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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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A Fatal Accident. Canowindra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1901 · page 3

John Green, 57, labourer, was killed yesterday when returning home from the elections. His horse bolted, and colliding with a tree, Green was thrown, and his head was injured…

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Fatal 'Bus Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1901 · page 9

The stumbling of one of the horses attached to a North Geelong omnibus resulted yesterday evening in the injury of the driver and the almost instant death of a lady passenger. The accident occurred at…

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Inquests. the "Gap" Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 3

The death of Margaret Ann Haining, whose dead body was found in the water at the foot of the Gap on Saturday evening, was inquired into by the Deputy City Coroner (Dr. Todd) at the…

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Another Story. Many Were Drowned Like Trapped Rats

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 7

Quartormaster Fred. Lindstrom has an interesting story to tell of his experience during and subsequent to tho wreck. "I was on the lookout," he said when after…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 6

A girl named Ma[?]d Flint, 10, died yesterday at her parents' residence at Killingworth, near West Wallsend, from the effects of bur[?] received on Saturday. It appea[?]s that whilst deceased was…

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A Tram Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 7

Constable George Brictor, of No. 3 station, was treated at the Sydney Hospital yesterday for injuries to the back which he received by falling when attempting to board a moving tram in…

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Fatality at Bondi. Drowned While Fishing

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 5

This morning at about 8 o'clock a man named Alfred Scott, caretaker of the golf links at Bondi, while fishing from the rocks near Ben Buckler, was washed off by a…

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Found Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 2

Last Thursday, a coroner's inquest was held at the Rookwood Asylum upon the body of an inmates named Timothy Bonn, who had been found in the water at the Pott's Hill Reservoir…

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The Late Burning Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last tho magisterial enquiry touching the death of Ellen Cooper, the woman who was taken to the Parramatta Hospital on the 24th March, suffering from the…

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Washed From the Rocks. Fatality at Ben Buckler

Evening News · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 4

At about 8 o'clock this morning a man named Scott, a caretaker in the employment of the Golf Club at Bondi, was washed from the rocks at Ben Buckler and drowned. Scott was fishing, in…

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Dovedale- Silver Cloud Collision. Inquiry by the Marine Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 3

The circumstances attending the collision off Sydney Heads between the steamer Dove- dale and the barquentine Silver Cloud, on the night of March 14, formed the subject of…

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Collision Off the Heads. Dovedale and Silver Cloud. Marine Court Inquiry

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 5

The inquiry into the circumstances of the collision which occurred off Sydney Heads on the night of March 14, between the steamers Dovedale and the New Zealand owned…

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Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Murray. Assessors, Captain Dakin and Captain Jack.) the Dovedale-silver Cloud Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 10

An inquiry was commenced into the circumstances attending the collision between the steamer Dovedale and the schooner Silver Cloud, outside Sydney Heads, on the night of March 14…

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Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Murray, President, and Captains Dakin and Jack, assessors.) a Collision Case. the Dovedale and the Silver Cloud

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 4

Mr. Cargill, of the Crown Law Offices, appeared for Captain Edie, the Superintendent for Navigation; Mr. Russell (Messrs. Sty and Russell) appeared for Mr. C. J. Waterhouse, the local agent for Mr. T…

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Accidents and Fatalities

Evening News · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 6

BARBER'S CREEK, Tuesday.—An accident that might easily have resulted seriously happened to Mr. E. W. Molesworth, M.L.A., on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Molesworth was driving a pair…

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Accident to Princess Beatrice. London, April 2

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 4

The Princess Beatrice, while walking in the garden at the Empress Eugenie's villa at Cape Martin, sprained her ankle…

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Accident to the Princess Beatrice

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday.-- Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenburg) has sprained her "ankle in the garden of the Empress Eugenie's villa at Capmartin…

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Fatal Riding Accident. Hay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 5

A magisterial inquiry was held this afternoon respecting the death of George Baker, aged 14. Deceased was riding a pony along the street when it threw him. He sustained a fracture of the base of…

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Drowning of Mr. J. Scott

The Australian Star · Thursday 4 April 1901 · page 5

The body of James Scott, the well-known golfer, who was washed off the rocks at Ben Buckler whilst fishing early yesterday morning, had not up to the time of going to press…

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The Ben Buckler Fatality

Evening News · Thursday 4 April 1901 · page 2

The body of James Scott, of the Golf Club, at Bondi, who was drowned at Ben Buckler on Wednesday, had not been recovered up to this morning, and it is doubtful whether it will be…

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