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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

3,466 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 174

South Australia. Fatal Railway Accident at Glenelg

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Annie Brady, aged 17, was run over and totally injured by a train at Glenelg yesterday evening. The deceased was a servant in the employ of Mr. J. C. Hamp, solicitor,…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 5

The coroner held an inquest at the Lloyd Hotel to-day on the body of a man named Walter White, found drowned in the harbor this morning, as reported on page 2. Deceased, until lately, was…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 2

The body of a man name unknown was found floating in the water this morning on the east side of Fort Denison. It was removed to the Quay Morgue by the Water Police, where it now lies…

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First Aid to the Injured

The Australian Star · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 7

After the football is over, After the Held is clear, Straighten my nose and shoulder, Help me to find my ear…

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Accidents

Evening News · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 3

A girl aged 4 named Myrtle Ahearn died yesterday from the effects of burns received on Tuesday last. Deceased, who resided at Frederick-street, St. Peters, was cooking apples, when her clothing…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Evening News · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 5

An Inquiry was held to-day by the coroner at St. Peters touching the death of a child, aged 4, named Myrtle Ahearn, who died, yesterday from the effects of burns received some days previously…

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Accident

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 10

The Parramatta wharf was the scene of a painful accident, which might have proved fatal, on the 7th inst., Mr. John French being [?] appears the was stand…

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Serious Accident to Ex-mayor Slee

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 5

On Friday evening about a quarter past seven, the two ponies driven by Mr. Slee took fright and bolted, and notwithstanding his strenuous efforts to check them they…

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Accident at the Railway Station

The Australian Star · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 4

Charles Parker Ayling, a Riverstone storekeeper, 72 years of age, arrived from Now Zealand this morning, and was waiting at Redfern…

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Fatalities and Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 10

SUDDEN DEATH OF A MASTER MARINER. John Pinto, the master of the schooner Oscar Robinson, dropped dead at midday yesterday on the deck of the vessel at Pyrmont. The body was taken by the…

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Accident to a Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 10

A girl named Fanny Walker, aged seven, was admitted at St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from concussion of the brain. The child was playing with some companions at her parents' residence,…

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The Arrest of Butler. How He Was Secured. Captain Frazer's Opinion of Him. Butler Admits That He Knew Lee Weller. States That Weller Was Shot by Accident. (See illustrations and portraits on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 31

Early on the morning of Wednesday, February 3, cable messages were received at Sydney from London conveying the information that Butler, the man who is supposed to be responsible for…

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A Young Woman Injured by Fire

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 February 1897 · page 5

A YOUNG woman named Mary Garvey, whilst helping to extinguish a fire at 64 Elizabeth street, Bedforn (occupied by Mr. Geo. Lenton), last night, had her clothes ignited. She was…

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N.z. Accident Insurance Co

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 February 1897 · page 10

The seventeenth annual report of the N.Z. Accident Insurance Co. shows that the company is steadily progressing on sound lines. The usual dividend of 15 percent. was declared…

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Victoria. Bathing Fatality. a Man and Two Boys Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A sad drowning case is reported from Dandenong, in which James Holland, a railway line repairer, and his son and another boy named Wm. Lee, a son of a…

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Escapes From Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 6

A little girl fell in the river in the Parramatta Park yesterday afternoon, and had a narrow escape from drowning. Fortunately a lot of people were about at the time, and Mr. Easton,…

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Rescued from Drowning

Evening News · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 5

A woman named Bessie Ford was rescued from drowning at the SanB Souci Baths on Saturday. She was swimming across the baths carrying a child on her back, when the latter clutched her round the…

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A Boy Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 5

A boy named Ernest Forguson, aged 7, son of a lighterman, while playing on the wharf yesterday, fell into the river and was drowned…

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A Cyclist in Collision

The Australian Star · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 7

A collision occurred this morning about 11 o'clock at the corner of Bridge and Pitt streets between a cab driven by Robert Cadden and a bicycle ridden…

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Drowned at Rose Bay

Evening News · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 3

A laborer named David Perkins, 24, in the employ of William Clarke, dairyman, North Bondi, was, drowned yesterday at Rose Bay. Perkins, with a fellow employee named Kelly, was…

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