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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

2,061 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 104

Nowra Clergyman's Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 12

The Rev. T. Jamieson-Williams had his arm fractured while endeavoring to start his motor car. Some few months ago he had the same arm fractured by the same…

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Accident at Liverpool

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 3

Private John Townsend, 51, of the Army Service Corps, Liverpool, was driving an 1S-inch gun across Holdsworthy bridge to load it at Liverpool station, when the…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before Mr. Justice. Pring, Mr. Justice Sly, and Mr. Justice Ferguson.) Injured Hospital Patient. MacCormick and others v Walker, and Walker v MacCormick and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 8

An action was tried, before Sir Wm. Cullen, C.J., and a jury, last term, in which Fanny Walker, wife of Francis Walker, of Cremorne, sued Sir Alexander MacCormlck, Edward…

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Two Lives Lost Country Drowning Accidents

Evening News · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 3

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Car and Cycle Collide. Two People Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 6

BATHURST, Wednesday.--A collision between a motor car and motor cycle occurred at the cross roads at Kelso shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon…

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A Coach Accident. Horses Drowned in Storm Waters

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

On Wednesday night last two valuable horses attached to a 'bus conveying three passengers from Nowra (N.S.W.) railway station, were…

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Attacked by Burglar. Artist Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

An exciting encounter between a housebreaker and Mr. Benjamin Edward Minas, a well-known Sydney artist, took place at the Cambridge Flats, at the corner of Bouker and…

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Thrown From a Horse. Shocking Fatality at Woodburn

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

A well-known resident of Swan Bay (N.S.W.), Sydney Durrington, axed twenty-eight years, was riding in company with two companions at…

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A Silo Fatality. a Laborer Falls Seventy Feet

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

At Parkes (N.S.W.) on Tuesday last, Charles Bufflier, an employee on the wheat silos at the local railway station, fell from the top of the silo to the…

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Misadventures Disastrous Railway Accident in Italy. Many Soldiers Killed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

While an Italian troop train was climbing a steep ascent, and bad readied a height of 13,000 feet, near Trieste, on Sunday, seven coaches,…

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Girl Shot Dead. Accident at Bathurst

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 6

BATHURST, Thursday.-- Fanny Elizabeth Howard (14), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Howard, of Hope Street, Bathurst, and a pupil of Bathurst High School, was accidentally shot…

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Cas Explosion Redfern House Damaged Two Persons Injured

Evening News · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 1

While David Lowe, [?] a [?] was attending to the gas…

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Fatal Pea Rifle Accident. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 13

Thomas C. W. Willman, aged 31, married, and carrying on a jewellery business in William-street, was formally charged at the Police Court this morning with the…

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Fatal Accident

The St George Call · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

While taking part last Saturday afternoon with other children in a welcome home to soldiers at Banksia, Elsie Gray Grossman, three and a half years…

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Bathurst Tragedy Verdict of Accidental Death BATHURST

The Sun · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 6

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the District Coroner (Mr. C. Jennings) at the inquiry held to-day concerning the death of Fanny…

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Serious Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 8

On Sunday afternoon a wheezy old motor contraption, which rattled worse than a hundred tin kettles, and decked out all over and bedizened with dozens of…

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Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 6

At Parramatta Hospital on the 21st inst Wm. Quigley (21) was treated for an injury to his ear caused through a fall on the footpath. Lily Thompson ([?]0), of…

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Sensational Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 6

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, the well-known residents and patriotic workers of Baulkham Hills, met with an alarming accident when driving down to their new…

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Returned Soldier Injured ALSTONVILLE

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 5

Mr. Fred Alnsworth a returned soldier, assistant Tick Inspector here recently, had a shoulder broken through the upsetting of a sulky last night…

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