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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Skycraper in Flames a New York Fire Thirteen-storied Building Destroyed Rotten Hose and Inadequate Water Pressure Three Firemen Killed and 25 Injured London, Sunday, 12.30 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 1

New Yorkers witnessed a great spectacle last night--the magnificent, but disastrous, spectacle of a 13-storied skyscraper in flames. The premises involved were those known…

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Two Brothers Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 8

BRISBANE, Monday.--A double drowning accident occurred last night at Mount Morgan. A number of boys were swimming in one of the company's dams, when a lad, Patrick Henry,…

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Old Man Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 8

BATHURST, Monday.--Frank Bennett, 60 years of ago, unmarried, was found, drowned in Macquarie River, at Bathurst, this afternoon. It is thought he slipped, into…

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A Boy Drowned

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 7

An inquest was held at the Coroner's Court yesterday into the death of Hugh Lundle, five years of age. lately residing with his parents in Panul-steet, Balmain, whose…

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Miners Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 8

BROKEN-HILL. Monday.--J. Hoare, a minor, employed at the Central mine, had a the broken this morning through a rook falling on it while he was working at the 700ft. level…

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Children Injured and Killed

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 4

A sad accident is cabled out. Crowds of young children had gone; to Barnsley Hall (Yorkshire) to attend a cinnematograph entertainment. Owing…

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Child Drowned in a Milk Can

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 5

LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—At Springfield, near Scottsdale, the two-year-old daughter of a farmer named Wm. Cherry, lost her life In a peculiar manner. The father and mother had…

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West Hampstead Collision. Signalman Acquitted. London, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 7

Hollis, a signalman, indicted for manslaughter, in connection with the collision between two trains at West Hampstead metropolitan station on October 26,…

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Collision in Darling Harbor. Euryalus and Warung. Marine Court Inquiry

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 4

The circumstances attending the collision between the steamer Euryalus and the tug Warung, which occurred in Darling Harbor on November 9 last, were investigated this morning…

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Euryalus-warung Collision Marine Court Inquiry Decision of the Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 5

The attention of the Marine Court--Judge Backhouse, Captains John Vine Hall and John James Simpson, assessors--was occupied this morning with the inquiry into the…

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Railway Accident at Wolgan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 7

A platelayer in the employ of the Commonwealth Oil Company, named Donald Stewart, aged 35, met with a painful accident while going to work at Wolgan about 7…

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Accidents to Miners. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 8

A miner, J. Hoare, had a toe broken at the Central mine to-day through a fall of stone at the 700ft level. John O'Shea, a miner of the Proprietary…

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Another Pea-rifle Accident. Walgett

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 8

A. A. M'Kenzie, an employee of Buckingny station, was out rabbit shooting in the horse paddock yesterday, with a man named Mayger, when the latter's pea rifle went off…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Knocked Down by a Truck

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 8

Donald Stewart, 35, a platelayer, employed by the Commonwealth Oil Co., while proceeding to work at Wolgan yesterday morning was knocked down by a truck, and, sustained severe injuries…

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Railway Collision. Nine People Injured. London, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 9

The Lancahsirks[?] Yorkshire express came into collision wit[?] the North Western Railway Company's [?]press at Huddersfield yesterday. Nine people were seriously…

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Youth Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 10

PERTH (W.A.), Tuesday.--Thomas Nyham, aged 21, employed at Hoskins' Foundry, Bayswater, was drowned yesterday evening, while attempting to swim across the Swan at Belmont…

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Infant Drowned in a Pond

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 10

Gladstone Ray, 15 months old, the son of Mr. John Ray, enginedriver, residing at Holmesville, near West Wallsend, was found drowned in a small waterhole in the garden…

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Child Drowned in a Waterhole

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--Gladstone Ray, 15 months old, was found drowned in a waterhole near his parents' residence, at Holmesville, to-day. A few minutes previous to the body…

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Shocking Riding Accident. Well-known Grazier Injured. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Smith, a wealthy grazier owner of Narrogal estate, Mumbil, and Glenrock estate Wellington and father of Mr. Bede Smith, the interstate footballer, met with a…

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Law. Tuesday, January 14. Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Backhouse, President, and Captains J. V. Hall and J. J. Simpson, assessors,) the Euryalus-warung Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 13

The collision in Darling Harbor between the steamer Euryalus and the tug Warung early on the morning of November 9, by which the Warung was sunk, was investigated by the Court…

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