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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Ambulances Busy During Week-end Fatal Diving Accident at Parramatta--young Man Dives Into Two Feet of Water. Many Minor Mishaps

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 February 1924 · page 5

A fatal diving accident occurred at Parramatta Park early on Saturday afternoon. John Hewitt [?], of Cardigan Street…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 February 1924 · page 5

TAREE.--A pellet from a rifle bullet rebounded from a shooting gallery, and struck the proprietor, Mr. Madden, in the right eye. The pellet could not be…

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Car Accident. Country People Injured

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 5

A serious motor accident befel Mr. Samuel Williams of Alloway Bank. Bathurst, Miss Williams daughter and Mr. Norman Suttor also of Bathurst…

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Jockey Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 2

White riding Grey Habit in a gallop on the cinders at kenslagton this morning J. Lawington. who is his attached to W. Matthews stable. had his left leg badly…

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Boxing Butcher Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 10

Eddie Butcher, who was to have mot Louis Plees at the Stadium next Saturday, has withdrawn owing to having Injured his right hand whilst training curing the week-end. His place…

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Went After Ducks and Nearly Drowned

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 5

BROKEN HILL. Monday. A Paywe a popular member of the North Broken Hill Football Club, went duck shooting with a party on Saturday last to Like…

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Police Inspector Injured. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 10

Police Inspector P.J. Byrne was run over [?] a sulky driven by Norman Palmer at 10.30 o'clock last night. The inspector was walking away from the police station with…

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Car in Flames Driver Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 7

Frederick [?] of [?]-street North Sydney was driving a motor [?] along [?] Waterfall. yesterday. and when near the [?]…

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Head-on Crash Passenger and Coal Trains Three Injured Adamstown Accident NEWCASTLE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 7

The passenger train for Belmont, which left Newcastle at 1.50 p.m. today, ran head-on into a loaded coal trian from Dudley to Port Waratah,…

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Fall Under Tram. Boy Fatally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 9

A boy named Norman Veness, 6 years of age, of Beach-steeet, Coogee, waa run over by a tram near the Coogee terminus at about 5 p.m. yesterday and fatally injured. Both…

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Car Somersaults Three Passengers Injured MOREE

Evening News · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 7

While Mr. F. King. his wife, young baby, and the child a nurse were travelling from Barraba. to Bingara by car the two front tyres blew out coming…

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Trains Collide. No One Injured. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 9

A passenger train, procceding from New castle to Belmont, came into collision with a coal train at the intersection of the Redhead colliery line at 2.40 o'clock this afternoon…

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Tut's Sarcophagus Crack Found in Lid Ancient Accident London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 9

Mr. Howard Carter made an unexpected discovery, says the Luxor correspondent of "The Times," while he was examining Tutankhamen's…

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Accident Victim and Compensation Application to Court for Continuance of Pay -- Judge Defers Derision Till To-day

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 3

After reserving his Judgment, with the intention of making an interim award to protect the applicant in an attraction case yesterday. Judge…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 2

ALBURY. -- A sulky driven by Mr. W. Perrin, of Corowa, capsized in Wodonga on Sunday, and the occupants were thrown out. Both shafts of the sulky were…

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Thrown From Cart Accident at Waverley

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 8

A collision between a tram and a cart in Cowper Street, Waverley, yesterday afternoon, caused William Willis, aged 38, the driver of the cart, who lives at…

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Roscan Injured Fall on the Road

The Sun · Wednesday 6 February 1924 · page 4

The connections of the three-year-old Roscan had a stroke of bad luck yesterday. It was intended to send the gelding to Menangle Park, but when crossing the road…

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Baby Is Unhurt Others Are Injured

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 February 1924 · page 3

WE[?] Tuesday. -- While motoring it[?] to Bre[?]fast Mr. [?] to meet with [?]accident…

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Fatal Lightning Little Girl Victim Another Injured MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 February 1924 · page 12

During the storm which broke over Pascoe Valley to-day an outhouse, in which two little girls were sheltering, was struck by lightning. One of the…

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Melbourne-sydney Record Mishaps in Collision With Mob of Sheep on Road

Referee · Wednesday 6 February 1924 · page 15

The attempts by F. Delia Valle, accompanied by L. Gordon (a mechanic), In a 9.45 h.p. Fiat car, on the Melbourne to Sydney record on Saturday, was…

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