Found Drowned
On Saturday, 18th Dec, the body of William Woodward Holt, 67, a caretaker, who lately resided at Moon Avenue, Peakhurst, was found floating in George's…
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Granville Drowning Case A Little Boy's Death
The Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) held an inquest at the Parramatta Court on Dec. 23rd into the circumstances surrounding the death of Athol Edward…
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The Civil Ambulance experienced a busy time last night and this morning. Many of the calls, however, were not of a serious nature…
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Charles Parker, 11 years of age, was engaged in picking in a cherry orchard on the Bathurstroad. After filling a bucket he went with an elder brother to a shed to obtain other…
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About 8 o'clock last night Mr. H. F. Stickley, residing at 21 Robert-street, Ashfield, tell from a train at Petersham Station and had his right leg and right ear severed. He…
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While loading coal into a stage in the Central Railway yards last night John Tyler, a fuelman, aged 37, who lives in Prospect-street, Surry Hills,…
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Arthur Stanley Reld, aged 12 was drowned while bathing in Cook's River yesterday afternoon. The boy lived in Kensington-street,…
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Arthur Stanley Read, a boy of 12, was drowned before his brother's eyes at Hurlstone Park yesterday. The elder boy made repeated attempts to save him,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fighting Death Thrills on Express Train Driver Badly Injured Explosion in Smoke-box
One of the most thrilling accidents that have occurred for a long time on the railways happened on Friday night on the locomotive of the No. 3…
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Arthur Stanley Reid, aged 12, living in Kensington-street, Sydney, was drowned while swimming in Cook's River on Saturday afternoon. He was on a visit to his brother, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jockey Injured
George Gorie a jockey living in Botany-street Randwick was schooling a hu[?] at Randwick [?] the horse stumbied and tell Gorie was…
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Arthur Stanley Read (12) sank while swimming with his brother in Cook's River on Saturday, and was drowned. His brother saw him disappear and dived a number of times…
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An old man named Townsend, who Uvea in Mimosa street, Bexley, lost his balance during particularly strong gust of wind, while he was walking…
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Bernard Hunt (19), a ship's apprentice, struck his head while diving in the Pyrmont Baths on Saturday, and sustained concussion. He was taken to Sydney Hospital by the Civil…
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The body of Arthur W. Hampton, of Cessnock, one of the victims of the motor fatality at Raymond Terrace on Thursday afternoon, as the result of his car dashing off the punt,…
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The bodies of the three victims of the fatality [?]ed by a motor dashing off the punt at Raymond Terrace on Thursday have been recovered. That of…
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Struck by a sudden squall on Saturday afternoon, when about two miles out from Chelsea, a fishing boat capsized and precipitated its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boat Overturned in Squall Man Drowned Melbourne
The drowning of a man of the [?] the [?] of a total during a squall has been [?] to the p[?]…
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On Sunday morning at 7 o'clock Arthur Theodore Smith 14 was drowned in a [?] off the Lachian River, six [?] below Hill[?] He was unable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hundreds of Accidents Surfers' Daily Mishaps Fine Voluntary Work
Countries thousands of persons, [?]rns and old, of all chapes.[?] and station in life, formed o[?] slot procession to the [?]…
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