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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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The Clan Ranald Disaster. Vessel Founders in a Gale. Nearly the Whole of Her Crew Lost. Wheat Cargo Valued at £20,000. Graphic Details of the Wreck. Eleven Bodies Washed Ashore. the Captain Drowned. Adelaide

The Australian Star · Tuesday 2 February 1909 · page 6

One of the most appalling calamities in Shipping records of South Australia occurs red on Sunday night, when the steamer Clan Ranald, of 359C gross tonnage, foundered in…

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Surf-bathing Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The young man Dwan. Cameron, who was drowned while surfbathing on Dudley Beach on Sunday morning last, wan a resident of Bathurst, and was on a…

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A Chinese Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 10

A Chinese named Yook Kee was drowned in Prospect Crook, about a mile from Smithfield on Sunday morning last. He had evidently slipped off a plank in the creek, from which he had…

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Drowned in Prospect Creek

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 2

A Chinaman named Yook Koo was drowned in Prospect Creole about a mile from Smithfield, on Sunday morning. The Chinaman evidently slipped off a…

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A Terrible Wreck. Forty Men Drowned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 53

A shipping disaster, attended with great loss of life, occurred off the South Australian Coast on the night of January 31, the steamer Clan Ranald, 3596 tons, which left Port Adelaide on…

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Nineteen Persons Drowned. London, Tuesday, 2.55 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 1

Through the capsizing of a boat at Lecco, on the Lake of Como, Italy, yesterday seventeen women and two men were drowned…

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Boy Drowned at Orange. a Pathetic Death. Orange

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 6

A drowning fatality of a very distressing nature occurred at Euchureena yesterday afternoon after the very heavy, storm which passed over the locality. A boy named…

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Nearly a Collision. Tow Line of Ormuz Parts. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 9

When the R.M.S. Ormuz was proceeding into the harbour at Fremantle under tow of the launch Awhina to-day, the line parted. The mail steamer narrowly avoided a collision with…

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How the Advance Went Down. the Collision with the Iverna. Evidence at the Marine Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 13

The collision between the barque iverna and the tug Advance off Newcastle on Christmas night, by which the Advance was sunk and seven lives lost, was investigated yesterday by the…

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Loss of the Advance Captain Fegan's Story. How the Collision Occurred. "Good God! He Is Going to Run Into Us."

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 7

The Marine Court inquiry before Judge Murray, and Captains J. B. Carcenter, and A. Hay (assessors), into the circumstances of the collision…

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Playing at Soldiers. Boy's Serious Accident. Dungog

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 9

A young son of Mr. Thos. Bourke, of Booral, met with a serious accident while playing with firearms. The boy in company with other children was having a game of soldiers, using…

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Fatalities and Accidents. "The Only Way." Death at National Park

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 10

Late yesterday afternoon two of the National Park rangers found a man lying unconscious in a cave, about' two miles up the river from Audley. Alongside the body was a…

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Police Have an Accident. How the Bystanders Conducted Themselves

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 10

BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--At 6, o'clock last evening, a police, vehicle under escort went up to the Block 10 mine. When the waggonette was returning the horse shied and plunged,…

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Boy Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 4

ORANGE. Wednesday.--On Monday afternoon, at Euchareena, as a boy named Page, aged 12, was returning home and leading his aged blind grandfather, they came to a flooded creek. The…

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Two Granville Boys Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 4

Daniel and Michael O'Brien, aged 7 and 10 years respectively, sons of Mr. M. J. O'Brien, of Jordan-street, Granville, were drowned in a. waterhole at the Sandown Meat Works on the…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Two Brothers Drowned in a Waterhole

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 4

Four lads aged 7, 9, 10, and 11 years respectively, sons of Mr. Michael J. O'Brien, of Jordan-street, Granville, after school yesterday afternoon went to bathe in a…

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Coach Overturned. Passengers Injured. Candelo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 10

Whilst proceeding to Tathra with a coach-load of passengers this morning Mr. Riley's horses took fright at a motor-car near Kanoona Bridge and plunged off the road,…

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A Priest's Narrow Escape in a Buggy Accident

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 7

The Rev. Fathen Farthing, of Milton (N.Z.) had (writes a correspondent), a truly miraculous escape from serious accident one day last week Accompanied by a young…

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Bathing Accident at Windsor

Evening News · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 5

WINDSOR, Thursday.—Miss Callaghan, daughter of Dr. Callaghan, had a narrow escape while bathing in the river. She and Miss Edna Moses were bathing at the sport set apart…

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Fatalities and 'Accidents. Double Drowning Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 8

An inquest on the bodies of the two lads, Daniel and Michael O'Brien. 7 and 10 years of ago respectively, who were drowned in a waterhole at Sandown Meat' Works, Parramatta River,…

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