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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

93 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 5

Cliff Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

On Thursday morning, a boy named White, nine years of age, who was on a visit to this town in company with his mother during the holidays, was amusing…

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Serious Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

A young lad named Cope, about 11 years of age, met with a serious accident at Bulli on Thursday. The boy had been sent with his brother's dinner to…

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Extraordinary Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

MR. ALFRED SHARP, a well-known resident of Newcastle had a miraculous escape from death at St. Clair station, near Singleton, the other day. He was staying with Mr…

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Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 3

Mr. T. Ball's large aerated-water waggon was capsized up the Bulli Pass road the other day. One of the coke waggons was occupying the centre of the…

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Fatal Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 2

ON Tuesday morning last an accident which resulted fatally occurred at the Fox-ground, the victim being Frank Alexander, a little son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick…

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Accidents

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

MR. CHARLES CLOWES, of Longbrush, met with a painful accident last week, he upsetting a can of boiling water over his legs, which were very much scalded…

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Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1900 · page 2

Yesterday evening Keith Lindsay (son of Mr. Geo. Lindsay, Unanderra) while riding a pony near his father's residence, fell off and broke his arm. Under the…

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Boating Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 6 February 1900 · page 2

Two fishermen named Kembla Haworth and Martin Neilsen left this-port for Port Kembla on Sunday morning in a sailing boat, which by some means capsized when…

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Boating Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 8 February 1900 · page 4

Two fisherman named Kembla Haworth and Martin Neilsen left Wollongong for Port Kembia on Sunday morning last in a sailing boat, which…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway Line. Coroner's Inquest

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 2

An elderly man named James Marlow, or Edwards, who for some time has been hawking in this district, was walking along the railway line on Thursday morning a…

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Fatal Accident

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 11

On Thursday morning an old man named John Edwards, alias Marlowe, was killed by the forenoon train from Sydney, while crossing a…

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Sad Drowning Fatality Two Lives Lost

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 2

A SAD accident happened at the Mullet Creek watering place. Brownsville, Dapte, on Wednesday afternoon, resulting in the drowning of a young…

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The Verdict. Accidentally Drowned

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 2

The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the two deceased, Cathorine M'Cormack and Charles Patrick Hore, met their deaths at Mullet Creek by being accidentally…

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Melancholy Fatality

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 10

A sad accident, whereby two young lives were lost by drowning, happened at Mullet Creek, Brownsville, on Wednesday afternoon. The victims were…

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Sad Drowning Fatality. Coach Washed Over Mullet Creek Crossing. a Girl and Boy Drowned. Heroic Conduct of the Tries Hard to Save Those Under His Charge. Efforts Unsuccessful. Coach Wrecked and Both

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 2

Late on Wednesday afternoon the residents of Dapto were thrown into a state of consternation by the report that a coach driven by Mr. James Budgen, in which…

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Painful Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 2

Yesterday a lad named Robert Bennett, aged 14, son of Mr. A. Bennett, of Church Hill, had his knee severely crushed between two loaded waggons of coal on the Mount…

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Captured Foreigners and Injured Boers

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 2

Cablegrams dated Sunday last stated that Lord Roberts has captured Count Sternberg, an Austrian military attache and General Baron Von Dam, chief of the Boer artillery,…

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Painful Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 2

A coal-trimmer named Archie Morris, while loading the steamer Koonya at Port Kembla, on Thursday night, fell down the coal-bunker, and sustained very painful…

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Serious Driving Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 2

AN accident of a most serious character, and from which the gravest results are feared, occurred on Sunday evening, Feb. 26th, in the vicinity of Hampden Bridge,…

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Accident at Cordeaux

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1900 · page 2

Our correspondent writes that a sorious accident happened at Cordeanx last week to Mrs. Robert Walker of that locality, who was on her way home from Mount…

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