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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

4,325 stories in Sydney's papers · page 80 of 217

Accident or Morder? Crown Prince of Servia. Shoots a Soldier

Evening News · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday Evening.—The "Vossiche Zeitung," one of the principal daily papers of Berlin, states that the Crown Prince of Servia, while amusing himself by shooting the ash off…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Evening News · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 5

CLIFTON, Friday.—The several serious and fatal accidents Which occurred yesterday cast a gloom over this portion of the South Coast. Miss Tindell, who was badly injured in the coach…

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Accident on a Steamer

Evening News · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 5

An accident occurred on board the ocean steamer Hyson while she was lying at the Central Wharf, Miller's Point, this afternoon. A ten ton boiler was being lifted out of the hold…

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An Accident Fund. Helensburgh

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 10

The Helensburgh "Thistle" Football Club, at their meeting last night, expressed sympathy with their comrade, Mr. G. Clarke, who had his knee-cap fractured last Saturday during a competition game…

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Shipping Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 5

Those on board the big Blue Funnel li[?]er Hyson, berthed at the Central Wharf, had a thrilling experience yesterday morning, and several men narrowly escaped with their lives…

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A Painter's Fall Accident at Kensington

The Australian Star · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 7

A painter named Augustus Hampel, residing in Angel-street, Newtown, was seriously injured yesterday while engaged [?]painting operations at the Sacred Heart Consent…

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Accident at Wollongong Man Falls From Scaffolding. Wollongong

The Australian Star · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 7

A well-known resident of Wollongong, Edward Sloan, met with a serious accident at Cokedale this morning. W[?] engaged [?] his work he fell from a [?], and…

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Accident to a Cook

The Australian Star · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 4

Early this morning, George St. Croix, a cook on the steamer Bon Bolt, lying at Pike's wharf, Balmain, was attempting to open a gate leading to the wharf, when it slipped off…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Fatal Fall

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 8

Whilst Michael Costello (55), a fishmonger, of Sussex-street, City, was walking along that thoroughfare yesterday morning, he slipped on the pavement, and his bead struck the ground…

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Fatal Diving Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 8

The City Coroner (Mr. S. Murphy) held an inquest yesterday at the North Sydney police station on the body of Ernest Corrigan (20), lately residing at West-street, North Sydney, who died…

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Accident at Central Station

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 8

At about 6 o'clock last night Isaacs Hulme (45), residing at Macquarie-street, North Botany, was working in the Central Railway Station yards with a gang of signal fitters, when he…

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The Woonona Collision. Inquest Opened. Condition of the Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 9

BULLI, Friday. -- This morning an inquest was held at the Court-house by Mr. W. H. Rees, deputy-coroner, touching on the death of Thompson Bennett, who was killed in the South…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 10

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- On Friday a body was found floating in Torrens Lake. It appeared to have been in the water about 24 hours. On the body a book, with the name "Charles Hold"…

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The Bellambi Collision. Deputy Coroner's Inquiry. Serious Condition of Injured. Woonona

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 14

The Deputy Coroner, Mr. W. H. Rees, of Wollongong, held an inquiry this morning at the Bulli Police Court respecting the death of the coach-driver killed in the Bellambi…

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Footballer Injured

Evening News · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 9

During the match on the University Oval between Glebe and Sydney two members of the Sydney team collided and William Small, 23. residing at Boslyn Gardens Darlinghurst…

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Cart and Tram Collision at Dawe's Point

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 13

William Morgan, living at No. 171 Riley-street, Surry Hills, met with serious injuries this morning, as the result of his cart colliding with a tramcar. Morgan was turning…

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Injured List 430! the Railway Disaster

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Claims were received to-day by the Railway Department from two passengers, who stated that they had been injured in the Braybrook Junction collision,…

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Wife's True Dream Night Vision of Her Drowned Husband

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 4

A strange stony attaches to the recovery on April 1 of the body of a man from the River Avon, near Evesham (Eng.), Little doubt is entertained that the body is that…

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The Murrurundi Smash. Claims by the Injured

Evening News · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 5

In connection with the railway accident at Murrurundi Station early on Good Friday morning last, number of those who were injured have, through their solicitor, lodged…

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Fall From Scaffolding Injured Man Succumbs. Clifton

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 15

A fatality occurred at Coledale yesterday. A man named Sloan was on a scaffolding, engaged in work in connection with the new slack-box at the North Buill colliery, when…

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