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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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Meeting at Kyneton. Bad Arrangements. Sundry Severe Accidents. Melbourne

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 4

KYNETON Races on Monday were largely attended. But the arrangements were not well managed, and there were several had accidents. The clever lightwaight, Mr…

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Electric Tram Accident. Verdict For £225

The Australian Star · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 6

After a retirement of about an hour the jury in the action of William Henry Gritton against the Railway Commissioners, in which the plaintiff claimed £1000 for injuries alleged…

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The Country. Broken-hill Mining Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 8

BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--About 2 o'clock this morning a fatal accident happened to George Lower, shaftman, employed in winking the Delprat shaft at the Proprietary mine. He was…

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Accident on a Liner. an Ammonia Tank Explodes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday.--An ammonia tank, connected with the refrigerators, on the after- steer age deck of the liner New York (10,674 tons, of the fleet),…

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Tram Accident Case. £225 Damages

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 10

The hearing of the suit was concluded in which William Henry Gritton, bank clerk, sued the Railway Commissioners to recover £1000 for alleged negligence in the driving of an…

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Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 2

Mrs. Kilbut, of Church-street, Parramatta, had the misfortune on Thursday to got two of the fingers of her left hand very badly crushed.-Alfred Ivin, of Weslmend, aged 10 years who…

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Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 8

The city coroner conducted a magisterial inquiry at the Clarendon Hotel to-day into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Chinaman whose body was discovered yesterday afternoon floating in the harbour. The remains…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

Evening News · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 6

On Monday, while bathing at Coogee, a boy about 14 years of age went out a little too far, and nearly lost his life in doing so, while a gen-tleman who went to his rescue also had a narrow…

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Victoria. Railway Fatality. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 7

James Lotton, butcher, of Briagoloug, was killed instantly by a special goods train near Munro Station this morning at the crossing. He took the train for an ordinary one stopping at station, and was caught…

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The Collision Off the Heads

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 4

A preliminary survey has been made of the barquentine Silver Cloud, which was recently in collision with the steamer Dovedale off Sydney Heads, and another examination will be made…

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Fatality at the Glebe. a Man Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 7

A fatal accident happened in Bridge-road, Glebe, early yesterday morning. Whilst Charles Watson was driving a lorry along that thordughinre the front near wheel came…

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Compensation for the Sydenham Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 4

When seen yesterday with reference to the Sydenham accident and the question of compensation, the Railway Commissioners stated that, without awaiting the verdict which would be…

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Accident on a Punt

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 7

Thomas Smith was working on a punt in Johnstone's Ray yesterday, when a heavy piece of timber fell from a height of about 12ft., and struck him on the head. He received a severe scalp wound, and was conveyed to the…

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Casualties. a Fatal Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1901 · page 7

Margaret Williams (78), the woman who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Friday last suffering from a fracture of the left thigh, caused by a fall at her home, died about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The deceased…

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Chemnitz in Collision. 13 Persons Drowned

Evening News · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 5

LONDON, March 21.—The German-Australin steamer Chemnitz, which left Sydney an January 14 for Europe, came into collison with the steamer, Tay, off Flushing. The Tay sank, thirteen…

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Collision at Sea. a Steamer Sunk. Thirteen Persons Drowned. LONDON, March 21

The Australian Star · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 4

A collision has occurred between the German- Australian steamer Chemnitz, of 2709 tons, which left Sydney for the Continent on January 14, and the steamer Tay, off…

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Mort's Dock Fatality

The Australian Star · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 6

The adjourned inquest touching the death of Wm. Gray, who was killed at Mort's Dock on Saturday last through the tail- shaft of a steamer breaking and falling upon the…

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Drowned in the Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 7

An old man named Edward Bannon, of Peel-street. Windsor, went out in a yacht from St. Kilda this afternoon, accompanied by Charles Applefield, also of Windsor. When six miles…

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Newcastle. Fatality on a Ship

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 6

Between 7 and 8 o'clock yesterday morning a Norwegian seaman named Jacob Jacobson, while at work or the ship Australian, fell from the tween decks to the lower hold, a distance of…

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Fatality at Mort's Dock. the Inquest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 7

The inquest relative to the death of William Gray, who died in the Balmain Cottage Hospital on Sunday last from the affects of injuries received at Mort's Dook and Engineering Works on Saturday last, wa[?]…

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