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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

2,061 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 104

Flying Accident. London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 5

Lieutenant J. F. Macnock, an Australian, was killed through fulling from an aeroplane a distance of 1000 feet. The machine continued pilotless for hundreds of yards, and…

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State Boy Drowned Companions Get Frightened

The Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 9

Mr. H. Richardson Clark, Parramatta District Coroner, held an inquiry at the Parramatta Courthouse, touching the death of a State boy Cecil Gray…

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Injured Wharf Labourer's Case. Important Point Raised

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 4

Judge Scholes, in the Sydney District Court yesterday, decided an interesting point that had been raised in the application of William Etickson,…

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Fifty Stitches Girl Badly Injured ADELONG

The Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 8

When Biddy Roche, the daughter of Mr. William Roche, the local coroner was placed on the back of a horse yesterday, the animal became…

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Steamers Collide Hobart Harbor Accident HOBART

The Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 7

Huddart, Parker, Ltd's, steamer Westralia, 2884 tons, when leaving Hobart to-day for Sydney, collided with the small wooden steamer Star (88 tons)…

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Harbor Collision Ferry Steamer and Hopper

Evening News · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

The Sydney Ferries Limited's steamer Kummulla when off Kirribilli at about 10 o'clock last night, collied with a hopper that was being towed up the…

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Westralia Sunk. Collision with Channel Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Hobart steamer Westralia, when changing berths this morning, collided with the channel steamer Star as she was lying alongside the pier. The…

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Three Horses Bolt Driver Injured

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 8

At the top of Harris-street three horses caused excitement earlier in the afternoon. These were attached to a lorry…

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Harbor Collision. Ferry Steamer and Hopper. Bump Off Kirribilli

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 5

A collision between the Sydney Ferries' steamer Kummulla and a hopper in tow of a steamer occurred last night off Kirribilli Point. The Kummulla was on her way to Cremorne,…

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Injured by Motor Car Driver on Trial

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

At the Quarter Sessions to-day a young man, John Fleming Leake, was charged with having caused bodily harm to Thomas Henry Davis. There…

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Accident at Killara Man Falls Under Train

Evening News · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

William Pero 19 a dairyman of St. Peters who was employed at a dairy at killers was severely injured at Killara Railway Station last night He had…

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Horse Electrocuted a Remarkable Accident

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 8

John Moore, a letter-carrier, of Ashfield Post-office, was the owner of a show horse, which he called "Officer." It took a first prize for walking at lost…

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Drowned in Creek

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 3

WINDSOR, Thursday.--Ernest Alfred James Hay ward (10), son of Mrs. James Hayward of Macquarie Street, was drowned in the South Creek on Sunday. He was missed from his…

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Woman Drowned; Man Missing

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 5

EDEN, Thursday.--The Townmba, Kiah, and Nullica bridges were washed away in the recent flood. All the maize and potato crops on the Towamba River are destroyed, with…

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Injured. New South Wales

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 2

Lieut. S. G. Burdus (Parramatta); Durs. B. Broadhust (Dulwich Hill). K. W. Cook (Newtown), H. Moore (Dulwich [?]); Gur. R. Hendesson (Scotland); Spr. H. Hedges…

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Drowned at Pozieres in Flooded Trenches Australians' Awful Fate

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 4

The reason to many Australian soldiers were reported missing after the Pozieres battle is explained by Sergeant Curtis Neville, who has just returned to Molong,…

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Lost at Sea. Two Men Drowned off the Kadina

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 4

When the steamer Kadina arrived at Adelaide (S.A.) direct from Sydney on Tuesday last the master reported the loss of two men during the voyage…

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William-street Accident Motor Driver Blameless

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 7

John Fleming Leake, a young man, was charged at the Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday with [?] at [?] September 2 last caused bodily harm to…

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