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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Law Report. Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Backhouse and Captains J. Vine Hall and J. J. Simpson.) Euryalus-warung Collision. No Call to Show Cause

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 4

In the matter of the circumstances attending the collision which occurred in Darling Harbour on November 9, between the steamer Euryalus and the tug Warung, Mr. Robison, of…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Death From Lockjaw

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 10

ALBURY, Tuesday.--Ten days ago, Wm. Sphers, aged 11, fell off a fence on to the axle of a perambulator, which penetrated his thigh Blood poisoning resulted, but under medical…

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Shunting Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 2

A man named William Thompson, employed at the Clyde marshalling yards, met with a painful accident whilst shunting was on the way on Saturday. He…

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Mining Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 8

ADELONG, Wednesday.--A sad fatality occurred yesterday at the Gibraltar Consolidated Mine. One of a party of tributers, Arthur Tillett, about 30 years of age, was entombed at…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 8

BATHURST, Wednesday.--At the inquest yesterday into the death of Frank Bennett, 60 years of age, who was found drowned in Macquarie River, near Denison Bridge, on Monday, a…

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A Fireman Drowned

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 1

The Water Police, while dragging in the vicinity of Dalgety's Wharf, Miller's Point, this morning, recovered the body of a fireman named Thomas Orr(23). lately…

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Drowned While Bathing

Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Miss Gertrude A[?]pt, 28, was spending a holiday at Warandyte, Which is 26 miles from Melbourne. She had been staying at the house of Professer 'Ewart,…

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Drowned in a Creek

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 8

BATHURST, Wednesday.--William D. Malone, 17 years old, son of Mrs. Malone, of Bodangora, was drowned in Wyagdon Creek near Wattle Flat. Deceased, was watering a horse at a hole…

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A Boy's Drowning. Brave Attempt at Rescue. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 8

On Monday afternoon Andrew Herbert Wilkinson, aged 10 years, was drowned at M'Kechnie's Dam, St. Arnaud. William Holmes, aged 12 years, made two gallant…

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Railway Cyclist Injured. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 8

A railway employee, Lenna Robson, was seriously injured, at Bellambi yesterday afternoon. He was returning to the station on a tricycle, after having been engaged at the…

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A Street Fatality. Result of Alleged Brawl

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 3

An inquest was held yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Barrett, 45. a tailor, of Abercromble-street, Sydney, which occurred at the Sydney…

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Drowned at Miller's Point. a Fireman's End

Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 4

Thomas Orr, 23, a fireman on the steamer Maravian, lying at the White Star Wharf, Miller's Point, was found drowned near that vessel this morning…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Buried for Seven Hours. Adelong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 8

A fatal accident occurred at Gibraltar mine yesterday. Daniel Wiles, Martin Donne[?]an, and Arthur Tillett, tributers, were running old stulls, when the rearing timber…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Fall From a Ladder

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 8

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--A carpenter, Walter Moss, met with a painful accident at Mt. Pleasant Colliery to-day. He was on a ladder fixing the root of the building when he…

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A Fireman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 8

The body of Thomas Orr, a fireman, recently employed on the steamer Moravian, was recovered by the Water Police near Dalgety's wharf. Miller's Point, yesterday morning. At L45 on…

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Jockey Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 8

MOSS VALE, Thursday.--in the Wingccarribee Plato, run at the Bong Bong meeting yesterday, as the horses Kyloe and Pleasure were overhauling the leader. Schooner, Pleasure for some…

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Injured by Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 8

MOUNT VICTORIA, Thursday.--This morning a man named Leinster, a ganger, in charge of the men making the now road over the Victoria Pass, was filling holes with powder for…

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A Groom Injured

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 2

Alfred, Kerrigan, 30, a .groom residing in Sutherland Avenue, Paddlngton, was riding a horse along Cleveland-street, near. Dowling-street,Redfern, this morning. The horse…

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Railway Porter Injured

The Australian Star · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 4

Charles Chessell, a railway pa[?]er, living in Albury-street, Croydon, was engaged cleaning a carriage at the Central Railway Station this morning, when he slipped from a platform…

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Shocking Burning Fatality. Deniliquin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 8

On Tuesday afternoon a little girl, Ruby Campbell, from Hay, aged 11 years, who is spending a holiday with Mrs. Hugh Carr, North Deniliquin, was assisting with culinary…

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