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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

3,323 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 167

Fatalities and Accidents. Death While Playing Billiards

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 8

A native of Germany named Phillip Mandelson (63) dropped dead, shortly before 11 o'clock last night, while playing a game of billiards at the National Sporting Club,…

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In Case of Accident. How the Hospitals Are Fed. Ambulance and Transport Facilities. Two Public Institutions

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 7

A statement has been made to as to the effect that on a recent Sunday afternoon the Civil Ambulance and Transport Corps declined to remove a patient from North Sydney to Lewisham…

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Accident at Prospect

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 2

A little lad named George Stanley Smith, aged 7½ years, son of the late Mr. George Smith, of Prospect, was admitted into the Parramatta District Hospital on…

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The Harbour Collision Lady Hampden's Master in Fault

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 6

The Marine Court found that the collision between the Lady Hampden and the Daphne was owing to the default of the master of the Lady Hampden in not…

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Sailing Boat Sunk. an Occupant Drowned. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 8

This afternoon the steamer Burrumbeet, bound for Melbourne collided with a sailing boat in which were three young men—Walter and Alfred Morris and Andrew Burns—…

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Disastrous Wreck. Another Wheat Ship Lost. 23 Hands Drowned. London, Wednesday 2.40 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 1

The ship Khyber, bound from Melbourne to Queenstown with a wheat cargo, is a total wreck on the Cornwall coast. Only three of her crew were saved…

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Marine Court. (Before Judge Gibson, and Captains D. G. Stewart and John M'Keuzie, assessors.) the Lady Hampden-daphne Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 8

An inquiry was hold into the cause of the collision between the Lady Hampden and the Daphne, off Dawes Point, on the evening of February 17. The Lady Hampden left Bald Rock…

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Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Gibson and Captains D. G. Stewart and John M'Kenzle, Assessors.) Daphne-lady Hampden Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 3

Mr. H. Wood, instructed by Mr. Kidston, of the Crown Solicitor's Department, appeared for Captain Ed[?]e, Superintendent of Navigation; Mr. M'Donell (M'Donoll and Moffitt) for the…

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Tram Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 8

Jacob Billick, aged 62. residing at [?] Kensington-street, while crossing the tram line in Broadway, Globo, yesterday, was knocked down by a tramear and sustained a fractured arm…

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Cart Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 8

Charles Townsend, a dealer, while driving in Mitchell-road, Alexandria, yesterday, was thrown from his cart and sustained a fracture to one leg, and also several bruises. He…

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Shooting Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 8

Harry Wilson, 15 years of ago, of Muckatah, on Tuesday was sitting ian a stump waiting to shoot hares, whon the gun fell and exploded. The charge lodged in the boy's thigh…

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A Riding Accident. Claim by a Boy

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 7

[?] the No. 2 Jury Court, before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury, Ernest John Booth, a boy aged 9 (by his next friend Henry William Booth), sued the Municipality of…

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In Case of Accident. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 3

Sir,--In your issue of to-day, under the above heading, appears a report dealing with the work done, and revenues received by the Ambulance Associations. You also make a rough…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Death at a Religious Gathering

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 7

An elderly gentleman, Mr. Robert Mayor, died suddenly last night while addressing a gathering of Christian Scientists at their rooms, in York chambers, Market-street. Mr. Mayor had been…

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NO. 2 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury of four.) Accident at a Culvert. Booth V. the Borough of Kempsey

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 8

The case was continued in which Ernest John Booth sought to recover from the Borough of Kempsey £800 damages for injuries sustained, Through alleged negligence in the construction…

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Vehicular Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Thurday.--Mr. a. Alexander, of Parkside, was seriously injured in a collision between a horse he was riding and a four-whealed vehicle, in the city to-day. He was taken to a…

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School Boy Drowned

Evening News · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 5

The Marrickville police recovered in King's waterhole, near Malakoff-street, Marrickville, this morning, the body of a boy named Wm. Watson, who left his home, 49 Silver-street…

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Young Man Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- Last night steamer Burrumbeet, while steaming down the Port Adelaide River, en route to Melbourne, collided with a boat, in which were three young…

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Workman Injured. a Scaffolding Accident

The Australian Star · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 7

Mr. Justice Pring and jury had before them in the No. 2 Jury Court a case in which Alfred Percy Pepper sued John Christopher Harrison and another, trading as J. C…

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Casualties and Fatalities. Supposed Case of Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 6

A boy named William Watson, aged 11, was supposed to have been drowned in a waterhole at Marrickville yesterday. At about half-past 3 in the afternoon his cap was found in…

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