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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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Express and Waggon Collide. Three Horses Killed. Driver Seriously Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--This morning, at a railway crossing near Mount Bryan, F. Opperman was driving a team of horses harnessed to a load of wheat, when the Broken-hill…

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Derailments in Canada. Many Persons Injured. Convicts to the Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 7

VANCOUVER, Thursday.--A train was derailed on the Open Sound branch of the Canadian-Paciffc Railway, and a number of the passengers seriously injured…

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Hurled Over a Beidge. Dreadful Motoring Fatality. a Fall of 40Ft. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 7

A serious motor accident occurred between 8 and 9 p.m. on Wednesday at Lyndoch. A motor car, driven by Mr. Bert May, carrying his wife, his sister-in-law and his…

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Factory Burnt Down. Young Women Jump From Window. One Max Badly Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 8

A fire resulting in the destruction of Messrs. Graham Bros.' factory occurred at Camperdown yesterday, and was attended by some stirring incidents…

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Accidentally Shot His Brother

Evening News · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 7

NARRANDERA, Friday.—A lad named James Fealey. while parrot shooting, accidentally shot his younger brother George. at close range. The bullet struck a rib on the boy's left side,…

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Submarine Disaster. Gallant Efforts at Rescue. Cause of the Accident. Kiel, Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 7

The submarine U3, which sunk in Heikendorf Bay, has been raised. Two officers and a coxswain, who gallantly remained in the vessel until the others were safe, were…

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A Fishing Accident

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 3

A fishing party of four, beaded by Captain. Kendall, met with disaster of Forster yesterday. They set out in the motor launch Mabel, but when crossing the bar the engines,…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Missing Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 8

The Pyrnront police were informed yesterday afternoon that a boy named Robert M'Lennon (6) had been missing from 188 John-street, Pyrmont, since 9 a.m. The boy, whose parents…

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Motoring Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 6

A serious accident occurred on Wednesday, at Lyndoch, South Australia. A motor-car, driven by Mr. Bert May, carrying his wife, his sister-in-law, and his…

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Ice Accident Nine Boys Drowned

The World's News · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 3

The picture on this page graphically illustrates a serious accident which occurred at Bihar, Hungary, last month. Ten boys, the oldest of whom was not more than ten years of…

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A Sailor Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 14

ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Murat Bay, on the West Coast, stating that two sailors attempted to come ashore on planks from the…

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Runaway Accident. Two Boys Injured

The Sun · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 10

This afternoon Arthur Moran, aged 9, living in Philip-street, Alexandria, and Archie M'Gregor, also 9 years of age, and living in Raglan-street, Alexandria, were sitting on…

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Railway Collision. at Sydney Station. Engines Crash Into Standing Train. Brave Fireman Injured. Heroic Pointsman

Evening News · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 8

A smash occurred at the Central Railway Station early this morning, when two runaway engines coupled together crashed into a set of 10 standing empty carriages Owing to the…

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Worst Aid to the Injured. Things to Avoid When Accidents Happen

Evening News · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 12

Everyone competent in Judge is agreed that the work of our ambulance brigades is of great utility in the cause of suffering humanity. Outside the circle of the "first aid" students…

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Taxi-cab and Van Collision. Driver Committed for Triai

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 8

The adjourned inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Loonard Pack wood a motor driver which took place at the Royal prince Alfred Hospital on December 3…

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The Cook's River Collision. Taxi Driver Committed for Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 22

The City Coroner yesterday afternoon resumed the request into the circumstanced attending the death of Leonard Packwood, a motor driver, at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on December 9 from…

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Train Dashes Into Cow. Four Killed, Thirty Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 13

VANCOUVER, Friday.--The Chicago Rock Island train dashed into a cow at Fort Smith. Arkansas, the train being derailed. Four persons were killed, and 30 injured…

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Railway Smash. Carriage Telescoped at Central Station. Fireman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 13

Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning a serious railway smash occurred at the Central Station. Two locomotives, which had hauled a coal train into the yard, became unmanageable, and…

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Railway Smash. a Fireman Injured. Cars Wrecked and Engine Damaged

The Sun · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 1

The wreckage of a car piled up near the Sydney goods shed in the railway yard at the Central Station is the outward and visible sigh of a collision which occurred at…

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Railway Collision. Exciting Ride on a Runaway Engine. Fireman's Graphic Story. (Continued from page. 8)

Evening News · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 3

The two outstanding of the collison at the Central Railway Station early this morning between the two runaway engines and a number of stationary carriages, which resulted…

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