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Accidents, 1909

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A Rescuer Drowned

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1909 · page 12

Last week Airs. hogg, wife of the principal of an educational academy in Adelaide, was bathing at Robe. and was carried off her feet out to the get by the backwash. .She managed to keep afloat…

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Two Girls Drowned in Tank

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1909 · page 12

Two Girls, one 12 and the other 15 years old, Daughters of Mr. T. Griflths, the Warden's bailiff, Wyalong, were accidentally drowned while bathing in the railway tank…

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Taxicab and Waggon Collide. Passengers Injured. Melbourne, Saturday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1909 · page 7

One of the newly-arrived motor taxicabs collided with a waggon last night on the Cheltenham-road, a few miles from Melbourne, and sustained damage to the…

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Riots at Rio. Many Killed and Injured. London, Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1909 · page 7

Demonstrations against the bight and Power Company at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil eventually developed into riots as a protest against the violent…

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Sensational Mine Explosion. Chinaman Fires Gelatine Six Killed—twenty-four Injured. London Saturday Morning

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1909 · page 7

A Chinaman, whose motive is unknown, ignited a quantity of gelatine in a village at the Deep Mine, Johannesburg…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Clyde Works Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 8

Ad inquest touching, the death of James C. Robertson, who met his death in the erecting shop of the Clyde Works on Thursday afternoon, was held at Auburn on Saturday by. Mr…

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A Missing Traveller. Found Drowned at Coogee

Evening News · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 5

Patrick Ryan, a resident of Little Coogee, made a rather gruesome discovery upon going for a swim at that popular seaside resort this morning…

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Motor Kills Two. Man and Wife Fatally Injured Smash in the Dark

The Australian Star · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 8

A man and his wife were killed last month in a motor car collision in Leicestershire. A party had been shooting on the Garendon Estate of Mr. Everard de Lisle, the…

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Chinese on the Rand. an Explosion of Gelatine. Six Mex Killed; 24 Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 7

LONDON, Saturday.--A Chinese, without any apparent motive, ignited a ignited of quantity of gelatine in the Village Main Reef (Deep) Mine, Johannesburg…

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Riots in Rio Janeiro. Violent Police Methods. Many Killed and Injured. London, Jan. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 7

Demonstrations against the Light and Power Company in Rio Janeiro developed into riots, lasting three nights, as a protest against violent police methods of quelling…

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Late Gable News. Received To-day. Shocking Railway Collision. Goods and Passenger Trains Collide. Sixty-eight Lives Lost

Evening News · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday Evening.—A goods train collided with, a passenger train near Denver, Colorado, U.S. The drawing-room car was telescoped, 68 out…

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Support of Socialists. Passer Visits Injured Son. Under Police Escort. (From Our Special Reporter.) Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 8

Mr. Tom Mann has received the following table from Auckland:—"Auckland socialists appreciate brilliant stand, and co-workers; fight on. (Signed) Savago, secretary."…

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Accident at Marrickville. Girl Crushed by Machinery

Evening News · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 8

An accident occurred at Vicars' tweed factory, Victoria-road, Marrickville, on Saturday, when a girl named Sarah Green, between 16 and 17 years of age, residing with her parents at…

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Fatal Pea Rifle Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 8

Walter Reid, a young man, who was admitted to the Wallsend Hospital on Friday afternoon suffering from a rifle wound in the mouth, died early yesterday morning. He was 24 years of…

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The Ennerdale Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 1

After a preliminary inquiry into the accident in Buss Strait, in which the steamer Ennerdale was alleged to have struck some submerged, object, doing some damage to…

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Lift Fatality

The Australian Star · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 3

The lift accident at the premises of Messrs. W. W. Campbell and Co., Clarence-streat, on the 12th inst., whereby Arthur Charles Lucock, aged 30, clerk, lost his life, formed…

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Katoomba Bicycle Fatality

Evening News · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Tuesday.—The inquiry into the death of the young lady, Madeline Marion Johnson, who was knocked down by a bicycle, in Katoomba-street, on Wednesday night, and died…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Coal Lumper Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8

Fred Costello, a coal lumper, residing at Kent-street, while wheeling a skip of coal along a plank, at the Balmain New Ferry Company's wharf, Waterview Bay, slipped and…

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Tramway Fatality. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 5

Christian Uhrlaub, 14-year-old son of Mr. C. A. Uhrlaub, of Adelaide Observatory, was killed in Grenfell-street this morning. He slipped off a carette, the wheels of which…

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Drowned in the Torrens

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Monday.--An inquest was held to-day on the body of Michael O'Brien, in the employ of the tramway contractors. Deceased wont to the River Torrens to bathe, and as he…

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