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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Four Injured in Brisbane Smash Car Skids in Mud Brisbane

Evening News · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 9

FOUR people were injured when two cars came into c[?] in Stan[?]ey-street south Brisbane, last night. The injured are:—…

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Five Workmen Buried Beneath Four Tons of Clay One Killed; Others Injured Colleagues Claw at Earth with Bare Hands; Desperate Rescue Efforts Reservoir Bank Collapses

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 2

One minute after the foreman had inspected the work of levelling the base of a sixteen-feet reservoir excavation at Lane Cove Road, Killara, yesterday afternoon, the whole tide caved in, and, with a terrific roar,…

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Fatal Shooting. Suggestion of Accident. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 15

Detectives are still investigating the fatal shooting of John Hyland, near Perenjori, on February 4, and no further charge has been preferred against Edward Patrick Minorgan,…

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Shooting Gallery Accident. Guyra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 12

The eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Bell, North Brook. Guyra, was struck by a pea-rifle bullet from a shooting gallery. The bullet entered one of the girl's…

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Drowned in Murray [?]

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 7

A well-known [?] Howard Procks 23 of [?] a son of Mr [?] of [?] in the River Murray, near…

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Missing Man. Believed Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 19

Mosman police are still dragging near Balmoral ferry Wharf for the body of Mr. ColleyPriest, of Cremorne, who is believed to have been drowned. Clothing subsequently…

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Train Accident. Carriage Derailed. Collision Narrowly Averted. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 15

A carriage attached to an empty electric train was derailed and overturned in the Fllnders-street railway yards this evening. Much alarm was caused by the accident, which…

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Traffic Blocked. Tram Anp Car Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 19

When a motor car collidod violently with a tram near the corner of Castlereagh and King streets yesterday morning, the impact was so great that the two vehicles became Jammed…

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Tram and Lorry. Collision on Slippery Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 16

Owing to the slippery condition of the rails a tram, which was descending a slight incline in Lane Cove-road above the North Sydney Post-office, refused to answer to the brakes,…

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Officer Suspended Wagga Rail Collision Junee

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 10

PENDING an inquiry into a collision between a goods and two trucks at Wagga on Monday, the night officer at that station has been suspended…

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Boy Fatally Injured. Lake Cargellico

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 16

Reg. Townsend, a youth, was thrown from a motor lorry on Sunday afternoon through the vehicle striking a deep rat in the road. He celyed injuries from which he died…

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Three Injured Crash in Melbourne Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 10

Three persons were injured when a motor cycle and an ice-cream cart collided in Balaclava-road, Caulfield, last night…

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Three Injured Smash at St. Kilda Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 6

RETURNING from St. Kilda Beach last night, the wheels of an [?]cream cart caught in the tram tracks. The vehicle slewed round…

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Woman Injured Story Oe Razor Man for Trial

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 9

A CASE in which it is alleged, a man attacked a woman with a ra[?] was heard before Mr. Camphin, [?] at the central Court…

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Injured by Lifting. International Move to Fix Limit of Weights

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 4

The restriction of weight-lifting in industry is one of the important questions to be discussed by the International Labor Conference in the coming year, and the…

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Shooting Accident. Boy Fatally Wounded. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 16

Alexander Gray, aged 16, accidentaily shot himself this morning, and died almost immediately. With his father and his brother-in-law,…

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Country News. Fatal Sawmill Accident. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1928 · page 16

John Turner, aged 45, was working at a circular saw at Parsons and Company's timber yards' when a piece of wood struck him over the heart. He was killed practically…

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Nambucca--Tiga Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1928 · page 16

The Court of Marine Inquiry into the Nambucca-Tiga collision has been postponed until to-morrow. MALOJA, P. and O. R.M.S., is scheduled to…

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Harbour Collision Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1928 · page 16

A court of marine inquiry into the collision between the coastal steamer Nambucca and the oil lighter Tiga, which occurred off Goat Island on January 12, will be held in the District Court at noon…

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Painter Injured

Evening News · Thursday 16 February 1928 · page 7

WILLIAM Lester, 44, painter, of Cook-road. Centennial Park, was working on a scaffold on the seventh flour of David Jones' new building to-day…

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