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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

2,061 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 104

A Serious Tram Accident. a Double-decked Car Overturns

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 20 May 1919 · page 4

A tram accident, attended with serious results, occurred at Christchurch (N.Z.), on Friday last. A tram, consisting of a motor and two…

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Fatal Accident.' London. May l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1919 · page 7

Two Handley-Page machines were flying from Marseilles to Egypt, when one crashed into an aerodrome in Rome, and two lieutenants were kilzd…

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Harbor Collision Ferry and Lighter

The Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 6

The ferry steamer Kubu came into collision with a lighter on the harbor this morning, and as a result the ferry steamer was damaged to the extent of…

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Ferry Steamer Damaged Collision With Tug

Evening News · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 4

As the Kubs on bar [?] trip from Moeman turned into the Quay this morning a fighter is charge of a tug was [?] for the P. and O. Wharf…

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Bolting Horses. Three Men Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 10

Henry Moore was driving a pair of young horses attached to a timber jinker along Bathurst Street late yesterday afternoon, when a dog rushed at the horses, which bolted. At the…

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Motor Car in Water Channel. Four Persons Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 11

BATHURST, Tuesday. -- A motor car, driven and owned by Mr. A. Meadows, dentist, of Bathurst, with eight other occupants, crashed into a water channel St. deep on the…

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Workmen's Compensation Death Following Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 7

The [?] Court of Appeal recently [?] of interest to employers [?] to relation to compensation to workmen…

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Accident at Wheat Stack. Man's Painful Injury

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 11

ORANGE, Monday. -- Thomas Hagar, of Forest Reefs, met with a remarkable accident on Saturday, while working on the Government wheat stacks at Spring Hill. He was assisting to load…

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Bellingen District Shooting Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 15

Miss Pearl Pettitt was admitted into the Raleigh District Hospital as the resuit of an extraordinary shooting accident at Urunga. A travelling hawker was…

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Uranquinty Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 15

Mr. Michael Waldron was carting gravel when he slipped and fell from the Waggon. The loaded, dray passed over his left arm, and broke it…

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Accident in George Street West

Evening News · Thursday 22 May 1919 · page 6

Olive Rogers, 17, has Bridge-road, Clebe, was [?] George-street West, City, [?] last night. [?]…

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The Como Fatality

The Propeller · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 2

Mr. H. S. Hawkins, tho City Coroner, hold an inquest at the City Coroner's Court on Monday on the body of Alfred P. Hoey, 72, caretaker at the…

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The Courts. Civil. Fatally Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 7

While riding Fair Murllic in the Farm Stakes event at Warwick Farm races on November 16 last, when some of the horses collided, Sydney Robert Watmough, who was apprenticed to J…

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Motor-cyclist at Manly Disregarded Injured Pedestrian

Evening News · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 3

The case of a [?] down a [?]…

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"In a Brown Study" Returned Soldier Fatally Injured

Evening News · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 5

The [?] was [?] along with his head [?]…

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A Pea-rifle Accident. a Returned Soldier Shot

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 4

A returned soldier named John Diver was the victim at a pea-rifle accident at Cessnock (N.S.W.) on Tuesday night. Diver, with two…

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Workers' Accidents. Zam-Buk is Needed to Prevent Blood Poison and Disease

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 20

Every worker should always keep a pot of Zam-Buk within easy reach, Cuts and bruises are a daily occurrence, and unless they are dressed with Zam-Buk…

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Accident at Wheat Stack

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 20

Thomas Hagar, of Forest Reefs, met with a remarkable accident last week while working on the Government wheat stacks at Spring Hill. He was…

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The Westmoreland. Series of Accidents. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 9

Late last night advice was received at Dunedin that the steamer Westmoreland, which was on her way from the Bluff to Wellington, struck the ground heavily. She…

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