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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Plucky Rescue From Drowning. Narrow Escape of Three Children

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 8

A plucky rescue from drowning was effected at Sandringham yesterday morning by a groom named Barney Barnabas and a young lady named Grace Partridge, both of whom are employed at…

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A Terrible Header. The Sad Fatality at Bondi

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

The City Coroner this morning investigated the circumstances under which a young man named Leslie Thomas Gibson Cunynghame was fatally injured while diving at the Bondl…

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Amateur Sport. Cricket. a Fieldsman Injured

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

During a match at North Sydney on Saturday two men endeavouring to field a ball came into violent collision, and one of them, R. Stephenson, sustained a fracture of the…

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Torpedo Boat Destroyers in Collision. London, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

The torpedo-boat destroyers Teazer, 320 tons, and Starfish, 270 tons, came into collision in Portsmouth do[?]kyard. The bows of the Teazer were badly damaged. The…

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Accidents to Torpedo Destroyers. a Boat Cut Down. Two Men Drowned and Thirteen Missing. Disaster in the Mediterranean

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--While 12 torped-oman destroyers, with lights, extinguished, were pursuing the third-class cruiser Pioneer at the Mediterranean squadron manoeuvres in…

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Capsize of a Lifeboat. Six of This Crew Drowned. London, Feb. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

The lifeboat stationed at Mumbles, Glamorganshire, capsized off Port Talbot, in a heavy sea. Six of the crew were drowned…

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Disaster in the Mediterranean. at British Naval Man[?]uvres. a Torpedo-boat Destroyer Cut Down. the Drowned and Missing. London, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

A terrible disaster is reported to have occurred at the torpedo-boat destroyers' man[?]uvres of the Mediterranean squadron. While 12 torpedo-boat destroyers with their lights…

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Accident to the Sydney Express

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

The express from Sydney arrived an hour and three-quarters late to-day, through the engine breaking down at Longwood…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Found Unconscious

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 4

Early yesterday morning a man named William Grethowan, 55, a plasterer, living at 59 Bay-street, Gl[?]be, was found by a neighbour lying in the yard of his house in an unconscious condition…

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Railway Accident. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 7

William Doig, 39, an engine-driver, was run over in the Geelong yards this morning, and badly injured. He has a wife and four children…

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DECAPITATED. Shocking Railway Accident

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

The dead body of a man of about 60 years of age was found on the Milson's Point to Hornsby railway line, at Waltara, early this morning, and was conveyed by the North…

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An Unavoidable Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 6

The report of the Railway Board, which investigated the derailment of 21 trucks between Wandong and Kilmore East, on 15th January, states that the train parted, owing to a clean…

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Accident to an Engine-driver

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 6

At Geelong this morning William Doig. aged 39 years, a railway engineerings, was walking down the 6ft. way towards the office, to ascertain what train he was booked, for, when a Melbourne…

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Inquest. the Bathing Fatality at Bondi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 4

The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held an inquiry yesterday relative to the death of the young man named Lealie Thomas Gibson C[?]ynghame, 23, who died in Sydney Hospital on Monday night…

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Fatality on the Milson's Point Line

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 6

About a quarter past 6 o'clock yesterday morning the dead body of an unknown man was found lying on the permanent way of the Milson's Point railway line on the Sydney side of the Waitara station…

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Casualties. Serious Cab Accident. the Driver Killed and Two Passengers Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 8

Late yesterday afternoon, a serious cab accident, attended with fatal results, occurred at the corner of Dowling and Oxford streets. The cab, driven by Michael O'Reflly, and…

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Swimming Fatality. Death of a Parramatta Boy

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon, a young man named Loslie Cunynghame, 23, son of Mr. George Cunynghame the dispenser at Darlinghurst Gaol, was seriously injured…

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Disaster at Sea. Twenty-four Sailors Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 5

LONDON. February 3.— The Norwegian steamer Ayona has been lost off the coast of Denmark. Her crew of 24 hands were drowned. [The steamer Avona. a vessel of 2889 tons gross,…

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Diving Fatality at Bondi. a Young Man Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 8

The death of the young man, Leslie Thomas Gibson Cunynghame, who was fatally injured at the Bondi Baths on Sunday last, formed the subject of a magisterial inquiry at the Coroner's…

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The North Shore Railway Fatality Inquest on the Victim

Evening News · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 4

The City Coroner held an inquest, to-day, concerning the death, of the elderly man whose body was yesterday found decapitated on the North Shore railway line, near the Waitara Station. The…

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