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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

2,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 134

Long Vigil Injured Horse Trainer's Ordeal

Evening News · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 6

For nearly 43 hours, during rain and heat, a man has faithfully attended a sick horse in a street at Kensington…

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District Motor Car Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 9

Before his Honor and a jury, Eileen Josephine M'Cardie, wife of John G. M'Cardie, of 28 Victoria Street, Paddington, blacksmith's striker, sought to recover £100 damages from…

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Fatality at Sylvania

The Propeller · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 1

Falling from a water waggon in Illawarra Road, Sylvania,last Saturday afternoon, Joseph Sparkes, who lives at Bexley, was badly injured. One of…

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Hudson's Concentrated Eucalyptus, prepared and refined by a special process, is a triumph of modern Chemistry. Unlike some Oils and DROWNED?

Evening News · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 5

Mystery of Empty Skiff MAN WHO WENT FISHING…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 6

A motor accident, which occurred at Darlinghurst on December 3, resulting in the death of Laura Crosby, aged 19 years, who was returning with her sister to a dance, was recalled at the Central Police Summons…

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Was It Accident? McDowell's Death the Medical Evidence

The Sun · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 8

The inquiries concerning the death of Lindsay Gordon McDowell, who was found unconscious under the palms in Macquarie-street, near the Mitchell…

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A Collision

Nepean Times · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 2

Shortly after midday on Friday Arthur Waller was proceeding across High Street in his invalid tricycle chair, when a horse, attached to a…

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Glenfield Railway Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 5

The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Arthur Mylrea and Sydney Michael Dignan, who were killed on the railway, near Glenfleld,…

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Shunter Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 12

While engaged in shunting some trucks near the Cleveland Street tunnel, at about 9.15 last night, a shunter named Hudson, residing at Gibbs Street, Concord, was struck on the…

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Wharf Laborer Injured

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 5

Albert Sercome, 42, wharf laborer of [?] Surry Rails, was badly injured to-day on the P. and O. wharf Circular Quay. He was…

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Railway Ganger's Death Fatality at Parramatta Ex-emu Plains Resident

Nepean Times · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 1

Last week we briefly referred to the death of Mr. Henry Tames Cornell, a member of a well-known Emu Plains family who was accidentally killed on…

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Seventeen Drowned Gale in English Channel Only Ten Survivors London, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 1

Seventeen of the crew, including the captain, of the 3000-ton steamer Depute Albert Taillandier, were drowned in a gale in the Channel…

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A Shocking Accident. Young Man Caught in Machine

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 6

A shocking accident occurred on Monday, at the West Coast Kalsomine Works, Camellia. The victim was Percy Weekes, aged 19, who resides at Palmer-street,…

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Two Motor Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1922 · page 12

While attempting to cross Parramatta Road, Petersham, last, night Arthur Osborne (67), of Tuppet Street, Leichhardt, was knocked down by a motor car. He was conveyed to the Royal…

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Colonel K'Nut Injured

Sunday Times · Sunday 30 April 1922 · page 7

In the Hurdle Race at Randwick yesterday Colonel K'Nut sustained a cut on the near fetlock and inside the near hock…

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Man Cut to Pieces Train Fatality at Lidcombe

Sunday Times · Sunday 30 April 1922 · page 2

A man whose identity, up till a late hour, had not been definitely established, was run down by a train at Lidcombe last night and mangled beyond…

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Impaled on Shaft Motor Cyclist's Shocking Death in Collision

Sunday Times · Sunday 30 April 1922 · page 2

Eric Britton, 21, was killed in shocking circumstances last night in a collision on the Pennant Hills-road. His head was impaled on the shaft of a sulky…

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Horse Bolts Man's Brave Act Driver Seriously Injured

The Sun · Sunday 30 April 1922 · page 5

A man whose name is unknown displayed wonderful nerve in stopping a bolting horse attached to a cart at Rockdale yesterday afternoon…

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An Injured Woman. Accusation of "Bodily Harm". Jack Whittaker Charged and Committed

Truth · Sunday 30 April 1922 · page 7

On February 23 last a young, unmarried woman was admitted to the Mater Misericordi[?] Hospital, North Sydney, in critical condition…

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Swimming Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 May 1922 · page 10

The body of William Alexander Munro, who was seen to throw up his aims and disappear in the shark-infested waters of Mooney Mooney Creek on Wednesday last, was…

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