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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 104

Northcote Cup Second Race Postponed Accident to Awanul MELBOURNE

Evening News · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 5

A minute or two before the second face for the Northcote Cup was to have started this afternoon. Awful (New South Wales) had the misfortune to have…

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Picture Show Ablaze Three Firemen Injured Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 1 February 1920 · page 2

This morning a fire broke out in a picture theatre in East Adelaide. The structure, which was of wood and iron, was practically destroyed…

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Firemen Injured in Burning Picture Show Adelaide

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 February 1920 · page 9

The Star Picture Theatre, a spacious iron and wood structure at East Adelaide was practically destroyed by fire this morning. Just as the brigade was…

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Killed by a Tram Accident at Sports Ground

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 February 1920 · page 2

As a result of a tram accident outside the Sports Ground about half-past 10 last night, a man named Robert Miller, address unknown, was admitted to the…

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Man Drowned National Park Fatality

The Sun · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 5

Henry Marsh, aged 31, an attendant at Sydney Hospital, who lived in Moore-street, Drummoyne, was drowned at National Park yesterday…

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Cricket Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 6

BRISBANE, Sunday.--A fatality occurred during cricket practise at [?] yesterday. Charles Coe (30) played at a "full tosser," which glanced off the bat and struck him heavily on the [?]. He fell to the…

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Surf Fatality Nowra Girl Crowned

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 3

Miss Pearly Windley. 16 of Nowra, was drowned in the surf at Crookhaven Roads white bathing yesterday. Her alter has a narrow escape, as did two…

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Fatally Injured Flinders St. Accident Traveller Knocked Down

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 1

The death of Ambrose Federal[?] a commercial [?] that the Sydney Hospital on January at from [?] received through being knocked by a…

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Man Drowned at National Park

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 4

An employee of the Sydney Hospital named Henry March, 32 of Moore-street [?] was drowned in a deep hole in the said water river at National Pars…

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Swimming in a Dam Country Youth Drowned

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 1

Feliz Faby 18. residing with his parents at Cleary [?] Narrambia, three miles from Orange has drowned while bathing in a dam yesterday afternoon. A younger…

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Fell 50 Feet A Bronte Accident

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 4

John Andrews 80 of Little Coogee was out for a walk this afternoon. and was crossing an allotment near the waiting shed at the last tram stop before the…

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Motor 'Bus Accident

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 8

Passengers in a motor bus which ply plus between Believe Hill and the railway has a narrow escape this morning [?] the Oxford-street…

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Northcote Cup. Accident to Awanui Iii. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 7

The second heat of the Northcote Cup, willen was to have been sailed on Saturday, won postponed until to-morrow, By halt past 2, when the three competitors—…

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Man Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 5

MOLONG, Monday.--At The Shades, near Molong, Alfred Edward Hyland (50), while swimming in a dam, was seized with cramp. He sank in 15ft. of water and was drowned…

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Collision Stops Thief

Evening News · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 5

[?] harman who [?] Central Police [?] £3. with an [?] day's…

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Motor Cycle Accident Girl Killed at Manly Collision with a Cart

Evening News · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 1

A motor accident at Manly last night resulted in the death of Phyllis Manning, 13, who lived with her parents in Murdock- street Neutral Bay…

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Yacht Capsizes Adelaide Fatality ADELAIDE

The Sun · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 2

A drowning fatality occurred at Brighton on Sunday evening, as the result of a yacht capsizing. There were four in the boat-- Messrs…

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Three Drowned Father and Two Daughters

Evening News · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 4

Arthur F. Porter. 45, and his daughters Annie, 15, and Ethel, 12, were drowned in the Macallister River at Maffrs Gippsland Victoria on Saturday. The…

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'Caught on the Pull.' a Queensland Cricket Fatality

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 4

A fatality occurred during cricket practices at Tinana, near Maryborough (Q.), on Saturday last. A member of the local club, named Charles Coe,…

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Three Drowned. Father and Two Daughters Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 7

A triple tragedy occurred at Maffra (Gippsland) on Saturday afternoon, when Arthur E. Porter, aged 45, and his daughters, Annie, aged 15, and Ethel, aged 13, were drowned in the…

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