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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Motor Smash at Moore Park. Rev. E. F. Waddy Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 5

A collision occurred on the Randwick-road, Moore Park, outside the Zoo, gates, this afternoon, between a motor car and a motor cycle, and the Rev. E. F. Waddy was seriously injured…

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Drowned in the Surf. Tragedy at Curl Curl the Life-line Came Too Late

The Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 5

A surf bathing fatality occurred this afternoon at Curl Curl, which is three miles from Manly, information was received by Mr. Randell, of Freshwater, from a student…

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Cooma Driving Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams, living at Jindabyac-road Cooma, N.S.W., was driving with her four children in a sulky about five miles…

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Sulky Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 10

At about 11.30 a.m. yesterday Levina Hicks, 67, of Punchbowl-road, Enfield, was taken by the Civil Ambulance to the Prince Alfred Hospital, and there admitted, suffering from…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 8

DENILIQUIN, Monday.--The motor accident, which occurred at Barratta Bridge, 28 miles from Denillquin, last Friday morning, resulted in the death of Thomas Henry D[?]n in the…

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Fatalities and Accidents. an Unknown Man

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 8

The body of a man discovered floating in the vicinity of Grafton Wharf on Sunday night has not yet been identified. The only clue is a small scrap of paper found in his vest pocket,…

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Stranger Than Fiction. the Yarra Boating Accident. After Thirty Years

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.--A remarkable coincidence in connection with Saturday's Yarra boating accident consists in the fact that two sisters named M'Williams were drowned within…

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Casualties. Middle Harbour Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 14

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Acting City Coroner, Mr. Hawkins, in the case of the death of Norman Brindley Taylor, 21, who was drowned in Middle…

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Fatal Riding Collision

Globe · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 3

Erie Horan, aged 18, son of the station-master at Gingin, Midland Railway, W.A., while out with a holiday riding party, collided with another horseman, and the pony fell. Horan's neck…

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Little Boy Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 14

MARYBOROUGH (Q.), Tuesday.--Thomas Bird (8), while fishing to-day from a wharf. fell into the river and was drowned…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Cricketer Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 14

Rev. E. F. Waddy, a master at King's School Parramatta, the well-known cricketer, while proceeding on his motor cycle, late yesterday afternoon to the cricket ground for practice…

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George's River Drowning. Bodies Recovered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 10

The Water Police station received a telephone message from Senior-Sergeans Wallace at Co[?] yesterday, to the effect that the three bodies of the young men drowned [?]…

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The Como Drowning. Bodies Identified

Evening News · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 11

The bodies of the victims of the drowning accident at Woronora River, Como, on New Year's Day were this morning identified by relatives as those of Edward Ostenfeld, 17, son of…

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Jockey Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 14
Also in Globe

WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--An unfortunate accident happened at Bishopsbridge yesterday during the holding of an unregistered race meeting. Myles Skinner, a well-known local…

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Arnst Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 16

General sympathy was expressed with "Dick" Arnst when in became known that he had met with severe injuries at Manly on Boxing morning. It is just like Arnst, though, to make…

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Bathing Fatality. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 13

Another bathing fatality has to be added to the holiday death-roll. Myrtle Hamilton, aged 22 years, was drowned at Port Melbourne to-day, and her sister narrowly [?]caped a…

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The Fatality at Como

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 12

Whilst the Christmas holidays have, fortunately, passed without recording any of those catastrophes on the large scale which some past years have witnessed, there…

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Drowned in Middle Harbor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 14
Also in Evening News

The Acting-Coroner held an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of Norman Brindley Taylor (21), who was drowned in Middle Harbor on Boxing Day…

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