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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

4,041 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 203

Crane Breaks Down. Work Seriously Dislocated. Accident at Port Waratah Works. Newcastle

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 5

News of a serious accident at the Broken Hill Proprictary's Steel Works at Port Waratah reached the city this morning. While lifting a case of maohinery from the…

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Killed by Tram. the Eddy Avenue Accident. Coroner's Strong Comments. Inexperienced Conductors

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 4

A team accident which occurred at Edd, Avenue near the Central Railway Station, last Saturday week, and resulted in the south of Henry Turner, 24, a man of independent means,…

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Accident to a Mayor. Moree

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

The Mayor (Alderman Delander), is confined to bed with three broken ribs. He fell off some steps while on a Tislt to Inverell…

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Shooting Accident. Cessnock

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

Arthur Craft, a miner, while shooting on Tuesday evening, tripped and fell. The gun exploded, blowing the fingers and the back off one of his hands. The hand was amputated…

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Two Pedestrians Hurt. Accidents at Central-square

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 6

Two accidents occurred at Central square last night. Stella Mitchell, aged 22, of Kiora. Sheffield street. Aulburn, was knocked down by a motor- van. A wheel of the vehicle…

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Lift Accident. Woman's Terrible Death

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 5

An Inquest was opened at the Coroner's Court yesterday concerning the death of Isabella O'Connor (29), who died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on December 28 from injuries…

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Accident at Cockatoo Dock

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 11

A boilermaker named Alfred Roderick (28), while working on the top staging of the new cruiser Brisbane in Cockatoo Dock yesterday, missed his footing and fell to the ground. He…

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Fatalities and Accidents a Risky Jump

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 11

Patrick Barry (30), a wharf laborer employed on the Ballarat, lying at Miller's Point, attempted to jump from the dock of that boat to the rigging of the collier Beulah, which was lying…

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Accidentally Poisoned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 8

HOBART, Wednesday.--Emily Stella Lucas (4) of Baker's Creek, near Huonville, died through accidentally taking poison…

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Newcastle Railway Sick and Accident Club

Co-operator · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 5

The annual meeting of the Newcastle Railway Sick and Accident Club, was held on Monday last, 22nd in the Hamilton…

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The Cronulla Fatality

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 3

At the Coroner's Court yesterday an enquiry was held concerning the deaths of Margaret Louden, Daphne Louden, and…

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Drowned While Bathing

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 12

TAREE, Thursday.--At the Municipal baths, Shallow Island, yesterday, Arthur C. Sadler, 22, son of Mr. C. Sadler, postmaster, was drowned, Some six or eight young follows were bathing,…

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Drowned in a Tank

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 3

A young man named Fitzsimmons, a share-farmer on Wollongough station, Ungarie, was accidentally drowned in a tank on the station, owing to…

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The Injured Boxer

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 6

William Fitzge[?] the boxer who was injured during a contest in the Olympia Athletic Club's boxing tourney at Newtown last Monday, is still in Prince Alfred Hospital, suffering from…

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Coal Lumper Injured

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 2

While assisting to load coal into the cargo steamer Clan Grant at Brown's whart Woolloomooloo Bay, this morning, Thomas Garley, in a coal lumber, slipped and felt left into…

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Telegraph Operator Drowned. Taree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 12

A drowning case occurred at the municipal baths, Taree, this afternoon. A. C. Sadler, aged 22, relieving telegraph operator, son of the local postmaster, In company with two…

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Two Men Drowned. Brave Fisherman. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 9

The magisterial inquiry was held to-day into the circumstances of the drowning at Aliena Bay, on the evening of December 31, of two men, Henry Fraser Tatlow, and Samuel…

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Motor Fatality. Pastoralist Charged with Manslaugter. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 9

As the result of the fatality whichh occurred on the Sydney road on December 20, when Gordon Campbell Murch, 19, wool-classer, of Ascotvale, was knocked off a blcycle by a…

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Fate of the Dalgonar. Well-known Shipmaster Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 9

The loss of the ship Dalgonar, reported in yesterday's cable news, removes from the British registry a well-known Australian trader. The Dalgonar was a frequent visitor to Sydney…

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Racing Stable Ablaze. Valuable Horses Killed' and Injured

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 3

Two racehorses were killed and four injured owing to a fire that broke out on Monday at the Ellerslie racing stables, Auckland, N.Z., where several…

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