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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

4,108 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 206

Royal Guard Injured at Richmond

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 21

The Richmond Pony Club's meeting yesterday was marred by an accident after the Trial Stakes. Royal Guard was first to leave the machine…

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Prisoners Fight. One Badly Injured. Boggo-road Gaol. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 17

Further details of the trouble at the Boggoroad Gaol on Christmns Eve were disclosed to-day, when George Turnor, alias James, was charged with unlawfully wounding Frank…

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Three-in-one Ladder Avoids Accidents Saves Time

The World's News · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 21

Folding in the centre, a ladder is being made that can be used either in straight or step position, and as a trestle. Extended or folded, the two sections are securely fastened…

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Accident with an Axe. Adelong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 14

Leslie Craig, employed at the Commercial Hotel, was cutting wood in a small shed when the axe touched the roof, deviating its course, and struck his foot squarely, severing…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 17

ADELONG.--Leslie Craig, a young man employed at the Commercial Hotel, was cutting wood in a small shed, when, the axe hit the root, descended on his foot,…

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Injured by Detonator Parkes

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1924 · page 2

Frank Grant picked up a detonator from some rubbish near the scene of a recent fire and too it home He obtained a needle and began poking at…

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Bitten to Death by Shark Hideous Fatality at Head of Parramatta River Twelve Feet Monster Attacks Boy of Fifteen Heroic Victim Dies in His Pal's Arms

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1924 · page 7

One of the worst shark tragedies in the history of New South Wales occurred yesterday afternoon in unusually pathetic circumstances almost at the head of the Parramatta River. A twelve-foot shark attacked a boy of 15, tore the flesh of his right leg…

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Drowning Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 9

NARRANDERA.--George North (23), of Griffith, who was staying with Mr. W. Noble, went down to the river with Mr. George Noble. Noble swam across…

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Motor Collision. Three People Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 11

Three people were taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital by the Newtown-Marrickville Ambulance as the result of a collislon between a sulky and a motov lorry in the Canal-road,…

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Three Injured

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 15

As a result of a collision between a motor lorry and a sulky in Canal-road, St, Peters, at 6.20 a.m. yesterday three persons wore injured, and…

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River Fatality. Narrandera

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 13

A drowning case occurred in the Murrumbidgee River on Thursday. Georgo North, a resident of Griffith, went to the river with a youth named Geo. Noble. North, who could not…

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A Youth Drowned. Lockhart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 12

A youth, not long out from England, named Chas Vaughan, was occidentally drowned in a dam on the Urangeline soldiers' settlement,…

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Two Children Drowned. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 13

St. Paul's River at Royal George, 12 miles from Avocu, was the scene of a tragedy on Wednesday night whon a boy and a girl lost their lives by drowning. The…

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Boat Upset Man Drowned in Hawkesbury

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 15

After a boat had been swamped and overturned at Hawkesbury River yesterday, one of the occupants, Roy Tennyson Donnelly, aged 38, who was…

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Rough Seas Girl Drowned MELBOURNE

Evening News · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 2

Great rolling waves swept in on all the beaches round the bay yesterday, and many bathers got into difficulties with the undertow…

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Boat Capsizes Man Drowned on Hawkesbury

Evening News · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 1

Hoy Donnelly, a native of Burrows. was drowned in the Hawkesbury River, near Brooklyn, yesterday, when a boat in which he was rowing with a party of men was upset by a…

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Country News. a Bridge Fatality. Manilla

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 12

Mark Howard, a well-known resident of Manilia, jumped or fell from Manilla Bridge on to the gravel bed of the Namoi River, 100 feet below. Howard was killed instantly…

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Boy Injured by Detonator. Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 12

Frank Grant, aged 14 yenrs, found a detonator in a heap of rubbish, and probed it with a needle. The detonator exploded, badly injuring Grant's left hand. It was found…

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Deadly Coal Detonator Explodes Fireman Injured

Evening News · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 4

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. A detonator among the cost used on the locomotive of a pionic train running between…

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Two Drowned In Sea and River MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 9

Melbourne bathers yesterday experienced the nearest approach to surf that is possible in Port Phillip Bay, and the comparatively high sea caused…

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