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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

3,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 187

The Harbor Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 6

The dreadful catastrophe on Sydney Harbor yesterday, when the steamer Dunmore ran into a boat containing a number of sailors from H.M.S. Encounter, 15 of whom were drowned, is…

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Omitted to Report Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 8

F. E. Munro, of Moorgate-street City was proceeded against on summons at the Central Police Court, for having omitted to report an Sent, which took place in a joiner's…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Fall From a Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 11

Alexander Sellers (17), residing at Waverley, fell from the front of a tramcar in Oxford-street yesterday morning, and sustained a severe scalp wound and concussion of the brain…

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The Naval Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 8

The accident in Sydney Harbor yesterday morning by which fifteen British sailors in the prime of life were drowned within ti few yards of the shore, and…

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Berthing Accident. Moruya and Peterborough Collide

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 10

While Doing brought to a berth at the Illawarra and South Coast S.S. Company's Wharf, Darling Harbor, yesterday, the steamer Moruya (525 tons) came into collision with the steamer…

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Peculiar Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 11

FORBES, Tuesday.--E. J. Hodder, a car attendant, met with an accident at the local railway yards this morning. While reaching to turn the gas tap off, two ears bumped together, and…

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Bad Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 2

On Saturday evening, a painful accident happened near the corner of Church and Phillip streets, in which young Jos, Mahony (13), son of Mr. Hy. Mahony,…

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Shocking Harbor Collision Sixty-seven Bluejackets Struggle for Life. Fifteen Men Drowned

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 24

The biggest accident that happened to the men from England on the men-o'-war occurred early on Tuesday morning last in the Sydney Harbour, when the steamer…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Boy Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 8

The Coroner's inquiry hold with regard to the death of Edward Lewis, aged 6 years, drowned at Miller's Point, on December 31, elicited that [?] punt at Parbury's Wharf when…

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"Teddy" Anderson Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 3

BROKEN HILL, Thursday.—john Edward Anderson, well known in Broken Hill as "Teddy" Anderson, was drowned in Darling Hirer recently. He went in for a dip…

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A Double Drowning. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 11

A sad drowning accident occurred at Lowood on Saturday, resulting in the death of Daisy Ella Board, aged 16, a daughter of Mr. Board, chief clerk of the Lands Department,…

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Railway Conductor Injured

Evening News · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 6

On the arrival of the Sydney train at Forbes yesterday. Car-conductor E. T. Hodder, while fixing the air taps between the brake van and ono of the carriages, had his arm severely…

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Testing an Injured Man. Compensation Sequel

Evening News · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 8

A remarkable case came before Sir William Selfe at Marylebone County Court, London. when an application was made on behalf of Messrs. Neave and Son, contractors, of…

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The Last Honors To the Drowned Bluejackets the Funeral Imposing and Pathetic Pageant

The Australian Star · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 7

This afternoon the comrades of the fifteen young blue jackets who were drowned yesterday morning paid the lost honors to the departed…

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The Harbour Accident

Watchman · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 4

Such occurrences as that of Tuesday morning are among those mysterious events for which the most imaginative fail to find a reason. The God who "moves in a…

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A New Messina. Government to Lend the Money. Accident to a Battleship. Family's Remarkable Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon,--King Emmanuel and the Italian Government are determined that Messina shall be rebuilt, the Government lending tho money on very…

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Fifteen Bluejackets Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 13

On Tuesday morning a naval pinnace, in which were nearly seventy men belonging to H.M.S. Encounter, when being towed from the vessel to…

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Drowned in a Waterhole

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The Commissioner of Police has received a report from the Hawker police, stating that Ernest Alfred Hudleston (20) has been accidentally drowned while…

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Drowned in Sydney Harbour

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 6

The must disastrous accident that ever be[?] humans in Sydney Harbour occurred on Tuesday morning, when fifteen sailors of H.M.S. Encounter…

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Previous Collision of the Dunmore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 7

The steamer Dunmore had a collision on May 13. 1902, of a particularly startling character. She had left Sydney late at night for Shellharbour, in charge of Captain…

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