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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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With a Bottle of Rum Drowning in Blackwattle Bay

The Sun · Monday 13 June 1921 · page 8

The City Coroner (Mr. Jamieson) recorded a verdict of accidental drowning at an inquiry to-day into the death of Frederick Gregory, aged 40, whose…

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Railway Smash Twenty Killed; Fifty Injured LONDON, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 13 June 1921 · page 1

News of a serious railway smash has been received from Madrid. A telegram from bat city states that the South Andalusia express…

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28 Drowned Sinking of Bouboulina Only Eight Men Saved LONDON, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 13 June 1921 · page 1

A message from Athens reports that it is now stated that the steamer Bouboulina, which foundered in the Eastern Mediterranean after striking…

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Trotting Accidents. Excitement at Epping

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 June 1921 · page 6

In the first division of the Trial Handicap at the Epping trotting races on Saturday last three horses came down. When Annada's Lad and Sister Sue were…

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Drowning Cases. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 7

Mr. S. E. Woodgate, manager of the local branch of the Australian Bank of Commerce, received information last night that his son, Geoffrey, 18 years of age, had been drowned…

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Old Man Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 7

The body of Thomas Woods Gotto, aged 75, lately residing with his wife in Sussexstreet, city, was recovered by the Water Police on Sunday from the water near Phoenix…

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Shooting Fatality. Bundarra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 7

A fatality occurred here on Friday afternoon. Edward George Ridgewell, an employee of Clerkness Station, set out from his home at about half-past one, to proceed some…

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Missing Woman Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 8

WINCHAM, Monday.--The body of Mrs. W. Mills, who has been missing from her home since May 26. was recovered from a waterhole in proximity to her late residence yesterday…

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Boy Fatally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 7

Kenneth Tilley Hughes, aged 4 years, who lived in Wright's-road, Drummoyne, was knocked down by a cart in Bridge-street, Drummoyne, on Friday evening. One of the…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 9

GOULBURN, Monday.--Alfred Apps died at the district hospital this afternoon from injuries received in a motor-cycle hill-climbing contest on Rossiville Hill last Monday. He…

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Aeroplane Crashes. Pilot Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 5

WELLINGTON. N.Z., Monday.--During a trial fight at Hastings. Lieutenant Tatton's Avro aeroplane crashed. Tatton apparently found the atmospheric conditions against upward…

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DISTRICT. (Before Judge Scholes.) Motors in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 8

Albert Joe Gazzard, by his next friend, Albert Ernest Gazzard, carpenter, of Sydney Street, Homebush, sued John L. Stewart, of Albert Road. Strathfield, to recover £35 for…

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Spanish Train Disaster. 20 KILLED, 50 Injured. London, June 12

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 5

A Madrid message reports that the South Andalusia express collided with a train from Toledo near Villaverde. Twenty persons were killed, including the drivers of both trains, and…

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Shooting Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 7

A boy named William Astrop, aged 14, of Albion-lane, Surry Hills, was playing with a revolver on Friday afternoon when it accidentally exploded, and the bullet entered his…

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Accident at a Picnic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 7

Miss Alma Seymour, of Sapphire-street, Bondi, who was one of a party of girls at a picnic at Bradleys Head, on Sunday, accidentally fell over a cliff, a distance of 15ft. She…

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Accidents to Woman Two in a Night

The Sun · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 8

Irene Gallagher, aged 25, of Glenmore-road, Haddington, had narrow escapes from serious injury in Oxford-street, Bondi Junction, last night…

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Fatal Collision. Ex-soldier Killed. Three Others Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 10

In Flinders Street, near Anzac Parade, a collision occured late last night between a motor cycle and side car containing two returned soldiers and a horse and sulky, in which…

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Scalding Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 11

A child named June Yetta Impey, while playing at her residence, at 636 Darling-street Balmain, on Saturday night, pulled a saucepan-full of boiling water over herself,…

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