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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 104

Railway Fatality. Funeral of Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 5

GOULBURN, Monday.--The funerals of Lancelot Jacob Herrmann (29), married, of Munday Straet, Goulburn, and lately residing at Wardcll Road, Dulwlch Hill, and Albert Edward…

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Two Men Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 9

Whilst painting the stern of the steamer Courier at Queen's wharf to-day, two young men, Eddie Hester and Robert Manning, were standing in a flat-bottomed punt when the…

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Railway Fatality. Train Parts. Between Engine and Tender. Driver and Fireman Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 9

An extraordinary railway accident occurred between Binalong and Harden on Saturday night, resulting in the deaths of the driver and fireman of a goods train, the running away…

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Fatal Accident at a Silo. Berrigan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 9

The victim of the accident at the silos, John Snelly, 32, single, died on Sunday morning. Evidence at the coronial inquiry before Mr. R. D. Griffith, to-day, showed that the…

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Cab Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 9

A visitor from Fiji, Howard George Patcson. an hotelkeeper, received a compound fracture of the right leg aa the result of a cab accident last night. Accompanied by his…

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Drowned in the Yarra Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 29 September 1920 · page 3

Through the backwash from the steamer Loongana upsetting the punt in which they were working, Robert Manning, aged 19, and Edward Hester,…

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Pangerous Blasting Two People Injured

Evening News · Wednesday 29 September 1920 · page 5

[?] charge had been ex[?] eveavaions for a new building [?]-street yesterday, pieces [?] to the street, and struck…

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Pin That Slipped Binalong Accident lender Fxamined Emergency Drawbars Mystery BINALONG

The Sun · Wednesday 29 September 1920 · page 5

How Driver Lancelot Jacob Hermann, aged 29, and Fireman Albert Edward Taylor, aged 28, both married men, of Goulburn, were killed when the engine…

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Fatal Sulky Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 September 1920 · page 5

LEETON, Tuesday.--Mr. Beck, a Visitor form Cobar, who was injured in a sfilky accident of Saturday, died to hospital to-day Deceased was 69 years of age…

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Certificate Suspended Vaucluse-Newburgh Collision

The Sun · Thursday 30 September 1920 · page 5

After inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision that occurred in the harbor between the Vaucluse and the Newburgh on August 17, Judge…

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Railway Fatality. Inquiry Opened. Finding of the Coroner

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 September 1920 · page 5

BINALONG, Wednesday.--Mr. J. W. W. Yeo (District Coroner), to-day continued the adjourned Inquiry concerning the cause of the accident on the railway line last Saturday…

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"Most Unfortunate" The Binalong Fatality Coroner on Safety First Flaw in Drawbar

The Sun · Thursday 30 September 1920 · page 7

It is most unfortunate that the victims of the accident did not wait for assistance... Possibly the engine and tender left the depot…

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AMELIA J. Accident to Search Vessel. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 September 1920 · page 9

Although a week has passed since Captain W. J. Stutt and his mechanic, Sergeant A. G. Dalzell, left Point Cook in a D.H.[?] biplane to search for signs of the missing schooner…

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Binalong Accident the Coroner's Verdict. No Negligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 September 1920 · page 9

The circumstances in which Lancelot Hermann, a locomotive driver, and Albert Edward Taylor, a fireman, were killed near [?]long on Saturday night through the engine…

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On Bellambi Reef Accident to Bermagui Captain Consured

The Sun · Thursday 30 September 1920 · page 5

On September 9 the steamer Bermagui, belonging to the South Coast Co., grounded on Bellambi Reef, at 8 p.m., while on a voyage from Ulladulla to…

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Fatality at Hurstville

The Propeller · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 1

A fall of earth occurred in a pit at the Federal Brickyards, Hurstville, on Saturday last, and Ernest John, Thew. 35. a laborer, of Staple St…

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Miner Injured

The Sun · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 7

John Hudson, aged 53, a miner, of Denison-street, Wauverley, was admitted to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital late yesterday afternoon,…

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Municipal Employee Injured

The Propeller · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 5

W. Robinson, an employee of Kogarah Council, had one of his feet badly crushed and lacerated on Tuesday. He was walking beside the…

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Petersham Fatality Man Cut to Pieces

Evening News · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 8

A man was knocked down and cut places by a train near Petersham railway station last night. His name is Joseph Carstens, and he…

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Scream, Then a Fall Early Morning Fatality

The Sun · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 5

Block Watchman Mansergh was on duty in King-street Just after 12 o'clock this morning when he heard a scream, and then saw a woman fall from the…

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