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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

3,323 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 167

Ship and Tug. Collision at Mort's Dock. Crew Refuse to Proceed

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 4

About 7 last, night, as the British ship Cortez lay at Mort's Dock, all ready to he towed away to Newcastle to load coal, the tug which was to take her, collided with the…

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Tasmania. Outbreak of Bush Fires. Mining Properties Injured. Queenstown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 5

The weather to-day has been intensely hot. This afternoon bush fires started at the top of Queen River Valley, and travelled quickly to the Tasman and Crown Extended and Lyell…

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Accident to Mr. P. H. Wood

Evening News · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 3

BEGA, Thursday.—Mr. P. H. Wood, of Yarranung Estate, met with a serious accident yesterday. He left borne early in the morning to proceed to his properties at Brogo. On the…

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Trousers Cause Serious Accident

Evening News · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 5

Leonard Wearing, 26, a shunter, who lives at 192 Abercrombie-street, city, and is employed at the Eveleigh railway sheds, had his right thigh badly crushed this morning…

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Fatal Burning Accident. Corowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 6

Mrs. Florrie Fromholtz, about 20 years of age, in the employ of Mrs. Gibbons, at Walbundrie, was yesterday standing over a stove when her clothes caught fire. She madly…

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Railway Accident. Goods Train Derailed. Damage to Rolling Stock. Mittagong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 4

A goods train, when going down the hill towards Balmoral at 9 o'clock this morning, ran off the line. The brakes failed to act, and as the train was travelling at a great…

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Shocking Shunting Accident a Peculiar Mishap

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 1

Leonard Wearing lies in the Prince Alfred Hospital in a very serious condition, as the result of having on a pair of trousers that were too long for him. Wearing is a shunter…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 6

BALLINA, Thursday.--To-day a number of young ladies who were picnicking near the pilot station, East Ballina, were bathing, when one got out of her depth. Her mother went…

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Casualties. Railway Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 7

Leonard Wearing, a shunter, formerly residing in Abercrombic-street, was the vict[?]m of an accident at Eveleigh yesterday morning which resulted in his death. He was at work on the…

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Casualties. Wharf Laborer Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 7

While engaged in loading cargo on the steamer Willyama yesterday morning, a wharf laborer named Evan Jones was struck by a sling of bullion and crushed against a stanchion…

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Shipping Casualties. Collision at Mort's Dock

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 6

While proceeding alongside the ship Cortez at Mort's Dock on Wednesday night the tug which was to take her to Newcastle collided with the vessel. The impact cracked one of the plates…

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About Ships. Heavy Weather at New Zealand. Excursionists Injured

The Australian Star · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 1

The New Zealand boat Manuka, in [?] morning, brings news of the troubles of big vessels in the big gales which recently swept the New Zealand coast. A P[?]ton exchange…

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Forcing Flowers by Fire. Remarkable Result of an Accident

Evening News · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 4

That flowers can be forced by heat such as is usually supplied to glass-houses is, of course, an old story (writes Mr. J. E. Whitby, in "Chambers' Journal"): but that the direct…

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Accident on the Fingall Line. Engine Falls Through a Burning Bridge. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 7

On Wednesday afternoon an accident happened on the Fingall line, between Ormley and Tullochgorum. Bush fires had set ablaze a wooden bridgo some 50 [?] long, and the train…

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Accident on a Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 7

Evan Jones, a wharf labouror, residing in Belmore-road, Penshurst, was admitted into Sydney Hospital yesterday morning with internal injurles and a severely lacerated thigh…

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Serious Accident to Mr. P. H. Wood. Bega

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 7

A serions accident happened yesterday to Mr. P. H. Wood, owner of the well-known Yarranung estate. It appears that he was on his way in a buggy to Inspect…

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Serious Driving Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 6

BEGA, Thursday.--Mr. P. H. Wood, of Yarranung Estate, met with a serious accident yesterday. While driving to Brogo his horse shied and took the buggy over a cutting, smashing it…

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Drowning Fatality. A Mother's Mistake

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 4

The body of the boy Mulqueeny, who was drowned on the ocean beach at Manly this week, has not yet been recovered, and those well versed in the currents in…

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Drowning Case at Manly

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 5

Thomas Mulqueeny (13), who resided with his "parents in Camden-street, Newtown, was drowned oft the Ocean Beach, Manly, on…

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Casualties. Railway Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 11

The City Corener with a jury held an inquest at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospltal yesterday on the body of Leonard James Waring, who died in the institution on Thursday…

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