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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Peculiar Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 8

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.-- Patrick Thomas Hickey (65), a life-long resident of Bolwarra, was found dead in a hay shod this morning with the shaft of a loaded bay-dray…

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Railway Collision Passenger and Goods Trains Two Persons Injured MELBOURNE

Evening News · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 4

Two trains, one a goods, which was backing into the station yard, and the other a passenger from Melbourne, collided about midnight at Mord[?] on…

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Railway Fatality. Boy Killed At Como

The Propeller · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 1

Last Saturday morning the dead body of a boy was found on the railway line between Como and Sutherland. The neck was broken and one arm was…

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Misadventures. a Death Trap Two Persons Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 4

At an early hour on Sunday morning a boy named Lindsay Russell was drowned near the East Greta (N.S.W.) Junction, despite a gallant attempt…

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A Victim of Toe Gale. Seaman Drowned in Sydney Harbor

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 4

During the height of the gale that swept over the casters coast of New South Wales on Wednesday a leading seaman on H.M.A.S. Encounter, named…

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"I've Ended the World." How Was Mrs. Duncan Drowned?

The Propeller · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 4

"I think she must have lost her memory and wandered into the water," said Cecil Valentine Duncan, a clerk, of Beaconsfield Street, Bexley, giving…

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Tragedies of the Storm Swept Away by Stream Macouarie River Fatality

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 4

One of the oldest and best known drovers in the west, Mr. Geo, Cutley, was drowned in the Macquarie River at Bathurst (N.S.W.), on Sunday…

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Trains Collide Smash Near Melbourne Two Passengers Injured MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 6

While a goods train was shunting on to a siding at Mordialloc at 10.40 p.m. yesterday the 10.4 p.m. passenger train from Frankston collided with it…

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City Road Accident Coroner's Advice to Trammen

Evening News · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 4

The City Coroner this afternoon in[?] the death of Miss Ann [?] who died in Prince Alfred Hospital on July 27 from injuries received…

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Lieutenant Parer Recovering From Accident MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 6

Lieutenant Parer, who was injured by the propeller of his machine after descending at Gisborne on Wednesday, and is now in Mount St. Evins'…

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Drowned in Drain Lithgow Tragedy Lithgow

The Sun · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 5

Early this morning the body of a laborer named William Donovan, a single man, was found lying face downward in a deep drain near the Royal…

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Our Jack's injured Up and About Again

Evening News · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 1

[?] from the Our Jack when [?] recently—Albert [?] Head-road." Darling [?] of Ho[?]-street…

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Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 2

Amongst the casualties treated at St. Joseph's Hospital during the past week or so are the following:—Erie Bell (17), Macquarie-road, Auburn, strained muscle:…

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Epping. Cycling Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 8

Master Allen Kench, of Rae-road, Epping, sustained a nasty fall from a bicycle on Saturday last. He was riding along Rae-road, when the fork of the machine…

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News in Brief Drowned in Drain

The Sun · Sunday 7 August 1921 · page 4

Having fallen into a drain in which there was a few inches of water, William Donovan, a laborer, was found dead at Lithgow yesterday morning…

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Disastrous Slips Several People Injured

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 August 1921 · page 2

Early yesterday afternoon, when alighting from a moving motor-car in Parramatta-road, near Norton-street. Leichhardt, John Swindale, 40, who lives…

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Octogenarian Burnt Woman's Serious Accident

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 August 1921 · page 2

Screams coining from a house in Marine-road, Watson's Bay, late yesterday afternoon attracted the attention of Mr. Frank Mason, a neighbor. He ran…

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Tram Conductor Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 August 1921 · page 8

Arthur Shaw (28), a tram conductor, living at Burwood, fell from a tram in Harris Street, Pyrmont, on Saturday night, striking his head on the road He was taken by the civil…

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Railway Collision. London, Aug. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 August 1921 · page 9

The York to London express crashed into a holiday train bound for Leeds from Bridlington while the latter was putting out of Selby station this afternoon. The express cut…

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Benalla Collision Blame Apportioned London, August 5

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 August 1921 · page 5

The Admiralty Court heard cross-actions arising out of the collision in May last between the P. and O. liner Benalia and the oil-tank steamer Patella, in a fog, off Pevensey Bay…

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