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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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

Runaway Trucks Jump Over Embankment Driver Injured Sensation on Blue Mountains

Evening News · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 3

A goods train, known as No. [?] which left the Clyde [?] about 10[?] last night for the west got as far as Valley Heights, on the blue Mountains, at [?] this…

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Actress's Escape. Miss Polini in Motor Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 7

Miss Emelie Polini, the well-known actress, had a remarkable escape while motoring from Mona Vale to Palm Beach yesterday afternoon with her husband. Lieutenant Hal…

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Goods Train Derailed Accident at Valley Heights Trucks Over Embankment

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 5

While a goods train of six trucks containing coal, and a brake-van, which had come from Clyde, was being shunted at Valley Heights (Blue Mountains)…

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Supposed Drowning Little Boy Missing

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

Three boys have told the Darling-hurst police that yesterday afternoon they left William Compton, aged 7, of Barcom-avenue, Darlinghurst, with…

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Seven Trucks Derailed. Accident at Valley Heights a Driver Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 5

During shunting operations at Valley Heights, at about 2.30 yesterday, six trucks, loaded with coal, and a brake-van, belonging to a goods train which came from Clyde,…

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Railway Accidents Man Falls Under a Train and Loses Both Legs. Fatality at Seymour

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 4

On Friday last, while seeing a crippled brother off to Melbourne (Vic), where he was to undergo an operation, Stephen Young, a lorry…

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Fight at Coal Mine. Attack on Loyalists. Several Men Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 4

The differences between loyalist workers and unionists at Richmond-Main coalmine, in the Kurri Kurri district, led to a serious disturbance yesterday morning…

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Knocked Down by a Truck. Shunter injured at Darling Island

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 4

A shunter named Herbert Dunbridge, living at Paddington (Sydney), was engaged shunting at Darling Island, on Saturday last, when a railway…

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300 Naval Men Drowned Appalling Tragedy at Stornoway Harbor Mouth. Wrecked in Sight of Home

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 4

A terrible disaster, by which about 300 men belonging to the Royal Navy lost their lives, occurred at Stornoway in the Western Hebrides, in the early…

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Farm First Aid How to Apply Homely Remedies in Sudden Emergency. Accidents and Ailments

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 8

Once when visiting a bush home Aunt Merrythought saw, hanging conspicuously in the kitchen, a large card, on which many cuttings had been…

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A Peculiar Accident. Man Killed by a Rolling Log

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 4

An accident of a peculiar nature occurred on Friday morning last at Narrabeen (Sydney), by which a man named James Davidson, aged…

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Railway Accident. Goods Train Derailed at Valley

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 4

A goods tram of six trucks, containing coal, and a brake van, was being shunted at Valley Heights, Blue Mountains (N.S.W.), early on Monday…

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Shocking Accident on Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 9

A shocking accident occurred yesterday on board the steamship Angelo, a Chillan vessel lying at Woolwich Dock. Shortly after noon James Mackie, 37, a…

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Little Boy Drowned

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 5

This morning, the Water Police found the body of William Compton aged 7, of Barcom-avenue, Darlinghurst floating in the water near the…

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Sierra's Narrow Escape Collision with Enemy Submarine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 8

The mail steamer Sierra, well known here in the San Francisco mail service, under the Oceanic S.S. Company's flag, had a sensational experience in the Atlantic about a month…

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Struck by Engine Level Crossing Accident ALBURY

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 6

At a railway crossing near Wodonga Railway Station last evening, a cab driven by Stanley Young, and containing his father and another passenger,…

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Fireman Drowned Christmas Eve Fatality

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 4

"Accidental death,' was the finding of the City Coroner (Mr. Hawkins) today, at an inquest into, the death of Johannes Hendrikse, 39, a Dutch…

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Train and Tram Fourteen Persons Injured Queensland Collision BRISRANE

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

Fourteen persons were injured, and a members of others had a [?]culous escapes, in a collision between a train and a steam from at the intersection of…

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Motor-cyclist Injured

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 4

Thomas Bleasdale, health inspector of Granville, was badly injured in a collision between his motor cycle and a car driven by Robert Benson, builder,…

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Hobart. Father Shinnick Injured

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 35

Rev. Father Andrew Shinnick, of Latrobe, Tasmania, met with a serious accident recently. He was proceeding from Latrobe to Devonport, via Spreyton, on his…

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