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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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A Strange Accident. Broad Arrow

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1901 · page 3

While the second-class battleship underer" was on her way from [?] Dock to Davonport, an accident occured to her guns,…

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Railway accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 2

Early this morning a man named James Adam attempted to get on a moving train at Croydon Station. His feet were badly…

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The injured gunners

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 2

Over two hundred pounds have been raised for the three wounded Imperial gunners who met with an injury in Sydney recently, owing…

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Storm fatality at Too-woombs

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

In a storm which occured at Toowombs a house was blown down. Eliza Shultz a woman of 66 years was crushed to death…

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Bathing accident. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 January 1901 · page 2

Mr Phegan, a resident of Waverdey, was about to plunge from a, height at the Bondi bathe when his footing gave way. Falling on…

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[?] Train Accident next Sydney. Fnins Deaths, Twenty. There Injured. Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 February 1901 · page 2

A train left Sydney at 5.55 last night for Ha[?] The [?] and two front curs left the line while going at top speed near…

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Latest Particulars. SYDNEY, Monday. Condition of the injured

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 February 1901 · page 2

The condition of the injured at Prince Alfred Hospital is generally uneastisfactery. Matthew Doyle, the engine driven,…

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A Terrible Railway Accident. Smash Up at Sydenham. Nine Killed; Twenty Two Injured

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1901 · page 2

On Friday evening last week a few minutus past 6 o'clock, the 5 55 p m. fast train, Sydney to Burstville, was wrecked just outside Sydenham station. The…

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Terrible Railway Catastrophe. On the Illawarra Line. Seven Persons Killed, and 25 Seriously Injured

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 6

ON Friday evening a few minutes pan 6 o'clock, the 5.55 p.m. fast train, Sydney by Hurstville, was wrecked just outside Sydneham station. The wreck was caused…

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A fishing fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

Cuthbert Jones a lad of 14 years was while fishing washed off the rocks at Bluefish North Head by a wave and was drowned his father,…

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Drowned in swimming baths

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

Alfred Watkins aged nineteen was [?] in the swimming baths at Broken Hill…

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Drowned in a mining dam

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

Alfred Brinsmead of ven was drowned in a mining dam at Bendigo…

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The Sydenham Railway accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

The patients from the railway smash at Sydenham on 15th inst., and who are lying at the Prince Alfred Hospital are progressing…

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Mining accident at Bendigo

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

George Turner a miner was killed by an explosion at the [?] gold mine [?] He placed a drill in an old hole when…

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Another fisherman drowned

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 March 1901 · page 2

Charies Scott, aged seventeen, was fishing near the mouth of Curl cud lagoon, Mauly, when he was washed off the rocks and drowned…

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LONDON, Monday. Blue jackets drowned in Bantry Bay

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 March 1901 · page 2

By the capsisisg of a host in Bentry Bay, Ireland, seven blue ack[?] of H.M.S. Resolution were browned…

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Accident to the s.s. Ouraka

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 March 1901 · page 2

The steamer Ourska in berthing at the Victoria Dock, Melbourne, collided with the jetty at the entrance to the dock. A big hole was…

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Fatal lorry accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 March 1901 · page 2

A driver of a lorry, Charles Hodder, was crushed between the vehicle and a post at the North Melbourne brick works to-day…

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SYDNEY, Monday. Fatal tramway accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 March 1901 · page 2

William Bingham, an engineer, residing at The Globe, was run over by a tramear at Pyrmont on Saturday night. He was taken to…

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Accidentally Shot

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 2

A lad was playing with a pistol in Cleveland Street, Sydney, on Saturday night, when the weapon became discharged the contents…

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