fatal shooting accident occurred this morning at Eagleton, when Miss Rita Holbert, in getting into a boat with a loaded gun, slipped and the gun…

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Girl Drowned While Bathing in Hunter

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 1

Edna Davis, aged 16 years, was drowned on Monday afternoon while bathing at the portion of the river, near East Maitland, known as Point…

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Diver Drowned on Bed of Newcastle Harbour

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 1

Andrew Hofferman, aged 65, was drowned on Monday afternoon while working on the . bed of the Newcastle Harbour in full diving dress. It is…

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