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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Fell Down Lift Well the Accident at Grace Brothers. Woman's Terrible Injuries. Evidence at the Inquest

Evening News · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 9

The lift accident at Grace Brothers' store, at the Broadway, Glebe, on Christmas Eve. when a married woman named Isabella O'Connor. 23, who lived with her husband. Michael O'Connor,…

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Accident at Central Wharf

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 11

Yesterday, at 5 p.m., Patrick Barry, 30, a wharf labourer, of 114 Elswick-street, Leichhardt, fell a distance of 30 feet, on the steamer Barrier, at Central Wharf. He landed…

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Pea Rifle Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 10

WAGGA, Tuesday.--A married woman named Castles was last night admitted to the Wagga district hospital from Germanton; She was the victim of a pea rifle accident. The bullet…

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Fatal Vehicle Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 10

Joshua Laycock (64). living at Pittwater-road, North Ryde, was driving along Victoria-road, Gladesville, at noon yesterday, when the horse shied. Laycock was thrown out on to the…

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Fatal Street Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 10

A finding of accidental death was recorded at an inquest held yesterday into the death of Colin Bennett (3½), who died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on December 31, from a…

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Fatalities and Accidents Slipped on the Pavement

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 10

Velma Jacobson (19) slipped on the pavement in Elizabeth-street on Monday night. As she was unable to get up, the Civil Ambulance was called, and took her to the Sydney Hospital,…

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Fortunes Favor the Careless. Great Discoveries Due to Happy Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 1

it is vepetitive history that many a person who has spent, hours upon hours combining and recombining the factors of his problem, has had the solution burst upon…

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Archdeacon Injured. Collision with Motor Car. Drives Severely Dealt With. West Maitland

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 5

Roy Bartrop was charged with negigently driving a motor car, at the West Maithand Police Court this morning, and was fined £5, his driver's license suspended, and he was…

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Lift Fatality. Coroner's Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 6

The lift accident at Grace Brothers'. Broadway, on Christmas Eve, when Isabella O'Connor, 29, a married woman, residing at Sophia-street, Surry Hills, fell into the liff…

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Injured Randwick Boxer

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 5

William Fitzgerald the young boxer who was injured during a contest in the Olympia Athletic Club's boxing tourney, at Newtown, on Monday night, is still in Prince ALfred…

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Tasmania Mine Fatality. Launceston

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 12

The inquiry into the deaths of the miners John Kirby and Thomas J. Reid, who Were killed in the Tasmania mine on January 2, was concluded to-day. The Jury returned a…

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Boy Drowned at Gore Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 12

The City Coroner yesterday found that Percy Millen, 13, was drowned accidentally in a waterhole at Gore Hill on January 2. The Coroner added a rider to the effect that the…

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The Cronulla Fatality. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 8

Sir,--May I be permitted, through your columns, to correct an erroneous impression that is prevailing with regard to the actual spot where the recent fatalities took place and which is likely to do harm to Cronulla…

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Drowned in a Dam. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 12

J. G. Brazell, an English Immigrant, workins for George Guest at Toodyay, was drowned in a dam while bathing on Sunday. Brazell's wife and family only recently…

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Runaway Coach. Man Seriously Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 7

BATHURST, Wednesday.--The horses attached to the Sunny Corner mall conch bolted down Green Swamp-hill yesterday evening, and brought the coach into violent collision with a…

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A Willoughby Waterhole a Boy Drowned. the Coroner's Remarks

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 8

The Coroner recorded, a finding of accidental death by drowning at an inquest held yesterday into the death of Percy Miller, who was drowned in a brick pit at Gore-hill on Friday…

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Telegraph Operator Drowned. Suddenly Sank While Bathing. Taree

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 6

Arthur Sadler, son of Mr. C. R. Sadler, postmaster at Tares, was Crowned yesterday afternoon. He was bathing with two postal officials at…

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Explosion in a Mine. Man Dreadfully Injured. Kalgoorlie (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 10

James McNeil, a machine man, was terribly injured at Ivanhoe mine early on Tuesday morning. It is impossible to say precisely how the accident happened. McNeil was…

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Perils of the Surf. the Apparently Drowned. Methods of Resuscitation. a Glance at History

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 12

The first recorded cases of [?] the apparently drowned are mentioned in the notes to "Derham's Physico Theology" as having occurred at Troningholm and oxford about the…

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Drowned in the Surf Cronulla Trageoy. How the Loudens Were Carried Out. Story Told at Inquest

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 7

The story at the surf tragedy at Cronulla was told at the City Coronar's Court this morning when the Coroner held an inquest concerning deaths of three victima,…

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