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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

4,108 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 206

Three Horses Fall Accident at Trots

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 10

What might have been a most serious accident was narrowly averted in the Trotting Club Handicap at Epping yesterday…

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Found Drowned Bega

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 1

Patrick Kirby, single, a member of a well-known family, was found drowned in a lagoon near his home…

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Motor Accident. Cae Burned. Several People Injured. Scone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 13

A sensational motoring accident occurred on the Seone-Muswelibrook road last night, when a car, driven by Mr. John Woodloy, of Tamworth, containing Mrs. Magon, two young…

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Lift Crashes. Man Fatally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 14

One man was totally injured, and another very seriusly injured in lift acoident in the Monrch Electric Light Company's building in Renwick-street Redform yesterday…

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Injured at Cricket. Taree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 14

Whilst acting as umpire in a cricket match at Lansdowae, about six months ago. Mr. Robert Tyrie indulged in a "strike" in between wickets, when a ball bit him on the…

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Seventeen Drowned Big Steamer Wrecked LONDON, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 1

The steamer Mora went ashore at Cape St. Vincent (Portugal) and became a total wreck. Seventeen of the crew of 29 were…

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Head-on Collision. Motor Lorry and Cycle. Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 14

At about 10 o'clock on Saturday night; Robert Deering, an employee of the local power station, had a head-on collision with a motor lorry on the…

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Knocked Down by Lorry Little Girl Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 9

Joyce Egan, aged 6, living at Regent Street, Faddington. was knocked down by a motor lorry while she was crossing Oxford Street, near Regent Street, early last…

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Lift's Fatal Fall One-Man Killed Another Badly Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 9

A tragic lift accident, occurred at the factory of the Monarch Electric Motors, Ltd., in Renwick Street, Renferd, early yesterday morning…

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Car Capsizes and Then Explodes Man and Woman Seriously Injured Near Scone--Caught Under Burning Wreckage

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 5

SCONE. Tuesday.--As a resuIt of a motor car capsizing on the Scone Muswellbrook road last night, John Woodley and Doris Stores, 20, were…

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Jockey's Luck Saved by His Cap Gosford Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

But for his skull cap, Jockey A. Calderwood, who rede Irene Hatan in the Novice Handicap at Gosford yesterday, would have been seriously…

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Redfern Lift Accident

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 14

In yesterday's "Sun," in a report of a lift accident at Redfern, in which two men were injured, it was stated that the accident occurred at the…

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Frightful Injuries in Unusual Accident Man Carried Along on Suthy Shaft - Falls Under Horse Fect

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 5

Norman S[?] of as Surrey Street P[?] was an [?] or un[?] which took place a C[?] Street yesterday…

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Pea Rifle Accident to a Mudgee Youth little Fals--Bullet Passes Through Both Arms--Lads Were Out Shooting Rabbits

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 5

MUDGEE, Tuesday-- Donald Devlen a young man. while rabbit shooting with other lads at Kandos, had narrow escape from being mortally…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 6

ALBURY.--Mr. P. Moran, a miner, whilst timbering at the Shamrock gold mine at Harrietville, met with a painful accident, when a quantity of rock fell…

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Shunting Accident. Moree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 14

Mr. J. D. Davis, who was on a visit to Moree undergoing treatment at the bore baths, was crossing the line shortly after 8 o'clock this morning at a point opposite…

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Drowned While Bathing. Bundarra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 10

Neville McGinty, aged 11 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell McGinty, of Notth Bundarra, was drowned last night while bathing in Gwydir River, Bundarra, just above the big…

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Railway Bridge Fatality Valley Heights

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 4

The body of a young man, since identified as J. Hansen, about 27 years of age, a returned soldier, employed as " kitchenman at the Springwood Boys"…

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Grasped Live Wires Mechanic Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 5

Catching hold of two live wires at the top of au electric light pole at Manly yesterday afternoon, Frederick Dinney, aged 23, a mechanic, received a severe shock,…

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Found Drowned in Tank. the Rock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 10

Edward Hudson, aged 56 years, was found drowned in a tank on the property of an Indian named Sharne Singh, of Pine Grove, 17 miles from the Rock. The deceased was an…

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