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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

4,393 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 220

Tennis Player Injured Mishap at White City

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 11

At White City courts yesterday Miss Barbara Wise, who represented Lithgow in the country carnival, fell on some concrete stops, and broke her…

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Miner Crushed Colliery Fatality Heavy Fall of Coal. Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 5

THE mining industry claimed another victim to-day. Billett a miner employed at Aberdare Central colliery,…

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Injured by Falling Tree. Ambulance Men's Difficult Climb

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

Officers of the St. George Ambulance Brigade are becoming accustomed to [?]ifficult and hazardous jobs, particularly in the area south of George's River…

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Farmer Injured. Struck by Falling Back of Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

A serious accident occurred at he Ballimore (N.S.W.) railway station during wheat-stacking operations on Wednesday. While Mr. George…

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Motoring Accidents Many Deaths Week-end's Heavy Toll

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 13

A woman and a boy were killed, and five other persons injured, by a motor car in which they were riding, falling over a cliff at Redwood Pass,…

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Lady Coghlan Accident While Ski-ing LONDON, Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 1

THE Australian Press Association has received a message from Berne, saying that Lady Coghlan, wife of the New South Wales Agent-…

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DERAILMENT. Engine Crashes into Dead-end. Bankstown Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 8

After running past a dead-end and crashing through the buffer stops, a locomotive at Bankstown last night left the rails completely…

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Mental Patient's Accident

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 8

A mental patient from Gladesville, Henry Fletcher, was knocked down last night by a motor car, which was being backed down Wylde-street, from…

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Racecourse Accident

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

At the Moorefield races last Saturday Oswell Brown, jockey, residing at Randwick, had one of his legs jambed by another rider while competing in an…

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Wallacia Drowning Fatality

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 2

The district coroner (Mr. Arthur Judges) opened an inquest on Tuesday into the death of Cyril Lonsdale, who was drowned in the Nepean River, at…

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Cyclist Injured Collision With Sulky

The Sun · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 6

Frederick Thos. Wright, aged 15, of Wanstead- avenue, Undercliffe, was thrown off a push bicycle in Undercliffe- road, last night, after collision…

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Three Injured Motor Cycle In Collision Smash at Summer Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 11

Three people were injured, one seriously, when two motor cycles collided opposite the Western Suburbs Ambulance Station at…

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Tuggerah Railway Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 16

Mr. Keith T. Holland, of Seemore, writing to the editor regarding the fatality at the Tuggerah level crossing on Sunday, when a train crashed into a motor car and killed…

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A Cycle Collision

Evening News · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 1

A collision occurred between two motor cycles near the Summer Hill Ambulance Station last night. H. H. Darrough, of Plymouth-Street, Enfield…

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Saved From Drowning. Maitland, Fri[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 16

Percy Gauchet (19) and his sister [?] were bathing in the Hunter River at Elderslie, when the girl got into difficulties in a strong current. The lad held his sister up,…

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Linesman Injured

The Sun · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 4

Gerald Wellwood, aged 29, a linesman, of Union- street, Lidcombe, was assisting to erect a telegraph pole in Henry- street, Five Dock, to- day when…

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Collision in Darling Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 17

The steam launch, Sydney Grange, and the motor launch, The Slip, came into collision in Darling Harbour at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The motor launch was badly fractured near the water line…

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Collision. Two Motor Cycles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 16

A collision between two motor cycles which occurred yesterday afternoon in Carltoncrescent, Marrickville, resulted in two men being taken to Lewisham Hospital. They…

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Still Unconscious Summer Hill Collision

The Sun · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 6

A motor cycle, driven by Harold H. Munro, of Fraser- street, Marrickville, collided with a motor- cycle, with sidecar attached, driven by Arthur E…

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Cyclists Injured West Maitland

The Labor Daily · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 5

Cecil Cleake had Walter Cann, two residents of Paterson, were proceeding in the direction of Gresford last big [?] a motor cycle and side-car…

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