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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

4,108 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 206

Year's Fatalities. Increase in Motor Accidents. Coroneer's Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 9

The annual return of the City Coroner, which was issued on Thursday, shows that 65 persons were killed in motor accidents during 1923, as against 57 in 1922. A greater number…

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Man Drowned Bathurst

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 4

Herbert James Moran, aged 41, was drowned in Campbell's River, near Bunnamagoo Station, at Rockley. The deceased had been employed for the…

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Motor Smash Car and Lorry Collide Boy Injured

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 2

A serious motor smash occurred in Forest-road, Arncliffe, last night, as the result of which a motorist has been arrested and charged…

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Child Injured Back a Mass of Bruises Man Arrested West Maitland

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 2

Owen Dawson Green, aged 29, was before the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day charged with assaulting Francis White, a boy of 5 years…

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Motor 'Bus Crash Three Injured Oxford Street Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6

A motor-bus crashed into a telegraph polo in Oxford Street. Waverley, yesterday afternoon. The vehicle was badly damaged and three persons were in jured…

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Motor Collision. Car Driver Arrested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9

A motor car collided with a lorry in Forest-road, Arncliffe on Saturday night, and a passenger of the car, Richard Watson, 15 years of age, of Anderson-road, Mortdale, was…

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Cars in Collision Driver Arrested

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6

When a motor lorry, laden with furniture, and a motor oar collided in Forest Road, Arncliffe, on Saturday night, a boy, Richard Watson, 13, of Moridale…

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Two Boys Drowned. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 10

Hansen Brady and Jack Planner, two Henty schoolboys, were drowned last evening in a dam on Henty Common. They had been playing about the dam with…

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Danger at a Bridge Four Men Injured. Series of Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 8

No fewer than four instances ot men being injured through falling through the railway bridge near the Rookwood cemetery have occurred within five nights…

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Queensland Floods Mailman Drowned CHARLEVILLE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 5

Fur some days the Bulloo River has been in high Hood from Adavale to the New South Wales border. George Sheehan, a mailman, after…

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FELL 25 FEET Bricklayer Injured

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 10

While working on the scaffolding of the new Masonic Hall. Double Bay to-day, Joseph Fleming, aged 35, a bricklayer, living in Station-street,…

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Seaman Drowned Swimming at Night MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6

The body of Thomas Connolly, a seaman, of Bench Street, Port Melbourne, was discovered on Saturday floating in the bay…

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Fell Over Cuff Taxi-driver Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6

Serious injuries were received by Ernest Hellier. a taxi-driver, of Crown Street, Surry Hills, when he fell over a cliff at Coogee early yesterday morning…

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£1,000,000 FIRE Los Angeles's Playground 40 Firemen Injured Los Angeles, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 1

The Ocean Park at Los Angeles, California's greatest amusement playground, was burned, the loss involved being £1,000,000…

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Railway Accident. Attempting to Board a Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9

Attempting to board a moving train at Penshurst shortly after 4.30 yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Lenora Edwards, of Morehead-street, Waterloo, missed her footing and fell…

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Bad Luck with Horses Two Accidents in Two Days

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9

When William Harbon, of Chapman-street, Moore Park, was riding a horse down Bourke-street, yesterday morning, the horse became restive…

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Darling Harbour Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 10

The city coroner, Mr. Jamieson, yesterday found that George Edward Mattison died on board the steamer Dilkera at Darling Harbour on January 3 from injuries accidentally…

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Surfing Fatality Auckland

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 8

Newcastle holiday-makers who were bathing near Whakatane were carried out to sea by the undertow. Mrs. Arthur Hall was drowned, and the…

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Railway Porter Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 10

At about 2.50 p.m. yesterday Robert Hollingsworth, 22, railway porter, residing at Belmore-street, Sutherland, fell from a platform at Darling Harbour, and sustained…

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A Station Fatality Lithgow. Tuesday.[?]

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 4

W. Barry. an employes on [?] magoo Station. near Rockley.complained of illness.and was told to lie down. At tea time he was absent…

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