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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

1,341 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 68

Two Injured Motor-cycle Struck Horse NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 5

David Cowle, 25, of Redhead, sustained a fractured skull, concussion, lacerations to the right hand, and severe general abrasions to the side…

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Child Drowned

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 6

Max Job, 7, was drowned while bathing in three feet of water and within sight of this mother at Wellington municipal baths on Monday afternoon…

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Three Injured Coalfields Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 2

While working in Abermain No. 1 Colliery a prop fell on William Home and crushed his hand. He was admitted to Kurri Hospital…

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Hotel Destroyed Fire at Gloucester Boarder Injured Gloucester

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 7

The Royal Hotel at Gloucester With its contents, was destroyed by fire only this morning. Boarders and members of the staff escaped in their…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 4

Mr. Bert. Mitchell, head telephone mechanic of Bullahdelah district, met with a serious accident during the course of his work on a pole near…

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ACCIDENT. To Len. Egar

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 2

Mr. Len. Egar is a patient in Dungog Hospital as the result of an accident on Tuesday. Mr. Bert. Tickle was driving his two-ton lorry on the Black…

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Coal Flew Miner's Eye Injured WESTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 7

Mr. Bart Taylor; of Weston, employed at Hebburn No. 1 as a miner, received a painful injury when a piece of coal flew from the face, hitting him…

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Fell Overboard Woman's Accident Plucky Rescue Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 1

When Miss Bunce (24) fell into the harbour from the steamer Candada late last night, the second engineering jumped in and rescued her…

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Toll of Road January Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 10

According to an accident check kept by the N.R.M.A. Safety Department, 24 persons were killed and 147 injured in road smashes involving…

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Accident Near Aberdeen Aberdeen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 5

Samuel F. Everest, motor carrier, of Aberdeen, met with an accident whilst returning from Scone. His lorry struck a calvert and overturned…

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Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 6

A Brisbane message states that the body of Leslie Iyan Johns, 18, farm hand, was found in a creek about three miles from Chinchilla on…

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Lodge's Appeal Injured Member

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 6

Some time age the members of the East Maitland branch of the Malichester Unity independent Order of Oddfollows made an appeal to the…

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Fell From Horse Youth Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 5

When he fell from horse at Kurri Kurri on Saturday afternoon, Robert McBlane, 21 of Aberdare, St. Kurri Kurri, sustained a fractured…

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Chinese River Tragedy 400 Drowned Shanghai

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 2

Making the third river disaster in the Yangtse within a few months, belated Hankow messages report that 400 Chinese were drowned when the…

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Fell From Tram Critically Injured SYDNEY, Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 1

Claude Mallion (50), fell from a moving train in North Sydney to-day, and was critically injured. He was admitted to hospital in a dying…

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Car Over Fell Into Gravel Pit Woman Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 2

Mrs. J. Wagland, of Moree, had a remarkable escape from serious injury, when her car overturned into a grave pit…

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Sixteen Killed Rail Motor Crash Many Injured Rome, Feb. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 1

Sixteen were killed and 11 Injured at Loghorn when a rail motor travelling at 75 miles per hour crashed into a train crowded with…

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Three Killed Quarry Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 2

A premature explosion at White Rock'. quarries, Gosnells (W.A.), Monday afternoon, dislodged about 900 tons of rocks, which fell 40 feet…

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Mine Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 7

While working at Pelaw Main Colliery, William Clarke, 60, of Aberdare-street, Kurri, received sovere injuries to his left arm through…

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Struck in the Eye. Painful Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 2

Mr. Bart Taylor, a Hebburn No. 1 miner suffered a painful experience when a piece of coal flew from the face and struck him in the eye. He…

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