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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

4,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 209

Late Cable News. Received This Morning. Attacked by Wolves. Two Men Devoured. Many Others Injured

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—While sleighing on the Roumanian frontier, a clergyman and his servant were attacked by wolves and devoured…

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Sensation at Cabramatta Married Woman Goes Mad and Attacks Her Children with an Axe Three Children Badly Injured

The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 1

The quiet little township of Cabramatta, which lies between Parramatta and Liverpool, was greatly, disturbed this morning ash result of an alleged attempted-murder in…

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Accidents

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

SURF bathing has recurred this summer with the usual recurrence of accidents, some of them fatal, and all requiring courageous rescues, and consequent additional risk to…

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Accident to the Tenterfield-casino Mail Coach

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 6

While coming into Casino on Tuesday night the Tenterlield-Casino Mail coach met with a mishap. Coming along a siding near the Sandilands…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

The inquest into the death of John Smith, a resident of Gl[?]be-road, which occurred at Prince Alfred Hospital as the result of a collision between a cart and a tram in…

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Cycling Accident. Molong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 8

A man named Thompson, whilst riding from Parkes to Molong yesterday, lost control of his bicycle when coming down Bumbury mountain. He lay in the road unconscious for…

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A Bather's Death Accident at Yarra Beach

The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 1

A young labourer named Alexander Thomas Field, who lately resided with hla wife and four children in Gerrard-street, Alexandria, died in the Coast Hospital this morning…

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Accident to a Somnambulist a Fall From a Balcony

The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

A middle-aged man named John F. O'Dowd met with a serious accident this morning while staying in Glebe-road, Glebe, where his wife resides. He went to bed as usual last night…

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Accidentally Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 6

The circumstances surrounding the death of Frederick Ernest Crone (49),. a cook, who was found unconscious in George-street, near Goulburn-street, early on Sunday morning, with a…

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Fatalities and Accidents a Seaman's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 6

The death of Thomas Aunla (50), a seaman, whose body was found in Sussex-street, near the foot of Market-street, on the morning of January 1, formed the subject of an inquest by…

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Saved From Drowning

Evening News · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 5

A boy had a narrow escape from drowning at Plumpton, Rooty Hill, on Thursday afternoon. A six-year-old boy, named Cooper, with another small boy named Tull, went to what…

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Death by Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 10

COPMANHURST, Friday. -- Ernest Stevens, employed by Mr. Clarence, of Newbold station, was drowned this afternoon. Senior-constable Caiman and a tracker have gone out…

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A Girl Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 4

At Kenny's Ladies Baths, St. Kilda, on New Year's Day, Eileen Fitzpatrick aged 15, was drowned. Miss Fitzpatrick was generally supposed to be a strong…

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Drowned While Crayfishing

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 10

COOLAMON, Friday. -- Garnet Price, aged eight years, was drowned yesterday afternoon while crayfishing in a tank…

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Drowning Cases. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 13

A verdict of accidental death was returned in the case of Alick Pengelley, who was drowned at Silverton on New Year's Day. At the inquest the conduct of the boy Harold…

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Curious Horse Accident

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 3

A horse belonging to an Er skineville dealer was found dead in a local paddock on Saturday, morning, with a deep wound in…

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Railway Accidents at Granville. Two Cars Derailed. Traffic Disorganised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 13

There were two accidents near the Granville railway station yesterday evening. Fortunately no casualties resulted, the worst feature of the mishaps being the delay…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Struck by a Flagstaff

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 10

George Thompson, a blacksmith, living at Ryde, was going home on New Year's Day when a fiagstaff fell on his head, and fractured his skull. He was attended by local medical men,…

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Accident on the Punt

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 4

An alarming accident occurred about mid-day on Friday, on the ferry punt giving access to Ryde from the Western suburbs. Two young men, brothers, whose…

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Accident at Liverpool

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 4

While driving a horse and cart at Liverpool on Wednesday, Frederick Thomas, 30, a laborer, caught his right leg in one of the wheels, and had in badly broken…

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