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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Collision in the Harbour

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 5

A small collision occurred in Darling Harbour this morning between one of the Balmain ferry steamers and a small sailing skiff. Only slight damage was done to the…

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Motor Car Fatality. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 8

Saml. F. Payne, aged 21, a draper, while riding a bicycle along Albert-st, East Melbourne, this morning, came into violent collision with a motor car in which were seated…

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Shoalhaven Turf Club. Mudgee Seriously Injured. Nowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 10

The summer meeting of the Shoalhaven Turf Club field on Tuesday was largely attended. The fields were good, and the races were well contested. Considerable interest was taken in the Sydney horses, one of which…

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The Inverkip-loch Carron Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 7

The disastrous collision off the English coast, which resulted in the sinking of the barque Inverkip, homeward bound from Melbourne and the loss of 25 lives, was recalled yesterday…

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Woman Found Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 4

At an inquest hold yesterday concerning the death of Teresa Biggs, whose body was found in Saltwater River on Monday evening, evidence was tendered that on December 6 the…

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Accidental Poisoning. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 4

Ethel Elizabeth Jack, aged 27 years, residing in Grey-street, Wickham, died in the hospital to-day from the effects of drinking some spirits of salt by accident. The coroner held…

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Newtown Fatality. Three Accused Charged

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 11

It will be recalled that a young man named Daniel Ryan was killed on December 10 outside the Milton Hotel, King-street, Newtown. At a subsequent inquest concerning his…

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A Last Swim. Drowned in the Baths

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 6

Just before this edition went to press the police at No. 3 Station were informed that a man had been drowned in one of the baths in Woolloomooloo…

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Sensation in Brisbane. Triple Burning Fatality. Septuagenarian and Two Children the Victims. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 10

A terrible burning fatality resulting in the loss of three lives occurred at Paddington a suburb of Brisbane, early this morning when the residence of Mr. Richard Newble on…

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Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 4

On Saturday evening, a lad, 18 years of ago, named C. Luekoy, whilst swinging in one of the boats that were stationed in Church-street South during the holidays…

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Drowned While Bathing

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 2

The police of the No. 3 Division have made full inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of an elderly gentleman in Cavill's Baths at the mouth of…

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Injured Infants

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 7

Two children were admitted for treatment at the Prince Alfred Hospital last night. One, Harry Matthews, a lad of 9 years, was swinging on the back of a milk cart, when…

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Street Fatality. Newcastle

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 6

Robert Stephen Davidson, 14 years of age, residing at Wickham, was riding a bicycle in Hunter-street, Newcastle, and came into collision with a sulky. The lad was killed…

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Drowned in a Pond

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 7

Walter Allen, a boy of 9 years of age, whose parents reside in Sydney, was spending a holiday at East Hills, Parramatta, and on Friday was missed by his friends. On…

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Russia's Unrest. Serious Riots at War Saw and Kharkoff. Chief of Police Fatally Wounded. Many Killed and Injured. London, Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 5

The Russian Chief of Police has been fatally wounded near Warsaw. Rioters at Kharkoff fired the prisons. Six Baku strikers and a Cossack…

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Yesterday's Accidents Knocked Down by a Tram

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 5

Daniel Lawler 60, a blacksmith, residing at Palmer-street, Woolloomeeloo, was knocked down by a tram at City-road last night, and received a scalp would and fractured ribs…

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Fatal Cycling Accident. Newcastle, Saturday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 2

Shortly after 6 o'clock this evening a boy named Robert Stephen Davidson, 14 years of age, while riding a bicycle in Hunter-street opposite the Carrington Bridge, came in collision with a…

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An Accident

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 8 January 1905 · page 1

A spinster once who was antique Daubed lots of rouge upon her chique, But by mistake She made a brake…

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East-hills' Drowning Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 7

Mr. W. H. M'Kenzie conducted an inquiry at East-hills, on Saturday, concerning the death of E. Walters Allen, nine years of age, whoso body was discovered on the previous day in a…

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The Bath Fatality

The Australian Star · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 4

The body of Thomas Kidd Johnston aged 69 years, who was drowned in Covill's Baths on Saturday, has been encased in a lead and cedar capket and sent to Melbourne for…

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