Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Accidents, all years

Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

3,212 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 161

Motor Boats. Championship Contest. Chapter of Accidents. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1923 · page 10

An auspicious beginning, a chapter of accidents, and a disappointing climax describe in a few words the ninth contest for the motor boat championship of Australia at the…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Horse Killed Peculiar Accident

The Sun · Monday 26 February 1923 · page 7

A horse attached to a sulky, driven by Albert R. W. Tucker, Campbell-street, St. Peters. met its death in a peculiar way on Sunday…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Surf Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 6

Through injuries received while surf bathing at Curl Curl on Sunday morning, Stanley Arcnibald M'Nab (32), an insurance agent, living in Darling Street,…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Surfing Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 10

Stanley Archibald Macnab, 22, an insurance agent, who resided with his parents in Darling-street, Chatswood, died in the Manly Cottage Hospital yesterday afternoon as a…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Constable Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 10

Early yesterday morning the watchman at the Flemington railway yards reported to the police that he had seen a man acting suspiciously. Sergeant Lindfield, of Parramatta,…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Policeman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 6

Sergeant Lindfield, of the Parramatta police, who was accompanied by Constable Eogle, fell down the railway embankment near the Homebush…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Labourer Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 10

Charles Nash, a labourer, living in Boronia-street, Zetland. fell from a scaffolding at Toohey's Brewery yesterday morning. The Civil Ambulance conveyed him to Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Cut on Windscreen Motorist in Collision

Evening News · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 4

George Lee, 50, of Rose-street, Darlington, driving a motor car along George-street West to-day, collided with the rear of a stationary tram, and was…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Woman Injured Knocked Down by Car

Evening News · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 10

Knocked down by a motor car in Bourke-street, near Castlereagh-street, last night, Mrs. Rosanna Traylor, 71, of Hargrave-street, City, received a…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

CART & Motor Collision in City Boy's Skull Fractured

Evening News · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 5

In a collision between a cart and a motor-car in George-street West last night. Albert M'Donagh, a telegraph boy, of Mallakoff-street, Marrickville,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

District Court. (Before Judge White and a jury.) Collision at Concord

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 6

This was an action, in which Walter Thomas Maunder, of Wimbledon-street, Five Dock, claimed £400 damages from J. P. Cameron, of the police station, Burwood, for personal…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Motor Accident at Bulli Pass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 10

While crossing Bulli Pass on Saturday afternoon, Frederick Williams, 36, a railway employee, of Meeks-road, Marrickville, was thrown from a motor cycle to the roadway. He…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Aeroplane Accident Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 4

Mr. William Ballinger, a grazier, left Barcaldine on Saturday, with Lieut. Fish, in a small Armstrong 'plane, for Rockhampton, via Jericho. When…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Sea Tragedy Six Lives Lost Gallant Rescue Party Drowned MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1923 · page 9

News of a tragedy at sea, in which six lives were lost, was brought to Melbourne to-day by the Danish barque Sterna…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Drowned in Tank Accident at Wallsend NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 6

James Charles Vial, aged [?] fell into an underground tank at his home at Wallsend yesterday and was drowned it is surmised that the child was…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Late Cables. Collision at Sea. Fourteen Hours Adrift. London, Feb. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 9

A trawler has landed at Lowestoft six members of the crew of the steamer Echo after they were 14 hours adrift in an open boat in the North Sea. They had only a tin of biscuits…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Three Injured Motor Car and 'Bus Crash at North Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 4

Three persons--a man and two women --were injured at North Sydney last night. when, in attempting to avoid a collision with a motor car, an omnibus…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Motor Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 March 1923 · page 10

A motor accident occurred at the corner of West and Ernest streets. North Sydney, early last night. Three persons were injured. Their names are:—…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Drowning Fatality. Two Italian Immigrants

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 4

Two Italians named Pheani Abundi, aged twenty-four, and Burtalat Abondic, aged eighteen, were accidentally drowned in the Murray River, eight…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Injured While Surfing. Fatality at Carl curl

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 4

Stanley Archibald Macnab, aged twenty-two years, an insurance agent, who resided with his parents in Darling-street, Chatswood, died in the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →