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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

4,648 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 233

Winchman Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

Michel O'Conner [?] a winchman, [?] was injured while a work [?]heading the steamship Barton Maclay." at [?] Bay…

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Regatta Tragedy. a Youth Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

When the wash from racing motor-boats competing in the Prince of Wales Bay regatta on the harbor at Hobart (Tas.), on Saturday, struck a…

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Railway Fatality. Shunting in the Dark

The Propeller · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 1

An inquest was held at the Coroner's Court last Monday concerning the death of Samuel Steele, aged 37 years, a railway guard, who was killed at Hurstville…

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Fatal Collision. Bicycle and Motor-cycle

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

A boy named Robert Middleton, aged twelve years, was killed at Paterson (N.S.W.) on Monday, as the result of a collison between a…

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Embrace of Death. Two Brothers Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

Two boys, Lindsay Gordon Kirkcaldy, aged fourteen years, and his brother, David Reginald, aged fifteen, years, were drowned in a creek…

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Another 'Bus Fatality Unknown Man Run Over

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 1

An unknown man was run over and fatally injured by a motor 'bus an Oxford Street, near Dowling Street, Dar[?]hurst, at 7 o'clock last night…

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Collision in Fog Aorangi Creeps Out Vancouver (B.c.), January 13

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 1

The cargo steamer Welsh City, bound for Australia, has been dry-docked at Astoria (Oregon) for a survey. She collided in the Columbia River during…

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Run Down. Schooner Sunk. British Destroyer in Collision. Officer Swept Overboard. LONDON, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 11

The British destroyer Wolfhound col[?]ed with the French schooner M[?]arka of Palmpol, in the English Channel this morning, and cut her in two.—Reuter…

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Costly Accidents

Arrow · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 13

Last week's southerly, in addition to being spiteful, was costly to many owners, particularly to Harry Thompson's N.S.W., which lost a mast, and…

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Motor Accident. Car Bursts Into Flames. Ulmarra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 11

When a motor car, driven by Gordon Smith, with two othor occupants, was negotiating a corner on the Coldstream-road, Ulmarra, on Wednesday evening last, the lights failed, and…

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Accidental Deaths. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 12

With a jury empanelled in each instance verdicts of accidental death were recorded at inquests concerning the death of Garnet McKeown at Hoskins and Company's new mine,…

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Fatal Accident Body Not Identified

The Sun · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 17

The body of the man who was knocked down and fatally injured by a motor 'bus in Oxford-street, Darlinghurst, last night, has not been…

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Murder Charge Withdrawn Death Was Accidental Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 15

At the conclusion of the inquest today into the death from a wound in the heart after a brawl in South Melbourne on New Year's Eve. of Thomas…

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Peculiar Accident Child May Lose Eye Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 6

Roy Wonnaport, a baby [?] received a painful injury to-night, which nay result in the loss of an eye…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

BATHURST.--When out shooting rabbits, Cyrus Stevens (16), of Roekley, was shot with a pea-rifle by a boy companion. The bullet entered his left…

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Child Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 4

GRAFTON.--Athol Addison, aged 4 years. the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Addison, of Wonoro, on the Lower Clarence, was found drowned on…

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Child Drowned. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 18

Athol Addison, aged four years and nine months, the son of Mr. W. D. Addison, of Mororo, was missed on Wednesday afternoon. When he did not return at tea hour his…

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Rope's Creek Bridge Fatality Coroner's Inquiry

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 7

Mr. A. Judges, district coroner, conducted an inquiry into the Rope's Creek Bride-fatality, when on 13th December, two people met their death…

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COLLISION. Two Goods Trains. Officials Suspended. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 17

A head-on collision between two mixed trains occurred at Goomeri Station this evening. A train bound for Wondal ran past the…

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Head-on Collision Two Trains Crash Waggons Derailed Maryborough (Q.)

The Sun · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 5

A head-on collision between two mixed trains occurred at Goomeri at about 8 o'clock last night. One train ran past the signals and…

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