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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

3,833 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 192

A Shooting Accident. Corowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 6

A painful shooting accident is reported from Mulwala. It appears that Mr. Samuel Lee, [?] farmer at Terramia, near Mulwala, was aroused from sleep early on Saturday morning by the bleating of…

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Accidents During the Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 8

The following accidents occurred during the day:— Colonel Chippendale waa thrown from his horse and rendered unconscious. Charles Hall fell from a scaffold and brake one of his legs. Mary Howell was…

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Fatal Tram Accident. Conner's Inquest

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 7

An inquest was held at the South Morgue yesterday by the Deputy-Coroner (Dr. R. H. Todd) in connection with the death of Peter John Rice, of Ruthven-street, Randwick, who…

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Sydenham Railway Disaster. Conclusion of the Inquest. Driver Doyle's Testimony. Verdict of Accidental Death. the Engine Condemned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 10

The inquest on the body of Herbert Henry Darnley (23), of Rockey Point-road, Rockdale, one of the victims of the Sydenham railway disaster on February 5, was continued yesterday morning…

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Fatal Scalding Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 5

GLOUCESTER, Monday.--A 2-year old daughter of Mr. Joseph Aitkens, residing at Copeland, on Saturday evening accidentally knocked over a hilly of boiling water, scalding her leg…

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Railway Accident at Katoomba

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 5

KATOOMBA, Monday.--As a Baldwin engine, which was what the authorities term running, light, viz., haying no trucks or van attacked, was proceeding toward Blackheath,…

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The Country. Shooting Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 5

COROWA, Monday.--A painful shooting accident is reported from Mulwala. It appears that Mr. Samuel Leo, Sen., farmer, at Taramai, near Mulwala, wan aroused from sleep early on the…

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The Late Miss Rudd. Result of the Inquest. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.--In connection with the death of the Queensland lady Miss Rudd, who recently lost her life in a fire at Blomsbury, the coroner's jury has returned a verdict of accidental…

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The Haymarket Fatality. Deceased Identified

Evening News · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 6

The man who was killed by a tram" at the Haymarket on Saturday night was yesterday identified as a farrier named George Long, a widower, and a native of Ireland…

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Fatal Collision with a Tram

Evening News · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 3

A resident of Balmain, named Richard Boon, about 50 years of age, died in Sydney Hospital at 3.30 a.m. to-day. Boon was driving a butcher's waggon along Harris-street on Tuesday…

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Fatality at Miller's Point. Crushed to Death

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 7

Thomas Camghan, aged 30'years, a resident of Jones-lane, Ultimo, was crushed against a lamp-post near Trinity Church, Miller's Point, yesterday, receiving injuries,…

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Shooting Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 6

COROWA, Tuesday.—From Mulwala comes the report that a serious shooting accident has occurred there. It appears that on Saturday morning a Mr. Mawson rode into the township of…

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Shooting Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The bright, clear moonlight nights experienced during the latter part of last week and the commencement of this, have tempted the youth of the outlying parts of county Cumberland out opossum…

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Crushed to Death. a Fatal Street Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 6

A dealer named Thomas Callaghan, 33, was killed yesterday I through being crushed between a cart and a lamppost. Callaghan and another man were working for Mr. W. Jones, of…

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Another Railway Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 6

KATOOMBA, Tuesday.—A Baldwin engine was being dispatched from Katoomba to Lithgow on Monday at 4.30 a.m., when, by some means, it was put on to the "dead line," instead of the main…

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The Sydenham Railway Accident. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 5

Sir,—As I notice from your columns of to-day that the Railway Commissionors propose to appoint a board to make inquiry into this accident, 1 ask your pormission to place before the public the procedure…

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Accident in Harris-street

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 7

Late yesterday afternoon the Civil Ambulance and Transport Brigade conveyed to the Sydney Hospital a man named Reuben Boon, Who wns driving a carcase butchers' waggon…

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Fatal Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 5

Richard Boon, who was admitted to Sydney Hospital yesterday suffering from a fractured skull, and spinal Injuries, the result of an accident in Harris-street yesterday,…

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The Sydenham Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 6

It is stated in reference to the Sydenham accident that one part of the Chief Mechanical Engineer's evidence has been misunderstood. He stated that 86 derailments had occurred (the…

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