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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

2,061 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 104

Child Found Drowned In Centennial Park Pond

Evening News · Monday 14 April 1919 · page 3

The body of an is [?] girl was found [?] his pond in [?] Perk yesterday morning. A box-smoothing iron was attached by a…

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Accident to De Haviland Plane

Evening News · Monday 14 April 1919 · page 3

A paragraph in Friday's "Evening [?] has conveyed the Haviland [?] brought from Melbourne by [?] Taylor M.C., was under the…

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Burwood Motor Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1919 · page 3

While Miss Bell, daughter of Mr. E. W. Bell, of Burwood, wan driving her mother and her aunt, Mrs. H. Bradley, in a motor -car on Thursday afternoon, they came into collision…

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Three Children Drowned. Mother Charged with Murder. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 8

Magdalene McVeigh, who is charged with the murder of her three children, was brought before the Allora Police Court on Saturday. Dr. Pain stated that on Sunday, 6th inst.,…

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Injured by Explosion. Kalgoorlie (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 8

An accident of a shocking nature befell a miner named Nicholas Powell (64) on Saturday, when, through a box of detonators exploding, he had both eyes blown out, both hands and…

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Kicked by a Horse. a Young Man Fatally Injured

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 4

At Brookong North (N.S.W.) on Friday last, Patrick Doherty was feeding a horse on his uncle's farm, when the animal kicked him in the face,…

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Riot and Murder Ninety Persons Killed and Injured at Delhi. the Law Against Sedition

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 4

Serious rioting occurred at Delhi on March 30th. and the troops had to to called out to assist the police in quelling the disturbance. The…

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The World Under Re-construction Impenitent Wilhelm the Injured Innocent a Catspaw for Adroit Diplomats. Still Loves England!

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 2

Mr. Harold Begbic, the well-known novelist, who is acting as special correspondent for the London "Daily Chronicle" in Holland, has been…

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Safety First a Device to Prevent Accident on the Railways. Successful Experiments

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 5

The N.S.W. Railway Department has been experimenting for some time past on the Richmond branch line with an invention designed to make…

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Misadventures an Old Man Burned to Death in a Hut. a Shocking Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 4

A shocking burning fatality occurred at Black Hill, near Minmi (N.S.W.), on Sunday morning last, when James Timothy O'Donnell, aged sixty-five…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1919 · page 9

Last evening when Mr. E. L. Sutton, of Smith's Hill, who was returning from Keiraville with four convalescent nurses in a motor car, was nearing the corner of Park and…

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Country Visitor Injured

The Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1919 · page 5

William Hutchinson, a visitor from the country, was knocked down by a cart at the corner of Castlereagh and Bathurst streets this morning, and his…

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Motor Fatality Manslaughter Charge Fails

The Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1919 · page 6

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the City Coroner (Mr. Hawkins) to-day in an inquest on the body of Elizabeth Wade King, 27, of…

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Dongarra in a Gale. Lifeboat Carried Away. Ship's Carpenter Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1919 · page 11

Showing signs of damage sustained in a southerly gale which prevailed off the coast last week-end, the steamer Dongarra arrived in port from New York, via Panama,…

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Railway Smash Stock and Goods Trains Collision in Victoria Narrow Escape of Crews

The Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1919 · page 5

A sensational railway smash, between a goods and a stock train, occurred in Victoria this morning. Much damage was done, but no…

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Bundarra Hunting Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 April 1919 · page 13

Mr. Thos. M'Hugh, of Spring Gully, met with a painful accident while fox hunting. The horse he was riding came in contact with a wire hanging from a telephone…

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Amaroo Su[?]ky Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 April 1919 · page 15

Mrs. G. Dickenson sustained severe injuries to the head and body owing to being precipitated out of her sulky while…

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Trains in Collision. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 8

As a goods train wns standing at the Sunbury platform at a quarter past one this morning, a stock train coming down the line was, for some reason as yet unexplained, allowed…

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Don't Get Injured

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 39

A commercial traveller went home one day and said to his wife: "I have done something to-day that I should have done when I first started…

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