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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

2,615 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 131

Collision in a Fog. Passenger Steamer Sunk. Vancouver, April 1

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 11

The Admiral Line passenger steamer Governor, bound from San Francisco to Seattle, was in collision with the steamer West Hartland (Vancouver to Bombay) off Port…

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260 Rescued Sinking of Governor Collision in Fog VANCOUVER

The Sun · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 1

The coastal passenger liner Governor, of the Admiral Line, sunk 30 minutes after a collision in a fog in Puget Sound…

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Jumped From Balcony Raid in the City Chinese Injured

The Sun · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 6

A raid on an alleged opium -den in Foster -street, city, about 10 o'clock last night had a startling side to it for a Chinese, Jimmy Lee Guey, aged…

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Painful Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 5

Mr. J. McDonald, of the Hill View dairy, Auburn, met with a painful accident on Thursday morning as he was preparing hot feed for his cows. He was in the act of mixing the feed in a…

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Supreme Court. Banco Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and Juries.) Motor Car Accident. Arnoid v Willcocks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 9

In the action in which Clarice Arnold sued Alan George Willcocks, claiming £750 compensation for injuries caused to her by being run over by the defendant's motor car, at…

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Injured Jockeys

The Sun · Sunday 3 April 1921 · page 6

Inquiries last night at St. Vincent's Hospital showed that E. J. Mooney, who was injured while riding in the First Steeplechase at Randwick on…

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Harris Weingott Drowned. "Probably Accidentally", Says The Crowner

Truth · Sunday 3 April 1921 · page 7

A curious coincidence was the death by drowning of Harris Weingott, one of the partners of the firm of Weingott and Sons, at Annandale, on the 14th March…

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Eurythmic's Withdrawal an Injured Fetlock

The Sun · Sunday 3 April 1921 · page 5

Expressions of disappointment at the non-appearance of Eurythmic and Poltrel in the A.J.C. Plate at Randwick yesterday were heard on all sides…

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The Fatal Spin Death of Lieut. McIntosh—Not a Qualified Pilot Cause of Accident?

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 April 1921 · page 2

The death of Lieut McIntosh as the result of an aeroplane accident in Western Australia has caused great speculation regarding the cause of the accident…

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Steamers in Collision. Vancouver. April 1

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 5

The steamer West Hartland, which was in collision with the steamer Governor off Port Townsend, when the latter sank, did not suffer very severe damage. She subsequently…

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Steamers in Collision. Vancouver, April 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 7

The survivors from the Governor, which was sunk as the result of a collision with the Westhartland off Port Townshend, were taken aboard the Westhartland, which proceeded…

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Thrown From Sulky Child Fatally Injured ORANGE

Evening News · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 3

While driving from Ta[?] to Blayney, and when crossing an overhead bridge, near Millthorpe, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrill Webster and child were thrown out…

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Fatal Sulky Accident Child the Victim ORANGE

The Sun · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 6

Whilst driving from Tallwood to Blayney, and when crossing over the head bridge near Millthorpe, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Webster and a child were…

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Man Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 9

While discharging carge from the steamer Bakhara, lying alongside No. 10 wharf, Walsh's Bay, last night, Harry Wilson, a wharflabouror about 60 years of age, fell into the…

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Drowned in Harbor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 5

A man whose name is believed to have been Harry Wilson, lately living at Haberfield, was drowned under peculiar circumstances near the steamer Bokhara, at No. 10 Miller's Point,…

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Wharf Laborer Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 6

Joseph Fun[?] who lived at [?] was drowned in the harbor last night. With others [?] was unloading steel plates…

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Wharf-labourer Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 9

A wharf-labourer named Thomas Cox, aged 24, of Little Edward-street, Balmain, caught his left feet in the cogw[?] of a winch on board the Burns, Philp steamer Malayan…

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Horses Bolted Produce Merchant Injured

The Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 7

Reinhold Smith, aged 40, a produce merchant, of Catherine-street, Leichhardt, tried to stop his horses, which had bolted, at the Alexandria Goods…

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