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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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A Chapter of Accidents

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 3

MOREE, Tuesday.-The Her. Mr. Hynes Wesleyan minister, was returning on Sunday evening at 10 o'clock after holding a service at Bingerang when the wheel of his sulky struck a stump. The…

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Fatal Street Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred in George-street, Brickfield Hill, about 7 o'clock last night. A man named Ernest Herman [?] was sitting in a sulky outside a shop, when an…

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Accident to a Flagman

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 5

S. H. Emery, of Queen-street, Woollahra, employed as train-flagman at the intersection of Park and Elizabeth streets, was knocked down by a cart whilst in the execution of his duty…

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Miners' Accident Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 5

BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--A sick and accident fund was established by the directors of the South mine after the great disaster six years ago, employees having to subscribe…

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Accident at Mort's Dock

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 5

The accident at Mort's Dock on Monday, on which a married man named James Clark was the victim, resulted fatally at the Balmain Cottage Hospital at 10.30 last evening. The deceased,…

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Accident at Greenwich

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 10

Whilst George Davidson, a resident of Good-hope-street, Paddington, was working on Monday on the buildings being erected at Greenwich for the Kerosene Oil Storage Company,…

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Fatal Accident in George-street

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 5

Shortly before 7 o'clock last night a young married man named Ernest Herman Thicle met his death in a shocking manner in George-street. He was sitting in a sulky outside a shop on…

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That Collision

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 6

With reference to the collision which occurred in George-street on Tuesday evening, between an omnibus and a sulky, and which was reported yesterday, Robert Moyes, 26, a bus driver,…

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A Colliery Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 8

A young man named Thomas Clark, 24 years of age, lately residing at Tighei's Hill, was killed this afternoon at the H[?]tton Col[?]ery, where he was employed in the capacity of a wheeler. It appears that…

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The Street Fatality

The Australian Star · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 7

Yesterday the City Coroner, at Chancery- square, initiated an inquest into the death of Ernest Herman Th[?]ele, stationer, of Church- street, Ryde, which occurred on…

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A Recent Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 8

The steamer Coolga[?]die, which arrived here on Monday shows no particular injury in consequence of her reported collision at Albany with the ship Erin's Isle. Captain Nightingall, the master of the Coolgardie, states that the…

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The George-street Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 3

An inquest was initiated by the City Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore at the Coroner's Court, yesterday, on the body of Ernest Horman Thiele, a tobacconist, of Ryde, who was killed in…

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Mort's Dock Fatality. To-day's Inquest

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 4

The city coroner concluded an inquest this morning, which was initiated at Balmain on Wednesday, into the circumstances surrounding the death of James Clark, a shipwright, which…

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Accidents and Fatalities

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

An inquest in connection with, the death of Ernest Herman Thiele, who was fatally injured by a collision between a bus and a sulky in George-street on Tuesday night, was commenced…

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Accident on a Ship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 8

A seaman named Ernest Olene, belonging to the four-masted ship Falls of Afton, was discovered this afternoon lying in an unconscious condition at the bottom of the lower hold of his vessel. He had been…

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Parramatta District. Scalding Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

On Wednesday afternoon a child named Spencer Lewis, aged 3½ years, living with his patents in O'Counell-street North, was admitted into the Parramatta District Hospital suffering from severe scalds…

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The Late 'Bus Accident

The Australian Star · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

At the Central Police Court this morning, before Mr. Mair, S.M., Robert Moyes, aged 26, the driver of the omnibus concerned in the fatal accident in George- street, when a…

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Railway Accident

The Australian Star · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

A serious accident happened to a railway employee named Samuel Green, 43, of Erskineville- road, Erskineville, last night, at Darling Harbour. He was engaged in…

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Harbour Accident

The Australian Star · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

Yesterday afternoon a boat containing two men was run down by a lighter off Dawes Point. Both of the occupants were thrown into the water, but were speedily rescued…

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Serious Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

A serious accident occurred at the Darling Harbor railway station about 7.30 last evening, and it is feared that the victim, an employee named Edmund Green, will lose, his right leg…

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