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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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A Sailor Injured

The Australian Star · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 8

A sailor named Patrick Moran, aged 30, who belongs to the American mail steamer Ventura, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital by Dr. Corfe on Saturday suffering from a…

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Wharf Labourer Fatally Injured

Evening News · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 8

Joseph Carl, or Cahill, a labourer, who had resided in Short-street, Balmain, and who was an Saturday admitted to the Sydney Hospital for treatment of injuries received while at work on…

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Shocking Burning Fatality. Result of Reading in Bed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of a youth named James Watson Oakes, aged 14, who died in the Melbourne Hospital early this morning as the…

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New Zealand. Disaster to a Picnic Party. Three Women Drowned. Wellington, N.Z.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 7

Three young women named Elizabeth Connor, O[?]ive Coker, and Madeline Christy, members of a picnic party, have been drowned through the capsizing of a vehicle in the Petane…

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The Moana's Accident

Evening News · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 3

Full particulars have been received at Sydney from Vancouver, Canada, regarding the grounding of the R.M.S. Moana on November 25. There was a strong current setting towards the rocks…

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Parramatta District. Peculiar Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 8

On Saturday at about noon a peculiar accident [?]appenedt to a railway guard named Henry Lambert (48), a resident of Merrylands. He had just brought in the Melbourne express tram from Melbourne, and was…

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Fatal Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 8

Mrs. Le Marchant, aged 41 years, died at the Parramatta. District Hospital at noon on Saturday from the result of an accident she met with on Boxing, DayOn that day sh[?] went for a drive with her sister, Mrs…

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Fatal Accident with a Pea-rifle. Urana

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 8

Mr.Frederick Lewis, manager of the Ferndale Estate for Mr. G. R. Jackson, of Mahonga, was handling a pea-rifle this morning, and by some means it accidentally…

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Accident at Cambewarra. Kiama

The Australian Star · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 3

Whilst working at the Cambewarra Creamery the night engineer, Mr. M'Pherson, met with a severe accident, narrowly, escaping with his life…

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Fatal Driving Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 7

Mrs. Le Marchant, who was the victim of a serious accident about a week ago through being thrown out of a vehicle while driving, died in the Parramatta Hospital on Saturday…

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A Fatal Buggy Accident. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 7

Thomas Eggington, a timber merchant and contractor of Ballarat, was thrown out of a buggy this afternoon, and sustained a severe fracture of the skull, and died without…

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Accident in the Bush

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 6

GILGANDRA, Saturday.--Nine horses attached to a large waggon, engaged in drawing wheat, bolted last night when about seven miles from here, through the driver running into some…

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Driving Fatality. a Boxing Day Accident

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 4

Mr. T. E. MacNevin, S.M., Parramatta District Coroner, yesterday opened a magisterial inquiry at the Parramatta Courthouse touching the death of Mrs. Jessie Le Marshall…

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The Fatality Near Parramatta

Evening News · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 5

The Coroner, Mr. T. E. Macnevin, commenced a magisterial inquiry on Monday afternoon concerning the accident near Parramatta on Boxing Day, by which Mrs. Jessie Lemarchand, 41 (a…

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Simpson-road Fatality. [By Telegraph.] MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

The inquest on Yee Moon, who was found after a fight bleeding and dying in Simpson's road, has been adjourned to allow the police to arrest his assailants…

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Injured by a Pitchfork. Gilgandra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 9

Frank Menzies, a groom, while employed cartnig in bay, sustained serious injuries through falling off a losded dray. Menzies was riding on the load when some of it slipped' off, carrying him with it, two of…

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Injured in a Mine. Cobar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 9

J. Green, employed at the Cobar Gold Mine, was the viction of a puinfal accident on Saturday. Some tools were being seut down the shoot when he was struck in the abdomen with a pick. It is not…

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Barque Ethel Ashore. One of the Crew Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The barque which was reported ashore near Cape Spencer yesterday proves to be the Norwegian barque Ethel, 711 tons. Captain Bogwold, from Delagoa Bay…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 9

This morning the death was announced of Miss Annie Hope Ducker, aged 17, residing at South Bowenfels. She was injured through the accidental discharge of a rifle. The accident occurred on…

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Inquest. Accident on a Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 8

'At the City Coroner's Court yesterday afternoon, before the Acting City Coroner (Dr. R. H. Todd), an inquest was held on the body of John Joseph Carl, 59, a wharf labourer, who…

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