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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

4,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 228

Boating Fatalities. Three Lives Lost. Pleasure-boat Swamped Near Fort Denison. Mother and Child Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 7

A drowning accident attended by most pathetic circumstances occurred shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon on Sydney Harbor, opposite Cremorne, when Beatrice Matilda…

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Serious Blasting Accident. Eyesight Probably Lost

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 6

George Ford, 26, a powder-monkey, living at Yorke-avenus, Five Dock, met with a serious accident, causing the probable loss of his eyesight, at the Government Workshops at Rhodes,…

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Shocking Accident Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 10

George Cunningham, a middle-aged man[?] was the victim of a shocking accident near Burraga on Saturday. It appears that C[?] ningham had a broken shaft forced through…

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Motor Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 10

Yesterday afternoon a motor car, driven by Ralph Gregory, of Paddington, knocked over Patrick Mullen, a night watchman, of Albien-street, Surry Hills, on the Long Bay-road…

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Legless Plaintiff. Claims £400 Damages. City Street Accident

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 7

Thomas Henry Hore, who had both his legs amputated at the. Prince Alfred Hospital twelve years, ago, was the plaintiff in an action brought in the District Court this…

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Destruction at Temora. Accident to Firemen

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 7

TEMORA, Sunday. -- Another destructive fire occurred in Main-street shortly after 5 o'clock this morning. It originated in Fullarton Bros.' grocery store, and the flames soon forced their…

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Fatalities and Accidents Killed by a Train

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 11

A shocking accident occurred at Lewisham a few minutes before 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, when Jerome Lucey, who was employed in the permanent branch of the…

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Boating Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 11

Reginald Newtown, 19, residing at Gerard-street, Alexandria, was drowned on Saturday in Hen and Chickens Bay, about half-way between Wharf-road, Concord, and Cabarita,…

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A Boy Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 11

GOULBURN, Monday.--Yesterday at Baw Baw Frederick Morton, 12 years, with others, went for a bathe, but got beyond his depth. A mate, Leslie Coggan, made a plucky attempt to rescue…

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Two Boys Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 5

Leslie Saunders, 17. of [?] a feed-boy, was working [?] Nall's works, in George-street [?] when he got his hands [?]…

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Drowned While Bathing. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 11

Frederick Merton, aged 12, was drowned while bathing at Baw Baw yesterday. Leslio Coggan, a companion, went to his rescue, but Merton struggled so much that Coggan had to…

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Jumped From Moving Train. Ex-squatter Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 4

Matthew Revan, [?] a retired country station owner, boarded a train at Sydney early this morning, and intended slighting at Kogarah, but on reaching that station the train ran…

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Queensland Railway Fatality. Inquiry Opened. Driver on Duty Is Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 6

TOOWOOMBA, Monday.--The magisterial inquiry into the death of the six men who were killed in the railway accident, a short distance from Murphy's Creek, on January 20, was…

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Railway Smash. One Man Killed; Eight Injured. Trucks Derailed. Melbourne

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 6

A fatal accident occurred at Yarra Junction this morning. A timber train was being divided when two of the trucks became detailed…

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Runaway Railway Truck. Smash on a Private Line. One Man Killed; Eight Injured. Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 7

A shocking railway accident, resulting in one workman being killed and eight injured, occurred on a privately-owned narrow gauge railway at Yarra Junction early this…

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Serious Burning Accident. Boiling Tar on a Man. Hay

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 7

A serious burning accident occurred at [?] Station, near [?] when an old district resident, John M'Leod, was seriously burnt about the face, neck and [?]…

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Fatal Riding Accident. Wentworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 11

A fatal accident happened at Para station by which a labourer named John Houston, 35, lost his life, Houston's body was discovered lying within 200 yards of the house,…

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Accident at Rhodes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 11

A man named George Ford, 56, living at Fort-avenue, Five Dock, was injured yesterday whilst engaged in blasting operations at the Government workshops, Rhodes. The charge…

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Boating Capsize. the Crew Safe. Accident Between the Heads

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 7

The mystery of the upturned 16ft. sailing boat, which was found at Bondi on Sunday evening, and picked up from a dangerous boiling sea by the brothers Doherty subsequently[?]…

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Fatalities and Accidents a Lascar's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 11

An inquest was held by the City Coroner yesterday concerning the death of Din Mahaman, a Lascar seaman, which took place on February 20, at the Sydney Hospital, from the effects of…

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