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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

4,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 209

Wharf Laborer Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 10

A wharf laborer, Victor Nelson, was taken to Sydney Hospital by the Civil Ambulance and Transport Corps yesterday morning suffering from a compound fracture or the right leg…

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Wharf Labourer Injured

The Australian Star · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 6

A wharf labourer named Victor Nelson, 23, residing at Gloucester-street, city, was yesterday conveyed to the Sydney Hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the…

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Serious Tram Accident. Inspector-general of Police Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 9

Mr. Thomas Garvin, Inspector-General of the New South Wales Police, met with a painful accident yesterday morning. He was a passenger on the 8.40 tram from…

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A Youth Badly Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 10

Sydney Morris, l8, residing with his father at the Sydney Grammar School, was caught in a machinery belt at Hodgklnson's foundry, King-street, Newtown, yesterday, and was…

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Boy Terribly Injured Caught in Machinery Belting

The Australian Star · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 7

Sydney Morris, a son of the headmaster of the Sydney Grammar School, was admitted to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday suffering from a compound fracture of…

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Inspector-general of Police Injured. a Fall From a Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 10

Mr. Thomas Garvin, Inspector-General of Police, met with a serious accident yesterday morning, his right thigh being broken. Mr. Garvin, who resides in Challis-avenue, Darlinghurst,…

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Cooktown Hurricane. Ketch Pilot Lost. with All Hands. Mr. Hargreaves, M.L.A., Among the Drowned. Cooktown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 9

The steamer Seymour returned at 5 o'clock this aftemoon, after a thorough but fruitless search for the Government ketch Pilot, which is now considered lost with all hands…

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Accident at the Zigzag

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 6

Particulars have just leaked out. (writes our Lithgow correspondent), that an accident happened on the top of the zigzag a day or two ago. A train with two engines attached was…

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Accident in France. London, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 9

An explosion of firedamp occurred in Lievin colliery, Pas-de-Calais, Northern France, and killed several miners…

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Pea Rifle Accident. Molong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 10

Frederick Davis was out shooting on Saturday morning, when his pea-rifle expleded as he was getting through a fence, the pellet perforating his side. He is stil suffering…

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Fatal Burning Accident. Murrurundi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 10

A little girl, five years of ago, daughter of Mrs. Hearle, was severely burned on Friday last through her clothes getting alight. She was at once removed to the hospital, but…

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Mr. Garvin's Accident Superintendent A. B. Walker Appointed Acting Inspector General of Police

The Australian Star · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 7

Superintendent A. B. Walker, of Goulburn, the senior superintendent in New South Wales, and the officer who shot the bushranger Thunderbolt, has been appointed to…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Man Takes Strychnine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 10

An elderly man, J. G. Stephenson, a resident of Park-avenue, Ashfield, "was taken from the Outer Domain yesterday afternoon by the Civil Ambulance and Transport Corps to Sydney…

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Serious Accident at Baulkham Hills

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 2

On Monday, a serious accident happened to Jas. Doyle, said to be a driver in the employ of Mr. Gourlay, of North Sydney. It appears that Doyle fell from his…

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Rescued From Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 8

Mr. J. C. Fitzjohn Hall, of Pile-street, Marrickville, writes to say that while bathing at Tamarama Bay on Saturday he was carried out by the undertow, but was rescued after a hard…

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Randwick Tram Fatality

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 7

The circumstances connected with the death of James Ambrose Hibberson, 16, a recent arrival from Booligal, who died as the result of injuries received through falling off a tram at…

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Two Men Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 8

DENILIQUIN, Wednesday.--The bodies of Thomas Percival Hall, bookkeeper, and Thomas Valentine Smith, preserver, both employed at the freezing works, were recovered by the police…

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Miners Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 8

BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--William Hood, employed on the Proprietary Mine, was working in Block 12, at the 500ft, level, when a rock rolled down upon him. He sustained injuries to…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 5

BATHURST, Thursday.—A magisterial inquiry held concerning the death of Peter Smith, 22, which occurred at Bathurst Hospital at 10 o'clock this morning, it was stated that Smith…

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Drummoyne Shooting Fatality the Coroner's Inquest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 3

An inquest was held yesterday by the City Coroner, Mr. A.N. Barnett, on the death of William Joseph O'Brien, which occured at the Balmain Cottage Hospital on the 27th…

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