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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Boy Badly Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 3

TEMORA, Thursday.--While the little son of Mr. F. L. .Mallinson was playing near the wheel of a header, unnoticed by his father, the latter started the machine in motion,…

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A Lumper Injured

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 5

West Wyalong. Friday.--A wheat lumper named William Sam, whilst applying a brake to a truck of wheat at the railway station, was jammed…

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Injured by Falling Tree

The Propeller · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 1

On Sunday afternoon Miss Gillespie, of Glebe Point, was sitting under a tree with a lady friend at Kogarah when the tree was blown down by the wind…

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Brickpit Tragedy. Boy and Girl Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 10

Two children, Alfred Brennan, aged 7 years, and Eileen Merle Durant, aged 8 years, were drowned yesterday morning in the deep pond at the bottom of an abandoned brick pit…

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Drowned in the Nepean PENRITH

Evening News · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 1

Ph[?] Walker, 22, a visitor from Sydney, who was staying with his sister at "Wimborna," Mulgoa, was swimming this morning just below the Wallacia Weir in…

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Motor Launch Sinks. Young Man Drowned

The Propeller · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 1

On Monday last Francis Adam Fletcher, of Inverness Avenue, Penshurst, and his sixteen-year-old son, Frederick Harold Fletcher, left Kurnell on their…

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Two Children Drowned. Fell Into Brick Pit

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 6

A boy and a girl wore drowned in an, old brick-pit at St. Peters yesterday morning. The pit is not far from St. Peters railway station, is deep, and extends for some distance…

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The Salt Pan Fatality. Evidence at the Inquest

The Propeller · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 1

At the Sydney Coroner's Court on Wednesday an inquiry was held concorning the death of Ronald Edgar Coleman, aged 15 years, who was…

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A New Zealand Fatality. Motor-Bus Plunges Into River

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

A party of women and captures, numbering fourteen persons, was being driven to a picnic at Hawkes Bay (N.Z.) on Monday last, when the…

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Steam-team and Motor-car. Fatal Head-on Collision

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

Late on Monday afternoon a motorcar, driven by Oliver Hempel of Parramatta (Sydney), with Ambrose P. Whiting, his son William, and a…

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Three Sisters Drowned. Swept Away by a Flooded River

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

A grazier of Gum Creek, in the Charleville (Q.) district, named A. E. Switzer, was driving his wife and six children to Charleville on Wednesday…

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Three Persons Drowned. Motor-Car's Dive into Hunter River

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

A motor fatality, involving the death of a Cessnock hotel-keeper named Arthur Hampton, his son, Kenneth, and a little girl named Molly Sheehan…

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Unemployed Riot Eleven Injured VANCOUVER, January 5

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 1

A message from Brooklyn states that 11 persons were injured during a riot of unemployed garment workers…

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A Fall of Stone. Fatality at the Mount Kemble Mine

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

On Wednesday last, a fall of stone occurred at the Mount Kemble mine, at Wollonging (N.S.W.), crushing a miner named Arthur Funnell, and…

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An Accidental Explosion. a Wallera[?] Boy's Death

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 3

A number of were inspecting a revolver, which one of them had recently pu[?]ased at [?] when the weapon exploded. The bullet…

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Scene of, the Dreadful Railway Accident at Woy Woy

Evening News · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 1

The boddge and [?] where [?]…

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Accident at Backjumping Show

Evening News · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 2

Charles Ryan, 31, a laborer, of Wells-street, Croydon, was riding a horse at the backjumping show in Ryde Pack. City, last night, when he fell. He was…

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Rockdale 'Bus Accident Finding of Accidental Death

Evening News · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 3

Through trying to board a moving 'bus at Rockdale on December 27 Frank Scott, aged 44, a carter, of Bexley, had one of his legs crushed by a wheel, and…

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Accidental Death a Wellington Incident WELLINGTON

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 5

The adjourned Inquest touching the death, of Frank Holden, who died ag the result or Injuries received through u fall on the footpath opposite the…

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Killed by a Train Accident at Petersham

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 6

The death of Henry Thomas Stickley, aged 52, a traveller, of Croydon-avenue, Croydon Park, who was killed by a train at Petersham Station on…

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