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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

3,359 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 168

Accident at the H.I.

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1899 · page 4

Mr. Edwards, one of the attendants at the Parramatta Hospital for Insane, sustained a scalding accident the other day. He was, with the assistance of some of the…

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Disastrous Railway Accident' Four Killed and Many Injured. Frantic Fighting for Life

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 March 1899 · page 8

The annual picnic of the employees at the Islington Freezing Works, held at Ashburton, ended in the worst railway accident that has ever occurred on any…

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Yesterday's Accidents. a Furniture Van Over a Quarry

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 March 1899 · page 7

Yesterday morning one of Mesare. Sutton and Co.'s vans Was being loaded with furniture in Cambridge-street, Paddington, when the horses bolted. First they collided…

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Found Drowned

The Australian Star · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 2

The water police, at about 9.45 this morning, found the body of a man floating in the harbour, near the foot of King-street. It was identified as that of a seaman named E…

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A Railway Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 6

A fatal railway accident happened last night at Leithbridge station. A guard, James M'Carthy, aged 40. who was in charge of one of the Melbourne railway employees' excursion trains,…

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A Seaman Drowned

Evening News · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 6

About 8 o'clock this morning the water police recovered the body of a man which was floating in the water tit the foot of King-street and near Howard Smitt's Wharf. The corpse was…

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A Fatal Bolt. Runaway at Randwick. a Man Killed and His Wife Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 6

A runaway, attended with a fatal result, occurred at Randwick on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Stephen Eddy, a resident of George-street, Marrickville, was out driving with his wife in…

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Vehicle Accidents

Evening News · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 3

A married woman named Mary Ann M'Donald was knocked down by a sulky, which was being driven up Brickfield Hill last night, and received a scalp wound and an injury to the right leg…

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Shocking Railway Accidents. a Guard Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 5

Two shocking railway accidents occurred on Saturday. James M'Carthy, the guard of a train returning from Ballarat with holiday makers who had been attending the Victorian Railway…

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Racing Accident. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 7

In the Cup race Cromwell, X Ray, and Tramp fell. Clayton and Wilson, the riders of the last two horses, were uninjured, but A. Cush who was on Cromwell, was badly cut…

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Accident to a Somnambulist

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 7

A man named Michael Clarke, residing in Hutchinson-street, Surry-hills, was found lying in a semi-conscious condition at an early hour yesterday morning, on the footpath opposite his residence. He was bleeding…

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A Ship Passenger's Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon a man named J. Ostman, about 40 years of age, arrived by the steamer Narrung, from Sydney, and got a cabman to drive him to a house in Little Lonsdale-street,…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. a Kittle Girl the Victim

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 6

DUBBO, Saturday.--There was a fatal shooting accident in a suburb called Newtown last evening. A little girl named Mary Ann Jones, a resident of Bourke, here on a visit, was playing…

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Terrible Fire in New York. the Hotel Windsor Destroyed. the Inmates Panic-stricken. Many Jump From Windows and Parapets. the Brigades Hampered. Fourteen Lives Lost. Fifty Persons Injured and Sixty Reported Missing. London, March 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 5

During the St. Patrick's Day procession in New York yesterday afternoon the Hotel Windsor, one of the leading hotels of the city, was destreyed by fire…

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Terrible Drowning Fatality. Three Young Men the Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.--Three young men, named Darroch, Turner, and Holm, the latter the son of the captain of the barque G. M. Tucker, were drowned to-day while crossing…

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Fatality at Balmain

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 2

A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday at the Exchange Hotel, Beattie-street, Balmain, touching the death of a 7-year-old lad, named Louis Maurice Solomon. who, on the 9th…

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Injured by a Tram

Evening News · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 8

Mr. Justice O'Connor and a jury had before them yesterday an action in which Mary Gillman, through her next friend, John Henry Gillman, sued the Railway Commissioners to recover £50O…

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Tram Fatality at Marrickville. Deceased Identified

Evening News · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 8

A shocking tram accident occurred at the Marrickville tram terminus at about half-past 9 o'clock last evening, when a man whose name has been ascertained to ba William Gordon received…

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The Marrickville Fatality. The Victim Identified

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 5

The body of the victim of last night's shocking tram fatality at Marrickville was this morning identified as that of William Gordon. The deceased was a single man, and resided…

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Fatal Accident at Randwick

Evening News · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 3

A runaway, which was attendod with serious result, occurred on Saturday afternoon at Randwick, when a man named Stephen Eddy received injuries from which he succumbed on Sunday…

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