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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

1,802 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 91

Fatalities and Accidents. Knocked Down by Engine

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 January 1918 · page 6

TARANA, Saturday.--J. Delaney, while spragging an engine at Messrs. Hoskins's quarry on Friday, was knocked down and the flange of the wheel tore the flesh off his right log. He…

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Drowning Tragedies a Gallant Effort to Rescue Fails. a Young Man Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 4

While swimming in King River, below Linda (Vic), last week, a young man named Victor Lees, aged eighteen years, got into difficulties, and was drowned…

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Collision at Namibucca

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 9

The following telegram was received by the Navigation Department yesterday from the pilot at Nambucca Heads:- "Towing in Our Elsie sea caught tug; grounded…

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Drowned in a Lagoon. An Accident on a Queensland Station

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 4

A sad drowning accident occurred last week, resulting in the death of Ivan Conrad Shaw, aged fourteen years, the only son of Mm. Wllks, of…

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Motor Car Capsized Collision at Kogarah

The Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 3

A collision between two motor cars occurred in Rocky Point-road, near Regent-street, Kogarah, yesterday afternoon, when one of the cars was capsized and the other…

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Motor-car and Cycle. a Collision at Brooklyn

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 4

A motor-cycle and motor-car collided on Geelong-road, Brooklyn (Vic), on Sunday morning, and as a result a man named Clifford Sydney Hiddlestone,…

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General Wood Injured. New York

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 5

A Washington message announces that General Leonard Wood has been injured by an explosion in France…

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Coaster and Tug in Collision. Incident at the Nambucca River

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 3

According to a report received yesterday by the Department of Navigation from the pilot at Nambacca Heads some difficulty was experienced in towing the steamer Our Elsie…

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Strange Mishap at the Nambucca Heads. Our Elsie and Tug in Collision

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 2

The Superintendant of Navigation, Captain dimming, has received the following message from the pilot at Nambucca Heads:—…

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Fatalities & Accidents. Crushed by Railway Trucks

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 5

On Sunday morning a lad named Smith, living with his parents at Sixth Street, Clyde, was found on the railway line at Clyde marshalling yards in a serious condition. He stated that…

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Three Boys Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 1

Assidental death was the vardict of the Acting City Corner in the case of Gordon William [?] who was drowned while bathing at [?] on January 17. Similar…

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Fatalities & Accidents. Tram Conducted Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 8

Last night Richard Shailer, a tram conductor, living in Mill Hill Road, Waverley, fell from a moving tramcar at the Bridge Street tramway depot, and sustained a dislocated right thigh…

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Clyde Yards Fatality. Lad Crushed Between Trucks

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 3

A sad fatality occurred in the marshalling yards at Clyde early on Sunday morning, the victim being a lad named Clyde Alfred John Smith, aged 15 years…

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Two Persons Drowned. Would-be Rescuer Perishes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 7

ZEEHAN, Tuesday.--A double drowning fatality occurred at Strahan at 8 o'clock tonight. Alice James, a single woman (24), employed…

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Three Boys Drowned Grandfather Attempts Rescue Gallant Effort Fails

The Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 5

How a retired senior-sergeant of police. John Napoleon Oldfield, of Kogarah, battled against tho surf to save the life of his grandson, and failed, was told by him at the…

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Air Raid Victims 47 KILLED, 169 Injured London, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 5

It is officially stated that in last night's air raid 14 men, 17 women, and 16 children were killed, and 93 men, 59 women, and 17 children injured…

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Death Through Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Thomas. Hall, aged 74, by occupation a carpenter, but for many years a poultry farmer and fruitgrower in Sevillestreet, Orange Grove estate, Fairfield, died…

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Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 2

Different accidents were treated recently at Parramatta Hospital:—On the 25th (Friday), Mrs. Hawkesley, of Granville, sustained a fracture of the humerus in a…

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Dreadful Assault. Mother and Children Injured. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1918 · page 8

An attempt to kill a whole family appears to have been made at an early hour this morning in a little, ramshackle house situated in the bush midway between Nedlands and…

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Queensland's Trial Another Drowning at Stanwell Rockhampton's Danger Marlborough's Rain Record Brisbane, Thursday Afternoon

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1918 · page 5

Latest messages from Rockhampton indicate that the flood-waters have made a sensational rise, and have now reached the highest point of East-street…

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