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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

4,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 228

Scaffolding Collapses. Three Men Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 10

Three men were admitted to the Melbourne Lospital this mroning as the result of an accident which occureed at the Women's Hospital at Carlton. The patients' names…

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A Gas Explosion. Two Tradesmen's Eyes Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 7

Just after 2 p.m. yesterday a small gas cylinder exploded at the City Council electriclight works, Pyrmont-street, Pyrmont, Injuring the eyes of two tradosmen…

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Knocked Down by a Tram. Accident in Oxford-street

Evening News · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 8

John Vicars, a middle-aged man, should consider himself very fortunate that he was not killed by a tram in Oxford-street, City, this morning. As it is Vicars now Des in Sydney…

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Motor Accidents. Outcry in London. London, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 9

A motor omnibus killed a policeman yesterday while he was regulating the trafile in the city. The occurrence has aeccntuated the outcry…

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The Cage Accident. a 300 Feet Drop. Kalgoorlie (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 9

From later particulars obtained regarding the sensntlonal cage accident on the Golden Horseshoe, it appears that two cages got out of hand. One cage, containing two men, was…

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Quarry Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 10

Whhile working at Goodlet and Smith's Quarry in Surry Hills yesterday. David M'Donald, 50, a quarryman, of 55 Mariborough-street, Surry Hills, was injured by a…

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Colliery Accidents. a Welsh Prosecution. London, Thursday, 12.20 a.m

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 9

As a result of the fatal accidents that had occurred at a Welsh colliery several of the chief officials were summoned at Pontypridd for having failed to provide adequate…

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Fatal Cage Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 8

KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--On Tuesday night, John Harrington, one of the victims of the Horseshoe cage accident, died from the injuries received. He was 62 years of age. The…

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Fatal Pea Rifle Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 11

WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.--Owen Edward Sharkey, a young Englishman, 20 years of ago, who was seriously injured at Greta on Saturday evening last, through being shot with a…

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Two Brothers Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 4

There brothers, James (18), Charles (22), and Alfred (27) Cunningham, sons of a well-known farmer at Goombargana, Albury district, went to bathe…

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Motor and Tram Collision

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 8

A collision between a motor car and tram occurred in Parramatta-road. Leichhardt, near Crystal-street, this morning, about half-past eight…

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Pilgrims Overwhelmed. 350 People Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 10

SUAKIM, Wednesday Evening.--A caravan of Indian pilgrims at Elhomra, midway between Medina and Yambo, was overwhelmed at midnight by a sudden mountain flood, and 350…

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Three Tram Accidents. Two Men and a Woman Injured

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 8

Three tram accidents occurred in the city late last night and early this morning. The first was in Liverpool-street, near Nithsdale-street, at 10.15 p.m. yesterday. Joseph…

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Scaffolding Collapses. Three Men Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 7

Three men were admitted to the Melbourne [?]ospital this morning as the result of an accident which occurred at the Women's Hospital at Carlton. The patients' names…

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Sulky Accident

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 4

About 10 o'clock last night Mr. Alfred Bradshaw of Botany-road Alexandria was driving along King-street St. Peters with his wife. As he pulled to the right to allow a tram to pass…

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Oxford-street Tram Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 10

John Vicars, while avoiding one tramcar in Oxford-treet, near College-street, yesterday, was knocked down by another car approaching in the opposite direction. He was…

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Accident to Colonel Antill. Albury

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 11

Colonel Antill, of Sydney Commandant of the Albury Military School of Instruction, has been the victim of a peculiar accident. Whilst riding, his horse suddenly threw back…

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Fatalities and Accidents Found Dead in Camp

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 12

Early yesterday morning the body of a man, with a bullet wound in the head and a revolver by the side, was found in a lonely camp off the Redbank-road, near Westmead…

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Little Girl Drowned. Fatality at Balmain

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1913 · page 9

This morning a little girl, Dorothy Ann Edwards, aged nine years, was bathing with some other children at a small beach m Johnston's Bay, at the foot of Little…

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Quarry Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1913 · page 22

The death of Andrew Hanson, 72, a quarryewner, at the Royal North Shore Hospital on january 19, formed the subject of an inquiry at the City Coroner's Court yesterday,in…

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