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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

3,212 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 161

Motor 'Buses Burnt Youth Seriously Injured Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 6

A fire which broke out in a shed used for housing the three motor 'buses of Messrs. Johns and Skinner, in Dennison Street, Carrington, early on…

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Car Strikes Post One Man Killed Another Seriously Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 6

As the result of the collision of a motor car with a verandah post at Canterbury on Saturday night, one man was killed and two injured, one…

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Hand of Fate Barrow Falls on Woman [?]arkable Accident

Evening News · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 1

Mrs. Elizabeth Bracks of West [?]oreland street. Glebe, had an escape from instant death to-day, that was little short of miraculous…

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Gun Accident. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 10

Neville Offner, son of Mr. Augustus Offner, of March, near Orange, while inserting a charge into a muzzle-loading gun, jammed more in than the barrel warranted, with the…

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Accident at a Mine. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 10

Mr. Jacob Derrett, manager of the Lucknow alluvial mine, met with a serious accident on Friday. While four men were on a doublehandled windlass over the shaft, hauling up the…

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Week-end Accidents Many Casualties

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 4

The ambulance and hospital staffs in the city and suburbs experienced a busy week-end, and the casualties were more numerous than usual…

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Woman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1923 · page 6

Mrs. Elizabeth Bracks, of Westmoreland Street, Glebe, was walking beneath a building, which is being demolished, near the Central Railway Station…

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Rescuer Drowned Cooma

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1923 · page 6

The coroner (Mr. H. Solomon) to-day held an inquest into the cause of death of David Joseph O'Rourke, who died yesterday afternoon. The deceased took…

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Two Drowned Canoe Tragedy Brisbane

Evening News · Tuesday 13 February 1923 · page 6

The [?] of Henry young and [?] who [?] from…

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Ring Pars From Here, There, and Everywhere. One Time Time-[?]eper Injured

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 13 February 1923 · page 8

Mr. George Jack, the well-known manufacturing jeweller and goldsmith of the Strand Arcade, who was for year honorary time-keeper at the Olympia,…

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Workmen Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 11

A wharf laborer. Hainan Lissper (39). siding in Winnie Street, Burwood. was working at No. 7 Wharf. Woolioomooloo. yesterday afternoon. when a case fell on…

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Fatal Collision Motorist Before, Court

The Sun · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 12

The sequel to the motor smash at Campsie on Saturday, when Gordon Lionel Cheers, of Auburn, was killed, was heard in the Burwood Police…

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Motor Fatality Driver O'hara Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 11

As a sequel to the motoring mishap by which Gordon Cheers, aged 35, of 16 Edgar Street. Auburn, was fatally injured at Canterbury on Saturday…

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Nearly Drowned Rescue Near Nielsen Park

Evening News · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 3

A youth named Jack Henry Saford, who lives in Tri[?] Point, performed a [?]…

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Injured with Gelignite. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 14

John Farrell, while at Droney's Bridge, eight miles from town, had half a plug if gelignite in each hand. He threw one plug into the river, and was about to cast the other, when…

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Peculiar Fatality Explosion in a Well Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 9

A sensational accident occurred on the Cracow station, when a station hand. James Book, lost his fife, whilst a. companion. Ernest Hamilton, was…

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"Firemen's Peggy" Shipboard Fatality

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1923 · page 7

The City Coroner (Mr. Jamleson) was surprised to learn to-day that despise their strenuous work, ship's firemen generally live to an old age, and enjoy…

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Boy Drowned in River Goulburn

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1923 · page 3

Harvey Alexander McCallum, aged 16, who lived with his aunt, Miss S. J. McCallum, in Clifford-street, was drowned last night in a hole in the…

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To Save Sister Girl's Plucky Attempt Pymble Fatality

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1923 · page 10

The story of a little girl's brave attempt to save her sister's life was told at the Coroner's Court to-day at the inquest on Bessie Ilene Addison,…

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