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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

4,108 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 206

Car Explosion. Ryde Man Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 3

Owing to an explosion on the front of a motor car in Concord-road, Concord about noon on Saturday, two men jumped from the car while it was in motion…

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DISTRICT (Before Judge Rolin.) Parramatta Road Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 6

Sarah Ann Hatfield wife of George Hatfield, of Ashfield, sued Henry James O'Brien to recover £400 damages for the loss of her son. George Hatfield…

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Motor Car Driver Is Badly Injured

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 5

Robert Ward, a motor car driver, of William Street, North Sydney, was admitted to the Mater Miserimrdiai Hospital yesterday with a fractured…

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One Killed Another Injured MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 9

John Wright was killed, and Thomas O'Donoghue badly injured by a passing train between Auburn and Camberwell stations this morning. The men were…

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Harbor Collision Kooyong and Whangape Decision of Court

The Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 7

The inquiry into the collision between the steamers Whangapo and Kooyong "in Darling Harbor on February 27 was concluded in the Central…

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Car Crashes Three Injured Early Morn Episode

Evening News · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 8

Three men were injured in a motor smash at La Perouse early to-day, when, in attempting to avoid a collision with another car,…

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French Train Smash How It Happened Details of Injured London, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 1

Further particulars are now available of those injured in the derailment of the Calais-[?]train. Mrs. Hazleton (wife of…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 6

LITHGOW.--While at work at the railway coal mine this morning, Mr. Bob Morton was struck on the head by falling coal. A number of stitches had to be…

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Street Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 14

Serious injuries were sustained by a boy named Clifford Roy Colville, of Churchstreet, Drummoyne, who was struck by a motor lorry in Bridge-street, Drummoyne,…

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Collision at Leichhardt Three People Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 13

A collision, in which three people were injured, occurred shortly after 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, on the Parramatta-road, Leichhardt, near Tebbutt-street, between a motor car…

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Two Drowned In Steamer Collision Mishap in Holland London, Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 1

A message from Flushing suits that the Dutch steamer Albekerk, [?] tons bound from Antwerp to Australia, collided in the Scheldt with a Dutch…

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Railway Fatality Near Portland

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 5

LITHOOW. Wednesday. -- Pereival Edward Taylor, aged 18 years, when walking on the railway line between Caller Bullen and Portland, was…

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Casualties. Seaman Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 13

Picked up unconscious on No. 8 wharf, Mil[?]er's Point, at about 6.25 o'clock last night, [?]Willlam Coats, a seaman of the steamer [?]ysses, was taken to Sydney Hospital by…

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Marine Court. Kooyong-whangape Collision

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 4

The inquiry into the collision on February 27, between the steamers Kooyong and Whangape was concluded yesterday…

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Error of Judgment Whangape-Kooyong Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 2

The court of inquiry which investigated the circumstances of the Whangape-Kooyong collision in Darling Harbor on February 27 yesterday found that the…

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Blasting Fatality. Two Men Killed. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 11

As the result of an explosion in a quarry at Dunback (Otago), David McMillan, a single man, and Ernest Cox, a married man, died from injuries, and William McIntosh, single,…

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Motor Smash Taxi Hits Post Three Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 5

A taxi-cab, with five passengers, was proceeding along Bunnerong Road, [?] Perouse, at an early hour yesterday, when a car, coming in the opposite…

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Whangape's Master Makes a Mistake Marine Court's Decision in Harbor Collision -- Error of Judgment -- No Costs Allowed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 3

On February 27 the Mellwraith. MeEacharn steamer Kooyong (2296 tons), and the Union S.S. Company's Whangape (2930 tons) collided in Darling…

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Gales and Floods in New Zealand Rivers Overflow and Roads Blocked -- Extensive Losses of Property and Stock. a Man Drowned

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.). Wed. -- A terrifle southerly gate is raging over the greater portion of the Dominion Shipping is held up at most ports…

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Crime and Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 March 1924 · page 4

The licensing of firearms has had little apparent affect in restricting their use to legitimate purposes. On the other hand, evidence is not wanting…

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