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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

4,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 228

Aviation. Two Men Drowned. Fell Into the Thames. London, Monday Night

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 4

Another fatal aviation accident occurred today at Greenhithe. Messrs. Macdonald and Ingles were testing a new hiplane, when the engine suddenly…

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Boy Who Was Not Drowned Divers Search for Body. Excitement at Cook's River

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 6

Hundreds of people swarmed along the banks of Cook's River canal last night while divers endeavored to recover from the gloomy depths of water the body of a boy,…

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Bolt in the City. Excitement in George-street. Driver and Horse Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 6

An exciting runaway occurred in George-street, near Valentine-street, on Monday night, and as a result the driver required treatment at Sydney Hospital, the hours was injured, and…

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Fog Like Pea-soup. Express and Slow Train Collide. Many Killed and Injured. Steamer's Long Trip. Fifty Days to Cross Atlantic. London, Monday, 8.45 p.m

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 9

The weather in Great Britain. gets worse Instead of better. Yesterday London had its taste of the visitation, and was shrouded in the densest fog…

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Gouldburn-street Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 12

At 11.55 yesterday Michael Tehan, 65, labourer, fell from a lorry in Goulburn-street, in front of the Trades Hall. At Sydney Hospital Dr. Tansey received [?]im from the Civil…

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Pea Rifle Accident. Tenterfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 12

A boy named William Dorrington was accidentally shot whilst rabbit-shooting. The bullet stuck in a pea-rifle. Another boy was trying to remove it, when the charge went…

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Mining Accident. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 12

Wm. Davis the second man injured in the South mine explosion on Friday night, died in the hospital on Saturday night from shock. This makes the fourth mining fatality this year…

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Accidentally Shot. Muswellbrook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 12

A dairyman named Field was accidentlly shot by his son on Saturday nigth, death being instantan[?]ous…

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Deaths of Babies. Scalded Accidentally

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 4

On January 7, at about 7.30 p.m., Mrs. Amolla Davie was washing her 14 months'-old grandson, Cecil L[?]slie King at Alexandrin, and, in hei momentary absence, the little fellow tilted…

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Accident at Darling Harbor

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 1

Michael Byrne. 30, a seaman aboard the steamer Queen Margaret, was knocked down by a cab at Darling Harbor last night. The Civil, Ambulance took him to the Sydney…

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Wounded by a Wave. Curious Accident at Manly

The Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 7

A man, Fritz Deuker, living at Whistler- street, Manly, met with a curious accident while walking along the water's edge on the Ocean Beach, Manly, this afternoon…

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Shooting Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 11

TENTERFIELD, Monday.-- Yesterday three lads, named Willie Dorrington, aged 13, Stanley Vesper, aged 17, and Edward O'Keefe, went shooting with a small bore rifle…

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Fatalities and Accidents. an Unidentified Corpse

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 8

The police believe that they are a step nearer identification of the man who on the morning of January 7, was found floating in Darling Harbor by William Penson, a deck-hand on the…

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A Mining Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 10

BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday. -- Shortly before midnight, W, Davis, mate of William James Marshall, who was killed at the South mine on Friday night, as the result of an explosion, died…

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Little Girl Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 10

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday. -- Margaret Adele Kilkelly, aged six, was drowned in the Towrodgi Crook yesterday afternoon, whilst playing in the water with other children. The…

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Two Brothers Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 2

At Charleville, Q., on Saturday, Eustace and Adrian Connolly, aged 13 and 11 years respectively, sons of Sergeant Connolly, were accidentally drowned in the Warrego…

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Three Boys Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 2

What appears to have been an accident, followed by a brave attempt at rescue, resulted in the death of three boys by drowning in Gardner's Creek, Glen, Iris on…

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Minister Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Rev. M. Aldridge, Presbyterian minister, of Melbourne, while being driven from Moe to Trafalgar (Gippsland), was thrown out of his trap. He received a…

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Casualties. White Bay Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 11

The Civil Ambulance was called to a jetty at White Bay, at which the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Yankalilla was berthed, and removed a fireman named…

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The Inveric—cycle Collision

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 4

To-day a preliminary inquiry is to be held concerning the steamer Inveric bumping the Cycle in Newcastle Harbour on Monday afternoon. A further…

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