Accident to a Sailor
A Finnish sailor named Adolph Scherholm, 18, was working on a punt alongside the ship Corrywretchen, in Darling Harbour, yesterday when some of the tackle gave way. This…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidents, 1902
4,570 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 229
Accident at a Timber Yard
Neil McNeil, a laborer engaged at the Botany timber yards, was yesterday conveyed to St. Vincent's Hospital, suffering painful injuries to the foot. A piece of timber fell some distance,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Harbour Collision
Yesterday afternoon a slight collision occurred in Sydney Cove between the R.M.S. Sonoma and the ferry steamer Carabella. The impact was very slight, only a few feet of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Narrow Esoapes From Drowning
SOME excitement war caused at the Brighton Baths, Lady Robinsons Beach, on Sunday morning last, the cause being the narrow escape from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manly Drowning Case. the Inquest
The City Coroner held an inquiry on the body of Frederick Christian Smalpage at Kilminster's Clarendon Hotel. Manly, on Friday afternoon. Dr. G. R. P. Hall stated that death was due to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision in Sydney Cove
A slight collision occurred in Sydney Cove yesterday between the R.M.S. Sonoma and the Mosman Bay ferry steamer Carabella. The mail steamer had Just arrived from San Francisco,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lost Overboard. Parramatta River Fatality
A deck hand of the Halcyon, one of the Parramatta river steamers, named J. Oigier, was missed during a trip of that vessel up the river on Wednesday morning. When…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fire-fighter Injured
YOUNG, Friday Afternoon. -- Joseph Small, an old resident of Young, and one of the volunteers who went out to assist at the bush fire, has just been brought into town, to the hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Drowning at Manly. Latest Particulars. Searching for the Body
A boat, under Mr. Sly, was out on the water early this morning searching for the body of Miss Mabel Thorpe, but up to 10.30 the searchers had not been successful in recovering it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Manly Sensation The Tragic Drowning. Recovering a Body. Attempts at Rescue
Needless to say the sadly tragic drowning cases are the theme of general conversation at the seaside village. The beach is studded with knots of people anxiously scanning the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Drowned at Manly. In the Breakers. Two Persons Swept Off
Miss Mabel Thorps, 22 years of age, a resident of Manly, got out of her depth in the breakers on Friday morning, and Mr. Frederick Smalpage, 85 years of age, a visitor from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Manly Drowning Case. Interview with an Eye-witness. the Attempts at Rescue
Mr. Austin Edwards, a commercial traveller, residing at Manly, called at the office of the "Evening News" yesterday, and eave a graphic account of the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bathing Fatality at Manly. Two Lives Lost. Gallant Attempt at Rescue
It is the custom for people staying at Manly to bathe on the ocean beach every morning, and two lives were lost yesterday from this cause. The locality of the double fatality is between the lines…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Torpedo-destroyer and Mailboat. Two Men Drowned. Bravery of the Sailors
Early in December cables wore received indicating a further disaster to one of His Majesty's torpedo-destroyers. According to the latest English papers, the collision between the Salmon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible Disaster at Panjim. a Steam Launch Wrecked. Over 100 Pilgrims Drowned
A telegram from Panjim (India) on December 9 announced the loss of over 100 lives through the sinking of a steam launch on the River Mandovy. The launch, which plies between…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Street Accident
A little after 9 o'clock this morning, Mr. H. Williams, of Messrs. David Jones and Company, was crossing George—street, from the G.P.O., on his bicycle. On clearing a tram he found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gun Accident
TUMBERUMBA, Saturday.—A serious gun accident has occurred at Cherry Hill, about fourteen miles from town. A young man named Ernest Richardson was handling a loaded gun, when by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident
A man, named Henry. Nesbitt, 60 years of age, a bricklayer, residing in Prosper street, Rozelle, was Admitted into the Balmain Hospital on Friday, suffering from scalp .wounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How the Accident Happened. Statements by Eye-witnesses
There were many people who witnessed the struggle for life of the two unfortunate people who were drowned. Several of them were seen at Manly yesterday; and their accounts all tallied with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Accidents
Henry Niblett, of Prosper-street, Baimaln, was struck on the head with a brick whilst working at a new building in Balmain yesterday evening, and was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →