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Accidents, 1911

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Bathing Fatality. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

Roy Tipping, aged 29, engaged in [?] classing at Goonoowigall woolscour, was missing on Saturday morning when work was commenced. A search was made, and his body…

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Bathing Fatality. Penrith

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

Miss Griffith, a Sydney visitor went into the river at Mulgoa this morning to bathe and was drowned. The body has not yet been recovered. The deceased was 25 years of age…

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Drowned in the Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

A rowing-boat containing two men was overturned while rounding Dawes Point yesterday morning, and one of the occupants, Thomas Kennet, a sailor, was drowned. The other,…

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Injured Cricketers. Llewellyn and Hordern

The Sun · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

Llewellyn and Hordern each had a finger injured in the fourth test match in Melbourne. Llewellyn is still suffering from his and it will prevent him playing in to-morrow's match…

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Orontes Collision. Preliminary Inquiry Held. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 10

A special meeting of the Marine Board was held on Monday afternoon, in consequence of the collision between R.M.S. Orontes and the yacht Thelma, by which W. B. Townley lost…

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Found Drowned. Body Not Identified. Launceston

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 10

The body of a man, with sea boots on, was discovered on the beach at Cape Barren three weeks ago. At the inquest no evidence of identification was available, and a verdict of…

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Train Catches Fire. Seven Persons Killed. Thirty-two Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A train travelling near Perm, on the slopes of the Ural .Mountains in Russia, caught fire. Seven persons were killed and 32 received…

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Peculiar Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 10

A verdict of misadventure was returned at the inquest on the death of Alice Power, who was killed by a boulder crashing down the hillside into a Manawatu railway…

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Driving Accident. Booyong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

Mr. Burns was driving in a sulky when the horse bolted, and capsized the sulky over a bank breaking both shafts. Mr. Burns was badly cut and bruised…

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A Surfing Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

Two bathers who were surfing at Bondi on Tuesday evening had a collision, and as a result of the impact Mr. Stanger, of Bondiroad, had to seek medical attention. It seems…

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Fatal Driving Accident. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

A child about 11 weeks old was fatally injured on the road between Stephen's Creek and Broken Hill on Sunday night. A trap driven by Mr. Chas. H. Jones, butcher, and…

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Serious Driving Accident. Barraba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

An old resident of Hawkin's Creek, Mr. Donald M'Leod, met with a serious accident whilst returning home on Saturday. A motor car frightened his horse, which ran up a…

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A Chapter of Accidents. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

A chapter of accidents, two proving fatal, are reported from Albany. Claude Pember, aged 25, who recently selected land with his father at Denmark, was killed during Friday…

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Fall Down a Hold. Accident on the Palermo

The Sun · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 6

The accident which occurred on board the steamer Palermo at Pyrmont on the 13th instant, in which one man was killed and another injured, was investigated at the…

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Accidents to Miners. Condition of the Relief Fund. Some Proposed Amendments

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 4

The Minister for Mines states,that in the homing session of Parliament, he intends to consolidate the three Acts relating to the miners' accidents relief fund, and to embody…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Country Visitor Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1911 · page 8

James O'Keefe (58), supposed to be a visitor from Wyalong, died at Sydney Hospital yesterday, as the result of a fall oarller in the day. He went to an oyster-saloon, in Liverpool-street…

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Several Drowning Cases

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 6

A young man named Roy Tipping, aged twenty, went for a swim in a dam near lnverell, N.S.W., on Friday night last, and next morning his dead body…

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Fatalities and Accidents. the Palermo Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 8

At the Coroner's Court yesterday, Mr. Hawkins further inquired into the circumstances of the death of David Mannix, whari-laborer, late of Gloucester-street, City, who was killed on…

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Opera House Manager Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.). Thursday.--Mr. Alexander Forbes Orr, manager of the Opera House, Christchurch, was drowned to-day while canocing in the river Avon…

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Rabbiter Seriously Injured

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 7

ORANGE, Friday.—Richard Thompson, rabbits was found living in an unconscious state at the Orange Saleyards with severe injuries to the head [?] is supported [?] Thompson had…

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