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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Accident to a Child

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Maggie Farrell, the little girl who accidentally full into a tanpit in an abandoned tannery at Paddington, and who was admitted to Sydney Hospital in an unconscious…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Fall Down a Lift Shaft

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 5

Yesterday afternoon a boy named Richard Johnstone, 14 years of age, who resided with ids parents at Marshall- street, Stanmore, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital suffering…

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Accident at North Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 5

A boy named C. Mason, when in the act of climbing a tree at Lavender Bay on Thursday, lost his hold, and fell to the ground. On being taken to the North Shore Hospital for…

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The Fatal Accident at Wentworth Falls

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 5

LAWSON, Friday.--An inquest was held to-day on the body of Percy Fitzpatrick, who was found dead at Wentworth Falls. He had been visiting his aunt, and left…

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Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 6

On Saturday morning, an accident [?]urred at Rookwood, when a contractor named George Armstrong, 49, had his left leg fractured. Armstrong, who resides in Jam[?]on-street,…

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Cart Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 2

The young son of Mrs. Waller, who was so seriously injured some time ago by being thrown from a buteber’s cart is able to get about again. He was attended by Dr. Lloyd…

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Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 2

About two weeks ago the Hon. L. F. Heydon, of Mary-street, Hunter’s Hill, bad a splinter driven into his foot, from the effects of which he was compelled to lay…

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Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 10

On Thursday evening, as a little girl named Melehan, residing with her parents in Went-worth-street, was lifting a saucepan of boiling from the fire, the vessel capsize[?], the…

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Accident at Pennant Hills

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 4

Mr. R. Maher of Pennant Hills was thrown violently from a trap on Sunday last, and in addition to receiving a number of bruises, his right arm was fractured. Dr. Kearney’s…

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A Girl Drowned at Gordon

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1895 · page 7

AT about 1.30 p.m. on Friday three young girls, Katie Smith and J. and E. Pickering, were playing among some waterholes near Gordon, when Katie Smith got beyond her…

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Railway Collision, With Great Loss of Life. LONDON, January 11

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1895 · page 5

An official enquiry was held to-day into the railway collison which took place last month at Chelsford, on the London and North-Western line, when thirteen…

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Accident on the Ice. a Skating Casualty. LONDON. January 11

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1895 · page 5

An accident happened this afternoon on the Serpentine in Hyde Park. The ice suddenly gave way, when more than a hundred skaters were immersed…

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Drowning Accident in the Harbor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 5

At 6.30 p.m. yesterday, a salting boat, Willi three occupants, capsized off Smith's Wharf, Miller's Point, and a lad named Arthur Robert Roper, 15 years of age, who…

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Drowning at Gordon

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 3

A magisterial inquiry was held on Saturday at Lindfield, on the Milson's Point-Hornsby line, on the body of a girl named Katherine Matilda Smith, who was drowned…

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Rescue From Drowning

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 3

A man named Joseph O'Neill was admitted to the Sydney Hospital this morning in an unconscious condition. He was rescued from drowning at the foot of…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Girl Drowned at Gordon

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 5

On Friday last a girl named Kathleen Smith, aged 14 years, went picnicking in company with two other girls up the Lane Cove River. About 1.30 in the afternoon…

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A Girl Drowned. Accident in Lane Cove River. the Inquest

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 3

The circumstances surrounding the death of a girl named Kathleen Smith, 14, who was drowned white bathing in the Lane Cove River, formed the…

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Harbour Capsizes. a Youth Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 5

The strong north-easterly breeze which sprang up during yesterday afternoon resulted in the capsizing of a large number of small sailing boats in the harbour, and in one case a youth named…

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Shocking Fatality at Glanville. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred on the premises of the Railway and Works Department, Glanville, to a workman named Edward Fitzgerald. He was engaged in fixing a bracket on a wall of an…

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