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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

4,108 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 206

Prince Has Recovered From His Accident

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 1

LONDON, Fed 18.-- The [?] of [?] has recovered from [?] accident…

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Train Fatality Cootamundra

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 9

Mr. Pearse, a fettler, while working with four others this morning, was run over and killed by a goods train near Nubba…

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Riding Fatality Maryborough

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 8

A horse which Roy Bernard Wort (18) was riding through the main street of Mundubbeera yesterday suddenly became fractious, and…

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Collision at the Heads

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 5

A collision occurred at Sydney shortly after daylight yesterday between the French steamer St. Joseph and the pilot steamer Captain Cook…

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Child Drowned at Clark Island

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 6

The story of a picnic to Clark Island on February 11, which ended disastrously, was told to the City Coroner, Mr. Jamieson, S.M.,…

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Collision at Heads. Saint Joseph Slightly Damaged

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 4

When entering the Heads early yesterday morning the French steamer Saint Joseph came in collision with the pilot steamer Captain Cook…

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Collision. at Sydney Heads. Pilot and French Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 8

The French steamer St. Joseph arrived at her berth in Circular Quay yesterday morning with about 20 feet of her port gunwhale damaged, as a result of a collision with the pilot steamar…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Queanbeyan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 10

A head-on collision occurred on the Yass-road, near Duntroon Military College, between two cyclists and a motor car, as a result of which one of the cyclists, Augustus Bean,…

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Remarkable Accident

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 15

In drawing a load of bricks from Ryde brickworks yesterday afternoon a valuable draught horse owned by Mr. G. Hatton, carrier, Ryde…

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The Fall of a Lift Kills a Young Man Lifting Chain Breaks--Cape Fall. Two Floors--Verdict of Accidental Death

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 5

The death of Norman Blake Cowleaged 19, which occurred on February 12, when a lift, in course of construction, fell at premises at 53…

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Crane Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 4

Sir,--In Tuesday's issue there was another account of a dogman hurled to his death while working on one of our skyscrapers. This is the…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 8

SPRINGWCOD.--John Ernest Jones, (44) laborer, employed by the Railway Department on the new water reservoir at Springwood, was struck by a pilot…

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Fatal Collision Motor Car and Motor Cycle One Killed; One Injured KANDOS

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 4

A collision with fatal results between a motor car and a motor cycle occurred on the Rylstone Road yesterday evening…

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Girl Drowned. Treacherous Wash-out

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 4

A little girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.Farrell, of Windsor (N.S.W.), was drowned in a [?] hole in the Hawke[?] River at Win[?] on…

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Injured Workman. Compensation Rights

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 7

One of [?] employees was injured recently, while insured under the Workmen's Compensation Act, and in receipt of £2 a we[?] and keep. It is…

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The Railway Fatality Near Oatley Station

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 6

Mr. John Jamieson, City Coroner, after an inquiry held into the circumstances surrounding the death of Donald Clifford Marshall (25), found…

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Boy Knocked Down. Seriously Injured

The St George Call · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 6

About 3.30 -last Thursday week a serious accident occurred in the Boulevarde, Bamsgate. An eleven year oId boy named Gilbert Murray…

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Motor Car Crashes. Several Injured

The Propeller · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 1

A motor car, alleged to have been stolen at Darlinghurst last Saturday night, crashed over an embankment at Heathcote early on Sunday morning,…

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Cyclist Killed Collision with Car MUDGEE

Evening News · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 8

Fred Erick Dev[?] 16, riding on a motor-cycle on the road, near Rylstone, collided with a motor-car, and died late last night from injuries…

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Lip Bitten Off. Italian Dreadfully Injured

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 3

During an alternation between two Italians in a house in Wolloomooloo (Sydney) on Monday, one of the men fastened his tooth in the other's lower…

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