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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

4,325 stories in Sydney's papers · page 82 of 217

Fatal Burning Accident at Kogarah

Evening News · Monday 11 May 1908 · page 5

The little girl Dorothy Dixon, aged 2, who resided in Palmerston-street. Kogarah, and was admitted to St. George's Cottage Hospital suffering from burns, received through her…

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Accident in a Circus

The Australian Star · Monday 11 May 1908 · page 2

A Brussels correspondent reports that two athletes named Saxon have been nearly killed at Beketow's Circus in that city. They were performing for the third time a new trick, allowing a heavy motor -car…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Gored by a Bull

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 May 1908 · page 8

When a young man named Harvey M'Gowan, in the employ of Mrs. M'Carthy, at her dairy in Wharf-road. Concord, was taking a bull to the drinking trough on Saturday afternoon he…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 10

BRISBANE, Monday.--The body of Alexander M'Lennan, 32, was found in the river at Brisbane to-day…

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Drowned in 3Ft of Water

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 10

SINGLETON, Monday.--There was a sad drowning fatality near Jerry's Plains on Friday afternoon. Norah Ayres was driving her mother home to Carrington, and when the horse…

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A Serious Accident Well-known Orchardist Injured Parramatta

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon Fred Hearsey a well-known orchardist aged 42, residing, at North Ryde, was in charge of a train-load of horses coming down from Bourke. He was walking…

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Fractured Ribs Wharf Laborer Injured

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 6

At noon yesterday, George Wilson, aged 50, years, a wharf laborer, living at 62 Kellett-street, Waterloo, was working on the steamer Hymettus, moored at Woolloomooloo Bay,…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Strange Death of a Child

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 10

George Boyce, a lad aged 3, lately residing with his parents at Pyrmont, died at the Children's Hospital yesterday from the effects of alcohol. The child's father missed him from his…

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Victorian Railway Accidents. Braybrook Junction Inquest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Coroner's inquiry into the death of a victim in the Braybrook railway disaster was opened at the Morgue to-day…

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Supposed Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 10

PERTH (W.A.), Tuesday.—A young man named of Irwan, employed at Millar's Karri Jarrah Company, at Karridale, is supposed to have been washed off the rocks near Caldacup, while…

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Coach and Train in Collision. Shocking Accident at Bellambi

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 1233

A sensational accident occurred at Bellambi oh Thursday afternoon, at the point where the South Bulli Company's tram line intersects the main South Coast road. Mr…

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Hospital Nurse Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 10

BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--Nurse Copley came into collision with a shying horse at the corner of Bonanza and Eyre streets, South Broken-hill, to-day, and was very badly bruised…

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Collision in the Harbour. Ferry Steamer and Tug. Warung Beached at Goats Island

Evening News · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 6

The Balmain New Ferry Company's steamer Lady Carrington and Mr. Wallace's tugboat Waning came into collision in the harbor this morning. The mishap occurred near Goat…

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Warung Sunk Again Another Harbor Collision the Lady Carrington Strikes a Tug a List of Disasters

The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 1

The well-known harbor tug Waning was in still another collision this morning, and now lies beached on Goat Island. The Balmain ferry steamer Lady Carrington collided…

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Railway Administration. How Accidents Are Investigated. the Law Hebe and in Other Countries

Evening News · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 4

In England, at the present time, the railways as worked by private companies, are constructed under' and regulated by Statute law passed as early as 1840. These Acts were…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Severely Burned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 10

Mrs. Huxley married woman, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital last night suffering from severe burns. She accidentally overturned a lamp at her home, and her clothing became…

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Murrurundi Railway Accident Inquiry

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 54

The findings of the Special Board of Inquiry appointed in connection with 'he railway smash at Murrurundi on Good Friday morning, are as follows:--…

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Barangaroo-s. A. Hayward Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 May 1908 · page 4

The preliminary inquiry Into the circumstances attending the recent collision between the ferry steamer Barangaroo and the ketch S.A. Hayward. off Fort Macquarie, will be…

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The Barrangaroo[?]s. A. Hayward Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 May 1908 · page 8

The preliminary inquiry by the Department of Navigation into the circumstances of the collision which occurred on May 5 between the vehicular ferry steamer Barrangaroo and the ketch S. A. Hayward, will be…

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Harbour Collision. the Lady Carrington and Warung

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 May 1908 · page 7

Shortly before 8.30 a.m. yesterday a collision occurred between the ferry steamer Lady Carrington, belonging to the Balmain New Ferry Company, and the steam tug Warung, owned…

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