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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

3,212 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 161

Accident to Shipping Man

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 10

Owing to a panel of a verandah roof in George-street collapsing yesterday afternoon, Captain Richard Phillips, general manager of the Pacific Steamship Company, Ltd., met with…

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Accident at Arncliffe

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 1

A woman, with a baby in a perambulator, was jumped on at Arncliffe last Thursday afternoon by a horse which shied at a passing-tram. Mrs…

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Seaman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 7

Arthur Knudson, who was employed as a fireman on the collier Duckenfield, now lying in the Parramatta River, near the Mortlake Gas Works, fell…

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Fatal Collision Motor and Spring Cart Two Killed; Four Injured Brisbane

The Sun · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 6

A motor car containing eight persons collided with a spring cart on the Old Cleveland-road, Brisbane, late last night. The driver of the car. Mr. Frank…

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The Rooty Fatality

Nepean Times · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 5

Mr. Arthur Judges, coroner, held an inquest this week concerning, the death of Sydney Thomas Cooper (35), of Wentworlthville, who was killed on the…

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Man Drowned Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 8

Francis George Luttgens was drowned while attempting to leave the shelter at Mordialloc Creek in his motor-boat…

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Claim for £15,000 the Yarra-muscoota Collision Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 8

Arising out of the collision between the American barque Muscoota and the Norwegian steamer Yarra, which occurred oft Wilson's Promontory…

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At Albion Park Yetmah Surprises a Favorite Injured

Evening News · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 5

BRISRANE. Saturday. The [?] Park Jockey Club's meeting [?] was wall attended in [?] weather…

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Motor Smash Two Killed Seven Injured Brisbane

Evening News · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 6

A sensational motor smash, which resulted in two deaths occurred an the outskirts of Brisbane last night…

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Car Hits Post Smash at Woy Woy Boy Injured

The Sun · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 6

Early this morning a motor car, containing three passengers, struck a telegraph post near Ettalong beach, Woy Woy. A boy was badly hurt,…

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Accident Pay Seamen Force Issue

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 5

The Federated Seamen's Union is insisting that the Commonwealth Navigation Act provisions regarding the payment of sick and injured seamen…

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Drowned While Burning

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 January 1923 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.—Mrs. Knapton left a fancy dress ball at a village near Frome. While walking home in a costume…

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Injured Bird

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 January 1923 · page 7

Pale Hands finds a little bird: "Several days ago I was walking up from Rockdale with one of my friends when we both heard a little bird squcaking…

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Diving Fatality Warren

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1923 · page 4

While swimming in the Macquarie River, at Warren, Edward Azar, aged 22 years, dived on to a submerged log. Other bathers rescued him, but he died…

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Dashed to Pieces Man and Woman Killed Six Others Injured—Two in Serious Condition

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 January 1923 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday.—Two persons lost their lives in a motor car accident last night. They are:…

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Accidental Truth

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 January 1923 · page 17

The two couples lived in the one flat, and by a strange coincidence each niar.'s name was James, and each wife's name Mary. One husband died, and…

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Gauze in Abdomen Negligence Kills Patient a "Recognised" Accident London

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1923 · page 1

George Nichols, a former soldier, urderwent an operation in July on his abdomen at a Ministry of Pensions hospital, near Liverpool. He…

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Boy Swimmer Smashes World's 880 Yards Record Eight Hurt Serious Motor Accident Overturned Car Newcastle

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1923 · page 5

Eight persons were hurt-- one very badly-- when a motor car overturned on the Heddon-Greta road to-day. The motor car, which contained a…

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Railway Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 10

Gladys Stockton, 14, who resided with her parents near Liverpool, was killed by the second division of the Melbourne express at the Casula railway station yesterday…

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Surfer Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 4

Charles Henry Leslie (23), of 109 Phillip Street. Sydney, was drowned while swimming off the rocks at the south end of Bondi Bay yesterday…

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