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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Fatality at the Ultimo Power House. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 9

The adjourned inquest into the circumstances attending the death of David Barnett (41), which occurred at Prince Alfred Hospital on Friday night as the result of injuries received through…

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Vehicular Collision. the Driver Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 10

At the Water Police Court yesterday before Mr. C. N. Payten. S.M., Samuel Galbraith Alexander (22), licensed bus-driver, was charged with negligently driving two horses…

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Rescued From Drowning. a Mosman Bay Incident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

A six-year-old girl named Elsie Davis, residing with her parents in Spofforth-street, Mosman, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday afternoon, an end which was only prevented by…

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Drowned While Bathing. Goulburn

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 6

A young man named Alexander Gillespie was drowned yesterday whilst bathing with three others in the Wollindilly River. Gillespie could not swim very well, and was…

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The Country. Drowned While Bathing

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

GOULBURN, Tuesday.--A young man named Alexander Gillespie, about 20 years of age, residing at East Goulburn, while bathing with a party yesterday in the Wollondilly, near Marsden's…

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A Wharf Labourer Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

Yesterday afternoon a wharf labourer named Joseph Nicholson who resides at Pyrmont, wus working in the the hold of the steamer Omba at Darling Island Wharf, when a couple of bags of…

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Accidents in the Country

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 6

GOULBURN, Tuesday.—A drowning accident occurred on Monday afternoon. A young man named Alexander Gillespie, in the employ of Messrs. Lake and Stewart, coachbuilders, of…

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Parramatta District. Shooting Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

On Monday a lad named Charles Cox, while out bird-shooting at Dundas, was accidentally shot in the shoulder. It appears that he was watching another lad load a pen rifle when it accidentally went…

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A Strange Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

On Saturday last Mr. G. S. Ribley, an officer in the Railway Audit Department, met with a strange accident. He was journeying to Sydney by rail, and as the train was running between Auburn and…

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Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

Elsie Davis, six years of age, living with her parents in Spofforth-street, Mosman, was playing with her two little brothers near the Mosman Bay wharf yesterday afternoon…

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Railway Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 6

Mr. G. S. Ridley, inspector in the Audit Department, came out of hospital yesterday, after undergoing treatment since Saturday, for injuries he sustained whilst travelling on the…

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Shooting Accident. Parramatta

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 4

A lad named Chas. Cox, who was residing for a few days at Mrs. O'Brien's, Phillip-street, Parramatta, was out shooting with a companion at Dundas on Monday, when he…

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Accident in George-street

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

Constable J. H. Webber yesterday afternoon conveyed a man named Edward Reader to the Sydney Hospital. He was found lying on the pavement in the vicinity of the…

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Accident at Darling Island

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 7

A wharf labourer named Joseph Nicholson yesterday was working down the hold of the steamer Omba, which was loading wheat at Darling Island wharf, when two…

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Parramatta and District. Accident with a Pea Rifle

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 4

Charles Cox, aged 12, who is at present on a visit to Mrs. O'Brien, of Phillip-street, Parramatta, went out shooting birds with some young friends on Monday in the Dundas district. The…

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Accident to a Wharf Laborer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 8

Joseph Nicholson, wharf laborer, was conveyed to the Sydney Hospital by the Civil Ambulance Brigade, in a serious condition, yesterday. He was assisting in the loading of the Omba…

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Rescued From Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1902 · page 7

Elsie Davis, six, residing with her parents at Spofforth-street Mosman, was playing at the Mosman Wharf on Tuesday afternoon when she fell into the harbour. Her two little brothers, with whom…

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Recent Drowning Cases. Both Bodies Still Missing

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1902 · page 4

Neither the body of Miss Mabel Thorp, who was recently drowned while surf-bathing on the ocean beach at Manly, or that of Mr. A. Conlon, who was drowned at Sans Souci last Sunday…

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Bathing at Manly. Narrow Escape From Drowning

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1902 · page 4

This morning a very strong current from north to south was running along the Manly Ocean Beach at low tide, and a Sydney solicitor was enjoying a float when he suddenly found that he…

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Casualties. Severely Injured by a Horse

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1902 · page 7

A boy named Alfred Cummins (S), living at 145 Wyndham-street, Alexandria, was admitted to the Prince Alfred Hospital last night suffering from a fracture of the skull. He was playing in…

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