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193 Oct 10 Gallant Youth – Humane Society’s Recognition of Canal Rescue
`193 Oct 80 Bus in Ditch – Twenty-five Passengers in Mexborough Vehicle
1880 Sep    The Fatal Accident in Conisborough Tunnel.
1881 May    Alarming Explosion at Mexborough – One Person Killed
1887 Aug    The Sad Burning Case at Mexboro’
1888 Oct    Singular Drowning Case – The Results of Spitting.
1889 Mar    Mysterious Death on Railway At Conisborouoh – Sad End of Mexborough Apprentice  .
1889 Apr    The Drowning Case At Mexbro’
1889 Jun    Accidents at Denaby Main Colliery.
1889 Jul    The Drowning Case At Mexbro’
1889 Jul    A Mexbro’ Collier ” Buried Alive.”
1889 Oct    Mexborough, Man in Accident at Denaby Main Colliery
1890 Jan    The Drowning Case at Swinton Pottery.
1890 Feb    Another Distressing Accident at Denaby Main Colliery.
1891 Apr    A Pitch In of Mexborough Buses
1891 Apr    Chapter of Accidents at Mexbro’ Montagu
1891 Apr    Alarming Cage Accident at Denaby Main.
1891 Jun    Sad Drowning Case at Mexboro’ – The Effects of Drink.
1891 Jul    Scene with a Traction Engine – Boy Killed.
1891 Sep    Alarming Bus Accident
1891 Oct    Narrow Escape
1892 Jun    Serious Accident at Mexborough
1892 Sep    Shooting Accident at Mexborough – Critical Condition of Sufferer.
1899 May    Found Drowned At Mexboro’.
1899 Aug    The Mexborough Drowning Case.
1899 Oct    Curious Death at Mexborough – Eating Mussels and Ice-Cream.
1899 Nov    Shocking Death of a Mexboro’ Child.
1899 Dec    Sad Sequel To Snowballing
1902 Jun    Killed at Play at Mexborough.
1902 Jun    Singular Accident at Mexboro’ – Little Girl Killed.
1902 Sep    Child Run Over At Mexboro’.
1902 Nov    Alarming Fire at Mexborough
1905 Dec    Mexborough Scaffold Accident
1907 Sep    Servant Girl’s Fatal Stumble.
1908 Aug    Mexborough Cyclist’s Accident
1908 Sep    Mexboro’ – Barnsley Football Match – Sad Sequel – Windle Dies from Lockjaw.
1908 Nov    Swinton Man’s Tragic Death – Killed At Rotherham Statutes.
1908 Nov    Amazing Epidemic of Fatal Accidents – Four Colliery Disasters & Two Drowning Cases
1909 Jan    Exciting Rescue – Mexboro’ Girls’ Peril – A Plucky Deed.
1909 Feb    Railway Fatality at Mexboro’ – Foreman Shunter’s Terrible Death.
1909 May    Alarming Accident – Engine Turns a Somersault – Driver & Fireman’s Miraculous Escape
1910 May    Death of Mr. F. Handley, Conisboro’ – Sequel to a Doncaster Street Accident.
1911 May    Boating Fatality – Boy Drowned – Accident Caused By Wooden Leg
1911 Aug    Mexboro’ Girl’s Death – Heat and Over-Eating.
1912 Apr    Unparalleled Disaster at Sea – Greatest Ship Foundered – Nearly 1500 lives lost
1912 Dec    Missing Swinton Girl – “Found Drowned.”
1914 May    Mexborough Street Accident.
1915 Aug    Fatal Colliery Accident
1916 Feb    A ‘Bus Accident
1916 Apr    Mexborough Club Partly Gutted – £1,000 worth of Damage
1918 Jan    Burning Fatality – Mexborough  Child’s Shocking Death
1919 Apr    Mexboro’ Tragedy – Infant Brothers Drowned.
1919 Apr    Sad Mexborough Tragedy.
1919 Jul    Mexborough Bandstand Burned Down.
1919 Sep 20 Mexborough Youngster Fatally Crushed at Kilnhurst.
1919 Oct    Miners In Peril. – Extraordinary Accident – Cage Overwound.
1921 Jun    Shocking Accident – Roman Terrace Child Killed by Motor Lorry.
1921 Sep    Death from a Fall at Red Lion
1922 Dec    Mexborough Woman Dies During Operation
1925 Apr    Railway Collision – Three Men Killed – Runaway Goods Van & Trucks. 
1927 Aug    Blinded at Play – Mexborough Childs Plight
1927 Nov    Accident in Doncaster Road
1927 Nov    Cycling Accident
1927 Dec    Missing Man From Mexborough – Found Drowned.
1928 Feb    Deadly Don – Mexborough Schoolboy Snatched away by River
1928 Mar    Drowned Boy – Don Gives up its Victim after Three Week
1928 Mar    Bus Fire – Thrill for Passengers at Mexborough.
1928 Apr    Inquest on Accident to 2 1/2 Year Old
1928 May    Child’s Death Following Burns.
1928 Jul    Dog Rescues Child – A Quick-Witted Playmate
1928 Aug    Grocery Shop Fire At Kilnhurst.
1928 Oct    Lucky  Lads ! Five Rescues by Non-Swimmer
1928 Oct    Dying Guard’s Version of Rail Mishap at Mexborough – No One to Blame.
1928 Dec    Drowning Fatality.
1928 Dec    Early Morning Blaze – Cattle Saved, but Crops Burnt
1928 Dec    Engine Derails Trucks – Mexborough Men’s Escapes in Fog Collision.
1929 Apr    Fatal Hesitation – Mexboro’ Woman Killed by Car – Evidence “Not Satisfactory.”
1929 Apr    Roman Terrace Child’s Disregard of Danger – “Pure Accident.”
1929 Aug    A Mexborough Mishap
1929 Aug    A Wonderful Recovery
1930 Apr    War Souvenir Mishap – Mexborough Man’s Shrapnel Wounds
1930 May    Fatal Summons – Boy Killed at Roman Terrace – Knocked Down by Motor-Cycle.
1930 May    Motor-Cyclists Collide.
1931 May    Mexbro’ Explosion – Shop Window Blown Out – Electricity Plus Gas
1931 May    Motor Smash – Mexborough Lady Killed in Scotland – Disaster on Holidays
1931 Nov    A Fireman’s Funeral
1932 Jan    Casualty List of 1931
1932 Mar    Found Drowned Mystery – A Mexborough Mystery
1932 Apr    Mexboro’ Man Killed At Denaby – Struck By Girder- Back Broken
1932 Apr    Shop Fire – Dangerous Outbreak – Considerable Damage
1932 Jun    Cyclist Killed – Collision with Van at Old Denaby
1932 Aug    Cross Roads Crash – A Well-Known Tradesman Killed
1932 Aug    Cross Roads Crash – The Mexborough Car
1932 Aug    Cross Roads Crash – The Victims
1932 Aug    Fall from Bridge – Boy Killed on Railway – Shocking Injuries
1932 Sep    After The Smash
1934 Jan    Misadventure – Wombwell Man’s Fate – Found On Line
1934 Jan    Sad End – Mexborough Man’s Discovery
1937 Jun    Amazing Escape – Mexborough man survives aeroplane crash
1937 Jun    Schoolboy Hero – Child Rescue From Canal
1938 Feb    Rescuer’s Sprint To Canal – Child Pulled Out Just In Time
1938 Jun    Plucky Rescue.
1938 Sep    Fatal Hesitation – Boy’s Death in ‘Bus Accident at Mexborough
1939 Jan    Broke His Neck – Walking Again
1939 Feb    Car Crashes into Tram Standard
1939 May    Inquest On Wath Shunter- Run Over By Wagons
1939 May    Youth Thrown Into Don- Death Due To Heart Failure
1942 Feb    Killed On Way From School – Child Asked To Come Home Alone
1942 Aug    Accident – Cyclist & Pedestrian
1942 Dec    3 Killed In Road Crash – Lorries & Motor Cycle Collide at Warren Vale
1942 Dec    Fair Ground Tragedy at Mexborough
1942 Dec    Open Verdict – On Victims of Warren Vale Road Smash
1943 Jan    Boy Cyclist Killed – Mexborough Business Family’s  Tragic Loss
1943 Apr    Boy’s Fall from Lock Gate – Drowning Tragedy at Swinton
1944 Feb    Mr. W. S. Pettit – Death After Fall
1944 Apr    Canal Rescue at Mexborough
1947 Mar    Conisbrough Sledge Tragedy – Boy Under Trolley Bus – Mate’s Lucky Escape “Warning To Others”
1947 Jul    Smart Rescue at Mexborough – Denaby Girl Saved From Canal
1947 Aug    Balby Rail Crash – “Second Dunkirk” – 68 victims – 7 Local Casualties (video)
1947 Oct    Trolley Bus Accident
1947 Oct    Young Mother Killed – Shocking Accident in High Street
1947 Nov    Road Accident to Popular Mexborough Teenager
1947 Dec    Mexborough Rescue – Veteran Dies Of Burns
1948 Nov    Girl Killed as Bus Hits Cyclists
1949 Jan    Goalkeeper’s Death – Year After Mishap in Thurnscoe Match
1949 Aug    Mexboro’ Canal Rescue Hero Did Not Give His Name
1951 Feb    Charles Hanmer’s Inquest At Wetherby
1951 Apr    Dog Saves 10 People – “10 Minutes More, We Would Have Been Burnt to Death”
1951 May    Car Accident
1951 May    Car in Front Garden – Lucky Seven at Mexborough
1951 Aug    Ran Down Six Flights of Stairs To Rescue Boy
1951 Sep    Indian Doctor’s Confession – Wife’s story at Mexboro’ Inquest
1951 Sep    Three Killed In Crash – Builder’s Lorry Turns Over
1951 Oct    Inquest on Adwick Motor-Cyclist – Inexplicable Crash on Straight Road
1951 Nov    Accident Victim at Cleethorpes
1951 Nov    Mishap in Vast Hitler Stadium (footnote)
1951 Dec    Gallant Swinton Rescuer – ‘You Have a fine Son”  
1951 Dec    Rescue Parchment for Brave Mexborough Boy 14
1957 Jun    Mexborough Man, 57, in Rescue Bid at Canal Lock
1957 Nov    Adwick Road Accident
1957 Nov    Chain of Sheets Rescues Family After A House Fire
1958 Jun    Boy’s Quarry Fall – Expedition Nearly Led To Disaster
1958 Jul    Brother Rescues Brother at Boston
1958 Sep    Mexborough Fireman Called
1959 Jan    A Crowded Hour – Mike Hawthorn
1959 May    Bluebell Heroine Rescues Boy from Canal at Old Denaby by His Hair
1959 May    Local Accident Statistics
1960 Sep    “Found Drowned” Verdict on Mexboro’ Boy
1968 Jan    Gale Tree Damage
1969 Feb    Mexbro’ Man Defies Creaking Ice to Save Family Pet
1969 Apr    Mexborough Boy Dies on Swinton School Holiday in Switzerland
1970 May    Two Killed – 2 Hurt in Evening Crash
1bar Aug 90 Runaway Van – Collision with ‘Bus