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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

3,218 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 161

Collision Near Capetown. the Mexican Sunk. No Lives Lost. London, April 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 7

A collision has occurred near Capotown between the transport Winkfield and the Union and Castle liner Mexican. The Winkfield rammed the Mexican while a…

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A Financial Collision. a White and a Black Ship. the Public Accounts. Questions for the Committee. Mr. Reid's Criticism. "Carefully Prepared Traps."

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 7

Mr. G. H. Reid has been stirred by the publication of the questions which the Premier has asked the Committee on Public Accounts to consider. Speaking to a reporter last night, he said:--…

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Accidents at Maitland

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 6

WEST MAITLAND, Friday.—While a man named Jno. Smith was coming into Maitland last evening with a load of maize he fell off the dray which passed over him breaking his arm and leg…

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Accident to a One-legged Man

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 6

George Hughes, 61, residing at 401 Kent-street, was taken to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday suffering from fractures of the right hip and thigh. The injured man is a well-known…

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Accident at a Circus. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 5

During the performance on Saturday at Eroni's circus Eroni was seriously injured. He was putting a troups of several trained horses through their act, when one refused to perform, and was given some…

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A Mining Dispute Settled. Accident in the Burwood Mine. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 6

One of the grievances of the Wallsend miners appears likely to be settled. The manager proposes to do away with what is known as the "Jenkln" system of working…

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A Fatal Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 6

Dr. Todd, the Deputy-City Coroner, held an inquest on Saturday into the death of Jeremiah Cronin (39), a carter, which occurred in the Sydney Hospital on Friday morning. The…

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A Texan Disaster. a Dam Bursts. 40 Persons Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon. -- A [?]odd has burst disastrously and inundated Central Texas, (U.S.A.), a train running uorthwards from the capital city of Austin was wrecked and many…

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The Winkfield-mexican Collision. Perfect Discipline Maintained. London, April 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 5

The transport Winkfield, which collided with the Union and Castle liner Mexican near Capetown, brought remounts to the forces in South Africa…

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General Cable News the Disaster in Texas. Forty Persons Drowned. LONDON, April 9, 6.55 a.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 4

Further particulars with reference to the Texan disaster show that the inundation caused a dam above Austin to burst. A vast quantity of water was thus released. It…

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A Street Accident

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 7

Yesterday a carter named James Johnson aged 23, was driving down Darraek-street. The horse became restless, and bolted with the result that Johnson was thrown…

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The Accident to the Karaweera

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 5

The steamer Elinga[?] which towed the disabled steamer Karaweora into Eden on Sunday, arrived from Melbourne yesterday, and some particulars of the accident and the…

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The Harrington-street Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1900 · page 10

The Deputy City Coroner (Dr. R. H. Todd) concluded the inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of a youth named William Mark Young (16), at the Coroner's Court, Chancery-square, yesterday…

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A Shocking Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1900 · page 8

A shocking accident occurred at D. Moorhead and Son's chaff-cutting establishment, Bendigo., to-day. An employee named Thomas Stapleton 65, was using a chaff-cutter driven by a gas…

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New Zealand Railway Accident. 2500 Sheep Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 April 1900 · page 7

WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--The condition of Guard Hicks, who was injured in the railway accident on the Rimutaka incline, is more serious than was at first supposed. The man was buried…

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Six Seamed Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, April 11, 3.43 p.m.-Six seamen of the torpedo boat destroyer Desperate have been drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Brighton…

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The Heathfield, From Newcastle, in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 8

The following particulars of a collision have been received by the underwriters by mail from San Francisco via London, under February's date:—The Aneyra, which sailed from Astoria for Cork on January 20, put into port…

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Six Seamen Drowned. London, April 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 7

Six seamen of the torpedo boat destroyer, Desperate, while sailing a boat at Brighton, capsized the craft, and all were drowned…

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A Fatal Capsize. Six "Jack Taps" Drowned. LONDON, April 11, 3.43 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 5

Six seamen from the man-o'-war vessel Desperate have been drowned at Brighton, as the result of the capsize of a boat…

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Large Fire in the City. The Fire Injured. The Fire Fighters Twice Repulsed

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 5

Just on 1 o'clock this morning a panting boy rushed into the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station with the information that smoke was issuing from a building in Bathurst-street…

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