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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

3,323 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 167

Tram Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 8

Ernest Perkins, 20, fell from a tram in Parramata-road, Leichhardt, yesterday morning, and sustainod injuries to the head. He was admitted to the Royal Prince Alfred…

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District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse.) a Ladder Accident. Craig V. ELLIS

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 8

This was an action in which Rugby Craig, of Clarence-lane, Sydney (a minor), suing by her next friend, William Bartush, was the plaintiff, and George William Ellis, of Ellis's Coffee…

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Railway Fatality at Hamilton

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 10

At about 9 o'clock yesterday morning a porter named Lance M'Lean, employed at the Hamilton railway station, was killed by being run over by a light engine and tender. Deceased was…

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The Inverkip-loch Carron Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 10

An order has been made in the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, pronouncing that the owner of the Loch Curron is answerable in damages in respect of a collision…

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Shipping Mishaps. the Loch Carron-inverkip Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 11

According to advices received by the English mail delivered yesterday, an order has been made in the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, pronouncing that the…

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An Infant Drowned. Toddled into a Waterhole

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 4

A little girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, of Auburn-road, Bankstown, and grandchild of Alderman I. P. Miller, J.P., was drowned in a…

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Current Items. Tram Accident at Leichhardt

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 6

On Thursday morning a young man named Ernest Perkins accidentally slipped off a tram while proceeding along Parramatta-road…

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Fatal Accident on the Stage. Jockey and Horse Flung From Revolving Stage Into the Orchestra

The World's News · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 17

The groat audience at the Coliseum Musichall, St. Martin's-lane, London, was startled by a dramatic accident, on January 11, which resuited in the death of one of the performers…

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District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Machinery Accident. Mangan V Murray

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 8

Mr. Teece, instructed by Mr. J. W. Abigail, appeared for plaintiff; and Mr. Armstrong, instructed by Messrs. Levy and Fulton, for defendant. Plaintiff, William John Mangan, of…

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Dreadful Quarry Accident. One Man Killed. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 11

A serious accident occurred at Koromiko, Marlborough, this morning. Three brothers named Hart, engaged in working a quarry, put in a charge of dynamite, and thinking that…

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Donkey-engine Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 11

William Francis Fowler, an engine-driver, died yesterday from the effects of an accident on a lighter. He was employed as enginedriver by Messrs. Brown and Co., stevedores,…

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Casualties. Fatal Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 11

An engine-driver named William Francis Fowler, lately residing in Princes-place, Woolloomooloo, succumbed yesterday to injuries sustained on Thursday while employed at a…

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Accidental Shooting of a Native. by a Methodist Missionary

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 9

BRISBANE, Friday. -- The Prinz Waldemar arrived from the islands to-day, with the following report from the New Britain correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph": --…

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Serious Burning Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 14

Shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morning a young woman named Maud Maddocks, while lighting a spirit lump at an electric baths establishment in King-street, upset, it and her clothes…

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Railway Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A sad railway fatality occurred at Helensburgh late on Saturday evening, when Andrew Bernard Gar[?]ck, eighteen months old, son of the stationmaster at the Metropolitan coal…

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Casualties. Railway Fatality. an Infant Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 8

Andrew Bernard Garlick aged l8 months, died in the Children's Hospital, Glebe, at 4.45 a.m. yesterday as a result of injuries sustained by being run over by a train at the…

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A Revolver Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 8

Carrington Sansley, 14, residing at Florastreet, Erskineville, was playing with a revolver yesterday afternoon when the weapon went off, the bullet entering one of his groins…

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An Extraordinary Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 5

An extraordinary accident occurred at the Great Southern mine, Bendigo. At [?]a late hour on Friday night the main pipe conveying steam from the boiler to the engine, which works the…

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Tragedy at Tilba Tilba. Son Accidentally Shoots His Father

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 5

TILBA TILBA, Sunday.--A dreadful tragedy occurred here on Friday night, an old resident named Alexander M'Donald being shot dead by his son…

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