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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

3,218 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 161

Accident on the Football Field

The Australian Star · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 7

A nasty accident happened in the football match Balmain v. Glebe on Birchgrove Oval on Saturday. One of the [?] men. C. Hutchinson, playing forward. was…

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A Tram Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 3

A resident of Waterloo named George Little, aged 41, was on Saturday night found lying on the tram line in Castlereagh-street Redf[?]rn, in an unconscious condition, with his…

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A Fatal Street Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 6

The death of Alfred Connelly, aged 50, a late resident of 22 Glebe-street, Glebe, who died in the Sydney Hospital on gravy from the effects of injuries received by falling from…

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A Fatal Mining Accident. Two Men Buried Alive. QUEENSTOWN (Tas.)

The Australian Star · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 3

An enormous fall of earth occurred at the Lyell Tharsis mine yesterday morning, the result being that two men, Con Cronin and Thos. Murphy, were burled alive. A shift…

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Railway Accident at Lewisham

The Australian Star · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 8

Early on Saturday evening Joseph Mack, 28, of Jubilee-street, Lewisham, was found lying near the railway line at the station of that suburb, with his right foot so badly…

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The Fatal Lorry Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 7

An inquiry was also held, concerning the death of James Couday a carter, who met with injuries, resulting in death, by falling off a lorry in Jones-street, Ultimo yesterday. One of the wheels of the lorry passed over…

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A Terrible Mining Accident. Two Men Buried Alive

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 7

QUEENSTOWN (Tas.), Sunday.-- The Lyell Tharsis mine was the scene of a frightful accident this morning, two men-- Con Cronin and Thos. Murphy-- losing their lives during Saturday…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 3

GOSFORD, Saturday.--Angelo Lazzarinl, an Italian, living near Why Why tunnel, was found this afternoon by Mr. W. Davis, about a quarter of a mile, from his own house, dead, with his…

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Serious Train Accident at Lewisham

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 7

A laborer, named Joseph Mack, aged 28 years, residing in Jubilee-street, Lewisham, was found lying with his right foot badly crushed near the railway line at one end of the Lewisham railway…

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Serious Tram Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 7

George Little, 41 years of age, carpenter, residing in Botany-street, Waterloo, wits discovered on the tram-line in Castlereagh-street, Redfern, on Saturday night, in an unconscious condition, and…

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A Pea-rifle Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 7

A six-year-old boy named Clifford, residing in Botany-street, Waterloo, was yesterday playing with a pea-rifle when the weapon went of the charge penetrating the lad's chest and causing…

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Football Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 7

During the match between and Balmain and Glebe football clubs on Saturday, at Birchgrove Park, Charles Hutcheson, of the local team, sustained a fracture of both bones of the right leg…

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Mining Fatality. Hobart

The Australian Star · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

Re[?] work was continued all day at the Lyell Tharsis mine, and shortly after midnight Cronin's body was recovered. One leg was fractured, and the face and head were…

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A Goulburn-st. Fatality. Police Investigating

Evening News · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

Detective Keating, Senior-constable O'Dea, and Constable Williams, of No. 2 Station, are busy investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man named Michael Pratt, 38, who…

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The Sussex-street Fatality. The Coroner's Inquest

The Australian Star · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 5

The City Coroner this morning held an Inquiry into the death of Michael Pratt, aged 38, who died in the Sydney Hospital early on Sunday morning from the effect of Injuries…

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Terrible Mining Fatality. Fall of Hundreds of Tons of Earth. Two Men Buried. Queenstown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 6

An accident occurred at the Lyell Thareis mine, by which two miners named Michael Cronm and P. Murphy were killed. They were working with two other men in the stope from…

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Serious Lorry Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

FORBES, Monday.—A serious accident occurred to Mr. Richard Saunders, head carter in the employ of Messrs. Wright, Heaton, and Company, on Saturday afternoon. He was driving a pair of…

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The Lyell Tharsis Accident. Recovery of a Body. Queenstown (Tas.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 5

The reseue party continued their work to-day at the Lyell Tharsts mine, where two miners namen Con, Cronm and Themas Murphy were buried by a heavy fall of sluff in the stopes above the 50ft…

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The Lyell Tharsis Accident. Recovery of Cronin's Body

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 6

QUEENSTOWN (TAS.). Monday. -- The body of the unfortunate man Cronin, who was buried under a fail of earth in the Lyell Tharsis mine, was recovered at 11 o'clock last night. Efforts…

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Sussex-street Fatality. The Inquest

The Australian Star · Wednesday 30 May 1900 · page 6

The Coroner's inquest into the death of Michael Pratt, which occurred in the Sydney Hospital on Sunday, was continued yesterday afternoon…

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