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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

3,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 187

A Peculiar Accident. Man's Miraculous Escape

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1906 · page 6

Shortly before 8 o'clock on Saturday morning the Civil Ambulance Brigade received a call to attend an accident at Pyrmont Bridge, and on arrival found a man on one of the girders…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Runaway at Parramatta. Accident to Archdeacon Gunther

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1906 · page 6

An 'accident, which might very easily have been attended with more serious results, happened to Archdeacon Gunther, Anglican Vicar-General and Commissary, at Parramatta, on…

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Marrickville Drowning Fatality. Funeral of the Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 4

The sad occurrence on Friday afternoon, when two young girls, named Edna Kingsbury and D[?] Gole, were drowned in a large bath at the residence of Mr. Marcus Clark, Marrickvilie,…

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Fatality at a Sawmill

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 8

PERTH, Monday.-- G.W. Hitchings, proprietor of a timber mill, four miles from Armadale, was working at the bench this morning when a piece of wood flying from the saw struck him…

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Railway Fatality. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 8

James Lockett, who had both legs amputated as the result of an accident met with at Newport railway yards, died in the Williamstown Hospital to-day…

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An Apprentice Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 8

David Findlay, 16 years of age, who is an apprentice at Saxton and Binns's mill, Pyrmont, had his left thigh broken there yesterday afternoon through a bundle of doors falling on him…

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A Miner Injured. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 8

A miner named Cotterell sustained serious injuries to his head and body through a fall of earth at the Golden Horseshoe Mine on Saturday morning. He now lies in the…

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Panic in a Chapel. 18 KILLED, 40 INJURED

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 4

LONDON, Monday, 2.55 p.m.—A cry of "Fire!" yesterday created a panic among a Baptist coloured congregation at Philadelphia. The staircase collapsed, 18 being…

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Fire! Congregation in a Panic Terrible Tragedy in a Church. Eighteen Killed and Many Injured. London. Monday, 2.40 p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 1

A dreadful calamity, the result of a pa[?] in a church, is reported as having occurred in Philadelphia yesterday. The church was one at which the coloured…

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Accident to an Express. Great Loss of British Mails

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 4

LONDON, Monday, 2.55 p.m.—An express train was derailed near Ghent, Belgium. The mail Tan. caught fire, and forty three bags of British mails, containing letters to the…

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Frightful Accident. Shunter Loses Both Legs

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 4

A dreadful accident happened an the Williamstown railway line on Sunday morning, by which a shunter named James Lockett, lost both his legs and portion of his left hand…

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Accident on a Railway. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 8

A casual employee of the Railway Department, named James Lackett, sustained fearful injuries at Newport. He was engaged uncoupling wheat trucks, when an engine…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 8

Norman de Meur, the boy who fell from a tram on Saturday night and fractured his skull, died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital last evening…

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A Municipal Sick and Accident Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 10

A spirits of [?] and murder help is at all times a commonable [?] it is ma[?] in the large membership of insurance association in friendly society organisations and [?] other bodies…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Fell Down a Quarry. Furniture Van Smashed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 8

A Pantechnicon van, belonging to Messrs. Hyde and Co., of 284 Oxford-street, Paddington, and hauled by two horses, fell over an embankment near Glenmore-road, Paddington,…

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Two Girls Drowned. A Shocking Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 4

A bathing fatality, involving the loss of two lives, occurred on Friday afternoon, at the residence of Mr. Marcus Clark, Marrickville-road, Marrickville…

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Boating Fatality. a Young Man Drowned. Four Persons Rescued

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 8

Louis Litlle, a young man, lately residing at 47 Brougham-street, Woolloomooloo, lost his life yesterday morning in the harbour through a rowing boat swamping. Four other…

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A Boating Fatality. Man Drowned. Others Narrowly Escape. an Exciting Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 9

A boating fatality occurred in the harbor shortly before 12 o'clock yesterday, when a young man named Louis Little was drowned. From information supplied by the water…

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Yachtsman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 10

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Early this morning, Herbert Eustace Hall (29) and Arnold Richardson started from the Henley Beach jetty for Port Adelaide, having taken part in a regatta…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The body of the young man recovered from the river on Sunday has been identified as that of Martin James Caire, a steward on the Kanowna, who was…

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