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Accidents, 1910

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Sailing Fatality

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 2

The name of the boy who was drowned in Sydney Harbor on Saturday afternoon the capsizing of a 6ft dingey between Port Denison and the P. and O. buoy, was Henry Walter…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Harbor Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 8

Henry Walter Rae (16), who lived with his parents at Munro-street, Berry's Bay, was drowned in tho harbor on Saturday afternoon. In company with two other lads, Fletcher and…

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Tram Driver Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 6

Charles Hansen, a tram driver, living in Garden-street, city, was alighting from an omnibus in King-street, Newtown, yesterday, when he was knocked down by a motor car,…

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Injured at Play

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 8

QUIRINDI. Saturday.--While a number of boys were playing about a buggy, Mark Pegler (12) was severely injured. By some means he fell to the ground. and the buggy was…

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Injured Bridegroom's Pluck

The Star · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 7

While working in the pit at half past three in the morning, at Longton, Staffordshire, a collier had one of his legs badly crushed. He had arranged to he married later in the day…

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Bread Carter Badly Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 8

At about 8.25 o'clock on Saturday morning William Quill (24), a bread carter, living at 16 Forsyth-street, Glebe, was driving a cart along King-street, near Brown-street, Newtown, when…

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Found Drowned. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 7

The body of Herbert Edmond S[?]ath Gardiner (30) waa found in the Swan River at Perth yesterday. NEWCASTLE, Sunday…

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Drowned in a Foot of Water

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 8

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Information has been received from Normanton to the effect that T. J. Bates, storekeeper, left his home early on Friday morning, and was subsequently found…

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Another Surf Fatality. Constable Caught in Undertow. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 6

The first surf fatality which has over occurred on the Lorn beach happened to-day. Mounted Constable Martin J. Dwyer, of Winchelsea, Mr. Cecil Stewart, and Mr. Albert…

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A Liner Lost in Magellan Strait. Fifty Persons Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon--The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's liner Lima has been wrecked in Magellan Strait, the waterway between Tierra del Fuego and…

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The Ingleburn Shooting. Death of the Injured Man

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 5

Henry Small, the young man who was admitted to the Parramatta Hospital this day week, suffering from a gunshot wound in the arm, died there this morning…

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Fatal Wrecks. Mail Boat Founders. One Survivor Out of 134 Persons. Passengers Drowned in Their Berths

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Saturday.—The French mail bout, General Chanzy, belonging to the Compagnie Generale Transtlantique, and running between Marseilles and Algiers…

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Accident on a Steamship. Trimmer's Unsuccessful Claim

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 5

A accident aboard the steamship Age, while she was in Newcastle Harbor on July 9 last, formed the subject of an action for £200 compensation, before Judge Backhouse, in the…

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A Peculiar Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 8

Charles Shaw, 28, living in Raglan-street, Waterloo, waa firing a furnace at the Fresh Food and Ice Works with large logs last night, when one of the logs struck the side…

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Accident to a Wharf-labourer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 7

Robert MacKechnic, 52, a wharf-labourer, living in Mitchell-street, Glebe, was admitted by Dr. P[?]ker to the Sydney Hospital with an injury to the spine[?] the result…

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Motor Car Accidents. a Woman Run Over. Driver Arrested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 6

Annie Steene, 29, a domestic servant, living in Ferndale-street, Newtown, was knocked down at about 12.30 p. m. on Saturday by a motor-car, as she was crossing King-street,…

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Fireman's Peculiar Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 8

A fireman, Charles Shaw (28), of 117 Raglanstreet, Waterloo, employed at the Fresh Food and Ice Company's Works, met with a severe accident last night. He was firing the boilers…

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Surf Bathing Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Mounted Constable Dwyer, of Winchelsea, was drowned while bathing at Lorne yesterday. Dwyer went into the open sea for a swim, when he was caught…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning Mullumbimby

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 8

A narrow escape from drowning occurred at Brunswick Heads yesterday. A farm servant went swimming in the South Arm. The tide was running out fast, and the man was…

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Injured at a Mill

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 8

COFF'S HARBOR JETTY, Monday.--Thos Droney (35) was seriously injured at the British Australian Timber Company's mill by about a ton of wood falling on him' from an…

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