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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

4,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 209

Pealing Lugger Sunk. Two Men Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 6

THURSDAY ISLAND, Tuesday.—The Government ketch Mystic returned yesterday from the relief expedition, on which she was sent two weeks ago to bring in some miners…

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Injured by a Tree. Mullumbimby

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 7

A serub-feller named Dunn met with a painful accident. He was felling a tree, when it lodged on another, and shot back, breaking one of his thighs and injuring his spine. He…

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Newcastle. Found Drowned in the Harbour. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 8

Early this afternoon the body of a man was seen floating in the harbour, near the Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Company's wharf. The Water Police recovered the…

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Wreck of the Imperatrix Forty of the Crew Drowned London, Monday, 3.20 p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 1

Forty of the crew of the Austrian Lloyd steamer Imperatrix, which was wrecked at Cape Elaphonisi, South-west Crete, in a gale, were drowned…

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Shocking Accident at Balmain. Sugar-boiler Severely Scalded

Evening News · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 5

A sugar-boiler Darned Harry Brooks, 36, residing in Mansfield-street, Balmain, met with serious injuries this afternoon. He was emplayed on the sugar refining works of Messrs…

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Mail Steamer Stranded. the Accident to the R.m.s. Moldavia. Ashore on the Goodwin Sands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 7

Advices to hand by yesterday's mail contained further details of the sensational mishap to the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Moldavia—one of the five largest vessels employed…

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Casualties and Fatalities. Accidental Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 7

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday on the death of James Ambrose Appleton, which occurred on January 22. The deceased, who was manager of the Sydney Biturine Co.,…

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Accident on the Ventura a Fall Into a Bunker

The Australian Star · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 7

The inquest into the death of a man named Joseph Ambrose Appleton, which took place on the 20th of January last, as a result of injuries received through failing into a…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Fractured Leg

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 8

Sidney Brown (10), residing in Mitchell-street, Glebe Point, fell from a fence at his home yesterday evening, oustaining a fracture of the left leg. He was admitted to the Royal Prince…

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Another Pea-rifle Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 8

PERTH (W.A.), Monday.--At Fremantle yesterday afternoon a young man, John Attenborough, was fatally shot by James Tomlinson. The two young men were practising with pea…

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Collision Off the Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 10

NELSON'S BAY. Tuesday.--A collision occurred off Broughton Island this morning between the North Coast steamer Nymboida and the ketch Rozelle. The jibboom and bobstay…

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Explosion on a Destroyer. Six Stokers Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--A tube in one of the boilers of the torpedo-boat destroyer Dragon exploded yesterday, while the vessel was lying off Corfu…

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Loss of the Imperatrix. Forty Sailors Drowned. London, Feb. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 9

In the wreck of the Austrian Lloyd steamer Imperatrix, off South-west Crete, 40 members of the crow were drowned. All the passengers were saved…

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Collision at Sea Steamer Nymboida and Ketch Rozelle Both Vessels-damaged

The Australian Star · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 5

The arrival of the ketch Rozelle at Nelson's Bay yesterday in a damaged condition has been explained. She collided with the North Coast steamer…

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Workmen's Mishaps. a Miner's Injured Leg Restored by Zam-buk Balm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 52

Busy workers in all departments of labor should make a point of always keeping a pot of Zam-Buk Balm handy in order to cope immediately with any mishap that they may…

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Shocking Burning Accident. Five Children Incinerated

Evening News · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday Evening—while [?] man was boiling tar in the kitcihen of his house at Bristol, an accident occurred, and the blazing tar set the family on fire. The…

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Casualties. Serious Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 9

Harry Brooks, 36, a sugar boiler, residing in Mansfield-street, Balmain, and working at Poolman'a sugar works, White's Bay, was walking along a plank at the works…

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A Burning Accident. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 9

Miss Stewart, probationer at the Lithgow Hospital, waa the victim of a serious burning aecident this morning, when her dross caught fire from a lighted candle which she had…

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Shocking Accident to a Sugar-boiler a Fall Into Boiling Water

The Australian Star · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 6

A shocking accident happened to a man named Harry Brooks, at White Bay yesterday. Brooks, who is 36 years of age, and who resides at Mansfield- street,…

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Shipping Accidents Steamer Karatine Aground Heavy Seas on the Coast

The Australian Star · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 6

The shipping board at the General Postoffice yesterday afternoon contained several notices of interest to shipping people and others. Several vessels were reported to be…

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