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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

2,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 134

Casualties. Child Fatally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 10

James Stacey, aged 2½ years, who resided with his parents in Glebe-road. Glebe, wandered out into George-street, opposite Grace Bros., last night, and was knocked down by…

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Launch Disaster Engaged Couple Drowned BRISBANE

The Sun · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 7

The bodies of the three victims of the boating disaster in the Brisbane River have been recovered. Rita Gelling and William McGuire,…

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Cut to Pieces Railway Fatality Two Men Run Down Bathurst

The Sun · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 7

A shocking fatality happened at Locksley at noon, when the paper train running from Sydney to Bathurst ran over a ganger and a laborer engaged…

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Injured at North Sydney Tried to Stop Bolting Horse

Evening News · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 3

While ende [?]ring to stop a bolting horse near the North Sydney Gas Works al Berry's Bay, To-day C. Harrison, 21 a laborer, of Burt-street…

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Fatalities & Accidents Old Man Knocked Down

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 6

James Reid (74), living at Millers Point, was knocked down by a tram in George Street, near Bridge Street, yesterday afternoon. The Civil Ambulance took him to Sydney Hospital, where…

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Remarkable Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 5

While opening a bottle yesterday afternoon, John Barrett (28), licensee of the Royal Exhibition Hotel, Chalmers Street. Sydney, gashed himself in the thigh and hand so severely as to…

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Street Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1922 · page 10

James Mold, 74, living at 72 Miller-street Miller's Point, was knocked down by a tram In George-street, near Bridge-street, yesterday afternoon. The Civil Ambulance…

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Narrowly Averted Collision Off Heads

The Sun · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 9

The big barque Bellands was nearly in collision with a steamer when off Sydney Heads last night. It was stated to-day that at 10.45…

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Drowned in Stream BELLINGEN

Evening News · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 5

Mr. F. J. Fredericks, the biggest prizewinner for cattle at the local show, was returning from Dorrigo with cattle yesterday when he was drowned at…

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A Schoolboy Hanged. An Unusual Fatality

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 4

A seven-old boy named Waiter C. M'Farlane was hanged at his home at South Geelong (Vic) in a most peculiar manner on Monday last…

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Seized with Cramps. a Schoolboy Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 4

After school on Friday last a number of boys were swimming in the Burrowa River at Burrowa (N.S.W) Suddenly a fifteen-year-old lad named…

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Caught in the Undertow. a Ship's Fireman Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 4

While a fireman from the steamer [?] aimed Alex Mckinnon was bathing at the Coff's Harbor (N.S.W.) beach last week, he was swept out to…

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Cattle=owner Drowned Returning from Show BELLINGEN

The Sun · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 3

Mr. F. J. Fredericks, of Dorrigo, who was a large exhibitor in the cattle classes at the Bellingen and Dorrigo shows, was accidentally drowned at…

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Struck by a Palling Limb. Peculiar Fatality at Wanchope

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 4

A young man named Thomas Cooper was the Victim of a peculiar accident at Wanchope (N.S.W) last week while he was sitting under a tree one…

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District Court. (Before Judge Scholes.) a George-street Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 6

This was an action in which Samuel Dicksun, of Hiles-street, Alexandria, sued F. H. Stuart, of Liverpool-road, Chullora, near Enfield, for the recovery of £27/10/ for damages…

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Sutherland Shire and South Coast News Motor Accident at Gymea Bay

The St George Call · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 7

A [?]onulla Resident Injured Mrs. Talter J. A. Hodgkinson, of Waratah Street, Cronulla, builder, and formerly proprietor of the Post…

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Horses Electrocuted Accident at Redfern

The Sun · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 9

While Claude Dreves, of King-street, St. Peters, was driving four horses attached to a lorry roaded with bricks along Bellevue-street, Redfern, at 5.30…

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Strange Motor Accident. Car Leaps Over Cliff

The Propeller · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 4

On Monday night Mr. W. J. A. Hodgkinson, a well-known resident of Cronulla, had a narrow escape from death or serious injury. He had driven a…

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Cut to Pieces Railway Accident. Two Men Killed Bathurst

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 9

A shocking double railway fatality occurred near Locksley this morning, when Ganger Herbert Lance Evans (34), lately residing with his wife and…

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Little to Fear Plague's Weak Spots Street Accidents Worse

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 8

Science has discovered the plague's weak spots. There is now little fear of the scourge obtaining any real hold in a sanitary, cleanly city such as Sydney…

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