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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

4,054 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 203

Engaged Couple Drowned West Maitland

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 13

In the Morpeth drowning fatality on Saturday, Richard Watson, 21, and Alice Ryan, 26, the victims, could not swim, but were wading about in water…

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Drowned in the Swan Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 1

Ian Collins 7, holidaying from the country was drowned while bathing with other lads in the Swan River this afternoon. The little fellow went in…

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Constable Badly Injured at Narrabeen

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

..Just as Constable Huckings, of Collaroy, stepped out on to the roadway in Ramsay Street, Narrabeen, last night to stop a motor car he was…

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Baseballer Injured. Heat Affects Players

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 12

Baseballers say that Prince Edward Park, Carlton, is becoming a "hoodoo" ground for them. There, last Saturday week, Leslie Mathews,…

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Gave Life for Her Sweetheart Tragic Double Drowning in Hunter River

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

MAITLAND, Sunday.--Answering the world-old call of mate to mate, Alice Ryan, 26, lost her life in a vain attempt to save…

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Sydney Men Injured at Lithgow Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 6

Harry Nelson, jockey, residing at 28 Fitzroy Street, Sydney, was riding a horse in Caperico races yesterday when the animal bolted off the course into the…

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Man and Woman Drowned. Hunter River Tragedy. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 11

Alice Maud Ryan, 26, and Richard William Watson, 21, were drowned in the Hunter River near Queen's wharf. Morpeth, yesterday afternoon…

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Struck by His Boat Man Drowned at Grafton Grafton

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 6

The body of Stanley Keough, who was drowned when thrown out of a speed boat in the Clarence River last night, was found this morning. A…

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Cyclist Injured On Way to Work Crashed Into Car

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

Injured in a collision with a car, Albert E. Jerrett (45), of Provincial-street, Auburn, who was riding a push bike, was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital on…

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Downed in Attempt [?]O Save Friend Duble Fatality [?]Ng Woman and Man [?]Odies Recovered Maitland

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 1

[?] attempt by a girl to rescue [?]ung man, who could not swim, [?]ted in a double drowning [?]ity in the Hunter River at…

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Woman Dragged by Car to Death Wheel on Chest Four People May Not Live Injured List

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 1

Two people were killed and four others may die as the result of the week-end motor toll…

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Thrown From Sulky Blacktown Accident Horse Runs Amok

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

Plunging headlong down Richmond-road Blacktown last week and throwing two women from the sulky to which it was attached, a horse, collided with a…

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The Terrific Toll of Accident

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

Forty years ago the United States had, practically, no statistics, and in this respect Britain then led the world. To-day the U.S.A. Bureau of Statistics is the most perfectly organised system of its kind in the world, and supplies such a wealth of detail that with a…

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Tragic Accident. At Shooting Party. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 11

Joseph Amos, of Bowral, was accidentally shot dead while on a shooting expedition in the Bundanoon gullies on Saturday afternoon Amos, who was with a party, exchanged his…

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Fatal Road Collision

The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 21

Albury, Tuesday.--A collision on the Albury-Wangaratta-road resulted in one man being killed and two others injured…

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Jockey Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 11

The pony apprentice, J. Carroll, suffered a fracture of a shoulder when he fell from Greenwich, near his employer's stables, in South Kensington. Carroll…

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Motorship Tisnaren. Damaged in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 11

Cable advice was received yesterday by the Sydney Marine Undeiwriters' Association that the Swedish motorship Tlsnaren, bound from Australian ports to Hamburg, had been…

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Caught by Lift Messenger Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 8

ATTEMPTING to jump out of a moving lift in Challis House, Angel Place, City to-day, Walter Greig, 14, a messenger, of Parr-stret, Rockdale, was…

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Trench Caves in Laborer Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 5

WHEN portion of a french in which be was working cased in at the Australian Glass Works. Euston-road, Alexandria to-day. James Dowling 32…

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Cyclist Injured Handle Bars Caught

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 8

ARTHUR Johnstone 41, laborer of Croydon-road, Hurstiville, met with an unusual accident while riding a motor cycle along City-road, Darington,…

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