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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

2,061 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 104

Four Killed Shocking Motor Accident Fall Over Embankment Early Morning Discovery [?]

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 5

[?] in the [?] Mr. [?] and [?]…

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Accident to Steamer St. Louis. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 8

The steamer St. Louis put into Newcastle last night for repairs. The St. Louis left Sydney on Thursday last for Noumea. When about 250 miles from Sydney heavy seas,…

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Motor Fatality

The St George Call · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 6

The Acting City Coroner (Mr. Fincham) on Monday, returned a verdict of accidental death in an inquest on the body of a three-year old child, Alice…

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Supposed Case of Drowning

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 6

Sensation was caused in our district writes a Cattai correspondent) through the news spreading of a tragedy, that had happened. as it seemed, at the South…

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Level Choosing Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Friday.--A girl named Gill, aged 11, was driving a lorry over the level crossing on the down aide of the railway station at Yarragon yesterday morning, when she…

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Drowned in the Nepean

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 4

Another has to be added to the rather lengthy list of the those who have lost their lives by drowning in the Nepean River, the latest and occurance of this nature taking…

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Cottage Burnt Out Neighbor Injured

The Sun · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 7

A spark from a fire in the kitchen of Mr. Frank Radford's cottage in Mimosa-road, Bankstown, was the cause of a fire yesterday afternoon,…

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Motor Fatality. Three People Killed. Alstonville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 20

Early this morning a motor accident happened about a mile and a half from Alstonville, on Wardell-road, in which Irwin Appelby, a returned soldier, clerk to the A.M.P…

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Inquest on the Death of James Lawrence. A Railway Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 11

At Burwood on Friday the Parramatta Coroner (Mr. Richardson Clark) opened an enquiry touching the death of John James Lawrence, baker, of Ross-street, Parramatta, at the Western Suburbs…

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A Boy's Death by Drowning. Lies in the Coroner's Court. A Merrylands Tragedy

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 10

The coroner opened an enquiry, at the Parramatta Courthouse on Tuesday morning, touching the death of Cecil Gray. Dr. Hall deposed that on the 4th…

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Railway Smash Twelve Killed; 75 Injured PARIS, Friday Evening

Evening News · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 1

[?] were killed [?] the collision between [?] trains near [?] a coupling break…

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Accidentally Shot Glen Innes

The Sun · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 4

Thomas Ryan, aged 45, a farmer living near Pinkett, left home on Thursday morning to shoot ducks. He did not return, and yesterday morning a…

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Nearly an Accident

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 March 1919 · page 24

When Constance Talmadge was making a scene in Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots, a Select Comedy to be seen all this week at the Crystal Palace and Strand, she…

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Accidentally Shot

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1919 · page 7

Thomas Ryan, aged 46, a farmer living near Pinkett, left home on Thursday morning to shoot ducks. He did not return, and yesterday morning a…

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Northern River Fatality Two Bodies Recovered LISMORE

Evening News · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 5

A message from Ballina states that while on a fishing expedition on the Richmond River, near Wardell, yesterday afternoon, a boat containing a lad named…

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Victorian Training Notes. Sir Carl Fatally Injured. Flemington. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 10

It was raining and very bleak in the early part of the morning, but the weather conditions improved later. A deal of surface water was still lying over a large portion of the course, and the only tracks…

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Man Killed. Railway Crossing Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 5

HOBART, Sunday.--When George Hall, his wife, and daughter-in-law, on Saturday evening were passing over the railway crossing at Albert Road they were run down by a train…

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Motor-car Tragedy. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 8

LISMORE, Saturday.--An inquest into the deaths of J. R. Nowman, Irwin Appleby, and Mrs. E. Newman, killed through a motor-car overturning near Alstonville on Thursday…

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Railway Line Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 7

WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--William Robert Baillie (22), single, son of Mr. William Baillie, of Mayfield Street, Cessnock, and traveller for a pottery firm at Auburn, was found dead…

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