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193 Oct 10 Gallant Youth – Humane Society’s Recognition of Canal Rescue
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
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 Apr Boy’s Fall from Lock Gate – Drowning Tragedy at Swinton
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