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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

1,143 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 58

MARKWELL. Drowning Fatality. Body Not Yet Found

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 2

On Wednesday morning two youths named Redman, and an uncle were rabbiting at Markwell, seven miles from Bullahdelah. They came to a…

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Escape From Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 5

Mr. Roy Barnes (30) a farmer living at Greswick, had a barrow [?] from drowning yesterday Mternoon, While onecavouring to crose a…

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Railway Fatality

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 1

William Clarke, aged 45, fettler, was killed yesterday morning in unusual circumstances. He was working on the railway near Petersham, when he…

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Train Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 4

A collision between two electric trains occurred at Killara, near Hornsby, to-day. There was a blinding flash when the collision…

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Train Smash Ten Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 5

Two passenger trains collided in heavy rain at Killara railway station shortly before noon. Ten pernons were injured. The electrical…

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Foot Injured Struck By Tram SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 4

By inches, Reginald Looce, 28, of Randwick, escapod having his foot amputated by the whels of a moving tram last night…

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Boy Swept to Death Brother Nearly Drowned in Attempted Rescue

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 5

Caught by' the strong current while wading into a swollen creek near Mark-' well, Bulladelah, after a rabbit on Wednesday, Keith Redman (15), son of…

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Electric Passenger Trains Collide Ten Persons Injured. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 6

Two electric passenger trains collided in the heavy rain at Killara station shortly before noon, and 10 passengers were injured…

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Two Children Missing One Body Recovered From Water. Diligent Search for Other Child. Also Believed to Have Been Drowned

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 2

When word was received in Scone last evening that two young children Hazel Bramley, 10 years of age, and her brother, Lawrence Bramley, 8 years…

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ACCIDENTAL Jockey's Death SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 4

The City Coroner returned a verdict of accidental dcath on the body of John Troy, jockey, who was killed at Randwlck last Saturday week…

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Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 2

Mr. Archie Smith, employed at the farm of Mr. D. Keleher, met with a serious accident on Wednesday. He was engaged rounding up horses when…

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Double Fatality School Children Drowned SCONE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 8

A downe drowning fatality has occurred. Two children, Hazad Bramley, 10, and Lawrence Bramley, 8, left for…

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Three Drowned Boat in Squall

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 10

When the yacht Sea Witch capsized in a squall off Rottnes't Island (Fremantle), William Gibson, 63, Cyril Gibson 35, his son, and…

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Adze Slipped Boy Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 4

David Gower, aped 16, of Bolwarra Heights, West Maitland, recevied an incised wound to the inside of the left foot as the result of…

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Cyclist Injured Run Down by Car Bad Visibility Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 9

Poor visibility. during the showers of last evening, is blamed for an accident which occurred in Vincent-street…

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Ascot Smash Accidental Death Air Tragedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 3

The City Coroner (Mr. E. A. May) held an inquest into tho death of Leonard' Alison Palmer aged 28. clerk, and Albert. Edgar James, aged…

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Double Tragedy at Scone Two Children Drowned

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 April 1931 · page 2

Dragging operations in a creek at Scene on Friday yielded evidence of a double tragedy. The body of Lawrence Bramley, aged eight years, was…

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Three Drowned Harbour Tragedy Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1931 · page 8

Two men, George Williams, 20, married, with a wife and three children, and Jack Petifer, 33, married, and a boy, "Bobby" Parker, 14, were…

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Drowned in Surf Rescuer's Fate Dragged Under Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1931 · page 6

While attempting a surf rescue at Collaroy Beach yesterday afternoon, George Smith Greenwell, 17, of lorne Avenue,…

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Leg Fractured Abermain Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1931 · page 4

As the result of an accident at Abermain on Saturday night, Mrs. J. McDonald, 55, of Hay-street, Abermain, was admitted to the Kurrl Kurrl…

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