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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

4,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 228

Fatal Buggy Accident. Gosford

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 11

[?] Jaques, aged 21, who met with a buggy accident, died without regaining consclouness. Deceased was a son of Mr. G. H. Jaques, a member of one of the oldest resident settlers…

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Fatalities and Accidents Bricklayer's Fall

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 13

About 7.30 a.m. yesterday a bricklayer named Frank M'Vally (35), living at Bray-street, Erskineville, fell a distance of 15ft from a plank at Labor Papers; Ltd., building in…

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Miners' Accident Relief. Increased Demands on Fund. Total of 77 Deaths and 6211 Disablements

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 11

The annual report,of the Miners' Accident Relief Board was made available yesterday. The number of mines subject to the provisions of the Act during the year was 192, and at…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

Evening News · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 4

On Sunday last as a party or picnickers were proceeding up the George's River, in a motor boat, the boat bumped into some submerged object, and Cecil White, one of those on board…

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A Seaman Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 10

Dan Mohamendal, 30, an Indian seaman, fell 30ft down the hatchway of the steamer Kandenfels, at Woolloomooloo, yesterday. He was taken by the Civil Ambulance to the…

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Fatal Collision. Manslaughter Charge Fails. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 10

On the evening of December 5 a motor cycle, ridden by Percival Norman Barton, and a sulky, in charge of a youth named John Jarvis, collided in South Melbourne, with the…

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Fatal Pea-rifle Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 11

YOUNG, Wednesday.--A young man, Robert Henry Crockett, a resident of Marengo, met with a fatal gun accident at Marengo Flats. It appears that deceased placed a loaded…

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Fatalities and Accidents Electric Linesman's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 11

The City Coroner held an inquiry yesterday into the cause of the death at Prince Alfred Hospital, of Albert John Fra[?]klin (25), an electric linesman, whose skull was fractured…

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Fatalities and Accidents Motor-sulky Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 12

A plucky act was witnessed in Pitt-street on Wednesday night, Mr. Harold Ferguson, of Darlinghurst, jumping on to an empty sulky and reining in a horse which was proceeding at a…

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Non-swimmer Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 12

NARRANDERA, Thursday.--Thomas Barnett (24), a recent arrival from Ireland, was drowned at Colinroobie, 24 miles from Narrandera, yesterday. Barnett who was employed by Mr…

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Immigrant Drowned. Barellan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 10

Tom Barrett, an Irish Immigrant, six months out, was drowned while bathing in a dam. His companions were unable to render assistance, being unable to swim…

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Pea-rifle Fatality. Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 10

Robert Henry Crockett was killed at Marengo Flats through the accidental explosion of a pea-rifle…

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Ambulance Calls. a Jockey Injured

Evening News · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 4

A Jockey named Leslie Pauntin while exercising an unnamed colt for the trainer. Frank M'Grath, at Randwick yesterday, was thrown. He fa[?]ed to get one of his feet clear of the…

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Rifleman Shot. Peculiar Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 10

A well-known rifleman of the Netherby team named L. Chandler was accidentally shot at Baker yesterday by C. Dicker. Chandler and Dicker were practising for a rifle match in a…

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Fatal Riding Accident. Camden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 10

Miss Annie M'Cormack, daughter of Mr. James W. M'Cormack of Orangeville, on the Picton to The Oaks road, on Tuesday evening was riding a rather spirited young horse…

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Struck a Rock. Accident to the Brundah. Inquiry by the Marine Court

The Sun · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 7

An inquiry into the striking of a rock off Sugarloaf Point on January 21 by the North Coast Co.'s steamer Brundah, while on a voyage from Sydney to Richmond River, was…

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Three Drowned in Boating Fatality. Tragic End to Pleasure Trip. Vessel Capsized

Globe · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 3

A diligent search was made last week for the bodies of the men lost as a result of a boating accident at Port Wakefield (S.A). Four men, Messrs. Green. Pennifold (whose body has been…

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Fell Overboard. Accident on Parramatta River. Young Man Drowned

Evening News · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 9

A boating accident, which was attended with fatal results, occurred in Hen and Chicken Bay, on the Parramata River, near Caharita, this afternoon…

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Undertaker's Driver Injured

Evening News · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 11

William Muns, 58, employed as a driver for coffill and Company, undertakers was found in a lane at the rear of the firm's stables this morning seriously injured. The Civil…

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Motor Car Fatality. London

The Sun · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 8

An engineer named Stubbs, who was tried in Manchester yesterday for the manslaughter of a woman whom be ran over and killed' while driving a motor-car, was found guilty…

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