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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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The Toll of the Iron Horse Nearly 5000 Accidents a Year in this State. A Grim Average Constantly Growing

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 April 1913 · page 5

The tax-payer who opens his paper in the morning and reads, "Death or a shunter," and takes in the type below the heading, does not think much more about the matter. He may…

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Foolish Flowers As a Critic of Consumption Cure. Friedmann's Serum Condemned By Puny Paint-Wallopper Politician And Accidental Asinine Administrator

Truth · Sunday 20 April 1913 · page 5

A paint-plasher and puny politician posing as a caustic critic and condemner of an alleged great discovery in medical science is the latest spectacle offered to the…

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Young Man's Leg Out Off. Accident to Promising Athlete. ALBURY

The Sun · Sunday 20 April 1913 · page 1

A serious shunting accident occurred at Wodonga railway station yards this morning, when a young man, Thomas Kelly, had his left leg frightfully crushed…

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Motor-car Accident. Narrow Escape of Occupants. ADELAIDE

The Sun · Sunday 20 April 1913 · page 5

Six occupants of a motor car had a narrow escape from death while driving through the hills 20 miles out of Adelaide. Application of the brakes caused the car to swerve…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 11

Two brothers, Norman and Stanley Turner, who reside in West-street, Balgowlah, on Saturday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, observed the body of a man floating in the water in Burnt…

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Farm Laborer Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 11

KIAMA, Sunday.--A farm laborer, Bernard Johnston, a recent arrival from England, was drowned this morning in a waterhole at Wright's Creek, about a mile from Kiama…

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Found Drowned. Kiama

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 13

A man named Bernard Johnston, employed as a farm labourer on a farm at Longbrush, about 1½ mile from Kiama, was found drowned this morning in Wright's Creek…

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Casualties. Motor Cyclist Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 13

H. J. Williams, 28, living at Leneva, Yasmar-avenue, Haberfield, had a narrow escape from being killed by a city-bound tram on Parramatta-road, Camperdown, last week,…

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Over the Bridge. Terrible Motoring Accident. Three Persons Drowned. Paris, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 8

A terrible motoring accident occurred to-day a one of the bridges crossing the [?]which three lives were lost. While a car was crossing the bridge at a…

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Chatswood Fatality. Three Men in a Sulky

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 10

Three men—Rupert Bullivant, 20; George Bullivant, 22; and James King, of Little Walker-street, North Sydney—were out driving in a sulky yesterday afternoon. In…

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Sulky Overturns. One Man Killed; Two Injured

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 4

A serious accident occurred in Thomas-street, near Gordon-road, Chatswood, on Sunday afternoon. Rupert Bullivant, 20, who lived in Little Walker-street, North Sydney, being…

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Panama Canal Explosion. Many Killed or Injured. New York

The Sun · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 1

From fifteen to twenty men are reported to have been either killed or wounded through the explosion of 12 tons of dynamite at the Panama Canal works…

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A Bathetic Sequel. Man's Foot Amputated. His Mother Badly Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 6

ALBURY, Sunday.--Thomas Kelly (20), who arrived at Wodonga railway trucking yards with a cattle train from Gippsland yesterday morning, had his left leg crushed to pulp by a…

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Man's Leg Cut Off. Mother Injured by Motor- Car. Albury

The Sun · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 8

There was an unfortunate incident in connection with the accident to the young Victorian athlete, Thomas Kelly, who lost a leg as the result of a shunting accident at…

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Perils of the Air. Passenger Incinerated. Pilot Seriously Injured. Rome, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 8

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Porter Killed. Railway Gets Another Victim. Shocking Accident at Strathfield

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred at Starathfield Railway Station, at [?]to Sunday evening, a railway [?] William Stanley Watts, 21, being out to pieces by a…

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Fell in a Fight. Wharf Laborer Killed. Blow Struck in Self Defence Verdict of Accidental Death

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 5

The City Coroner's Court was crowded this morning when Mr. H. S. Hawkins held an inquest concerning the death of James Lansdowne, 22, a wharf laborer, which occurred at…

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Fatal Accident at Coogee Man Killed by Falling Timber

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 5

An extraordinary accident happened at Coogee this morning. In which a man lost his life. An old house to Belmore-road, next to Forley's store, is being pulled down, that the land…

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Shunting Accident. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 13

A serious shunting accident occurred at Wodonga Railway Station yards early this morning, when a young man named Thomas Kelly had his left leg frightfully crushed…

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Football Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 13

While playing Rugby football on the Drummoyne Oval on Saturday afternoon, Bernard Therring, 23, a coal-lumper, of Lower Fort-street, city, sustained a fractured right leg…

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