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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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A Boy Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 3

A boy named James Samuel Fell, son of Mr Robert Fell of George-street, Canterbury, was accidentally drowned about 7 o'clock on Sunday night. The boy, who was about 12 years of age,…

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A Cricketer Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 3

While playing cricket at Little Coogee on Saturday Mr. Norman Turnbull, eldest son of Mr. N. W. Turnbull, J.P., of Messrs. Gollin and Company, met with a serious accident. Turnbull, it appears,…

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The Injured Jockey

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 6
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Cook, the jockey who was seriously injured at the Randwick racecourse on Saturday afternoon, and who was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital for treatment, was at a late hour last night still in an unconscious condition…

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The Coogee Cliff Fatality. the Inquest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 6

The City Coroner, Mr. Woore, held an inquiry at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday into the death of Jacob Lowis, who fell from a cliff at Coogee on Sunday morning. Deceased, who…

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The City Council. the Recent Bathing Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 6

At to-night's meeting of the City Council the Mayor, Alderman W. L. Kidd, submitted a minute with reference to the censure passed upon the council by the jury at the inquest held on the bodies, of the…

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Northern Notes. The Bathing Fatality---Reference in the Council. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 3

At last night's meeting of the City Council reference was made to the lamentable bathing fatality, which occurred on the bench on Saturday…

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The Rain in Queesland. Cyclonic Weather Experienced. a Sad Boating Fatality at Glad. Stone. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 5

A splendid rainfall is reported over the whole of the south-eastern portion of the colony from the coast to the main range, and also a heavier fall on the Darling Downs tableland, a conciderable…

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Racing Accidents. Cook's Condition Critical

Evening News · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 3

Several accidents occurred at the Randwick races on Saturday afternoon. As reported in our late editions of Saturday six horses fell in the Anniversary Handicap, and Shaughraun was…

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The Como Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 4

A young man named John Goode fell over an hotel balcony at Como on Anniversary Day, as reported in the "Evening News" of Friday last. Goode, who resides at Rockdale, was fearfully…

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The Randwick Racing Accident. Cook's Condition Critical

The Australian Star · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 7

Inquiry at St. Vincent's Hospital late this afternoon elicited the fact that the jockey Cook, who was so seriously injured at Randwick on Saturday last during the…

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The Como Hotel Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 6

The young man, John Goode, who was admitted to St. George Hospital on Anniversary Day, suffering from severe injuries, the result of a fall from the balcony of the Como Hotel, is in a precarious condition…

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Twenty Children Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 6

LONDON, January 31.—Twenty children have been drowned while skating at Warpuhnen, in Prussia, the ice having suddenly given way…

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A Woman Poisoned. Mysterious Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--An inquest was held to-day into the circumstances of the death of Mary Frances Cameron, widow, at South Melbourne on Friday last, Evidence was given by…

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Disaster in Prussia. Twenty Children Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--News of a terrible disaster has been received from Prussia. Whilst large numbers of people were skating on a lake at Warpuhuen, the ice…

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Country News. a Plucky Rescue From Drowning. Bombala

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 5

Nungatta Station, some 20 miles from here, was the ecene of a plucky rescue from drowning on Sunday. Mrs. Weatherhead, wife of the owner of the station, accompanied by her two children and Miss…

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The Coach Fatality. Death of Mr. Pattison

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 4

PORT MACQUARIE, Wednesday Morning.— Mr. G. Pattison, the passenger who was injured in the coach accident yesterday morning, died last evening. Dr. Boelke, on arrival at Kew…

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A Skating Disaster. Twenty Chlldren Drowned. London, Jan. 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 7

Twenty children have been drowned while skating at Warpuhneu, in Prussia, the ice having suddenly given way…

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Fatal Coach Accident. Disastrous Effects of a Falling Tree. The Driver Killed---A Passenger Severely Injured. LAURIETON

The Australian Star · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 7

As Keough's mail coach was proceeding to Taree and Port Macquarie, and when it was five miles from Kew, a tree was blown across the vehicle. It killed the driver,…

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The Como Accident. Death of Goode

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 3

Mr. John Goode, who fell over the balcony of the hotel at Como on Anniversary Day, and has since been lying in the St. George's Cottage Hospital at Kogarah, succumbed to his injuries…

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