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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

4,054 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 203

Death Won by Few Steps Drowning Man Crawled Along Bottom

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 11

GRAFTON, Monday. -- Tragic evidences of a desperate fight for life were revealed when the body of Stanley Keogh, thrown from…

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Man Injured. Dive Into Shallow Water

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 12

While diving at the Clifton Gardens baths on Saturday afternoon Gordon Kissick, aged 23 years, of Walker-street, Redfern, struck his head on the bottom in shallow water…

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Tisnaren in Collision. No. 1 Hold Making Water

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 4

A cable received by the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association states that the Tisnaren was in collision in the Scheldt, and…

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Level Crossing Fatality. Train Crashes Into Lorry. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 12

A fatal railway accident occurred this afternoon about five miles from Port Fairy. Mr. Malcolm McDonald, who owned a general store at Kirk's Hill, was delivering goods…

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"Rescue Your Own Patients!" Who Shall Treat the Nearly-drowned?

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 7

St. John Ambulance Brigade's demand to do all first-aid on beaches and control surf-shed casualty rooms has caused a…

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Horse Killed One, Cars 112 Accident Roll of State For 1929

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 9

Nine thousand four hundred and thirty-two persons fell victims to traffic smashes in N.S.W. last year…

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Tisnaren in Collision. No. 1 Hold Making Water

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 7

A cable received by the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association states that the Tisnaren was in collision, in the Scheldt, and…

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Storm Near Grafton. Telephonist Injured. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 16

A cyclonic storm of unusual violence occurred at Copmanhurst yesterday afternoon. Cohen and Ireland's store being unroofed. The visitation was preceded by heavy hall and…

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Tried to Drown Himself Shocked by Car Fatality Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 6

At the Wollongong Police court yesterday Stanley Rowe, 29, pleaded guilty to having attempted suicide at Wollongong on January 16…

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Two Killed in Lorry Capsize Driver Seriously Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 10

QUIRINDI, Tuesday. -- Two men were killed when a motor lorry, driven by E. D. Skinner, of Newcastle, overturned to-day when…

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Impaled on Hook. Man Terribly Injured. Woy Woy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 16

Terrible injuries were sustained by Jock McClinton, 25, of Woy Woy, to-day, when he was impaled on a hook attached to a greengrocer's cart…

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Jones Was Misquoted Aust. Xi. Scare Doctor Will Have Last Say Injured Players

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN XI. selector, Mr. R. L. Jones, contends that he has been deliberately misquoted in a morning contemporary…

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Coal Lockout Miners' Processions Broken Up by Police. Many Men Injured; Others Arrested

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 15

LAST Wednesday the police broke up four mass demonstrations of miners on the South Maitland coalfields. In each case the police attacked the miners…

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How England Held Rugby LeagueAshes Lone Try Late in the Fourth Matct Fifield Injured : Australians Battle Gallantly Short Handed : Gorman and Treeweeke at Their Top

Referee · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 11

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The Terrific Toll of Accident

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 22 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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Motor Accidents. Young Jockey Killed. Bendigo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 19

In a collision yesterday morning between a motor car and his bicycle. Frederick Charles Mitchell, 20, was killed. Mitchell was an orphan, and was an apprenticed jockey,…

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Schoolboy Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 8

In jumping from a moving motor lorry in Greenwich-road, Greenwich, Leslie Newlands, aged 9 years, of Baden Powellstreet. Artarmon, lost his footing and was…

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Level Crossing Fatality. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 8

William John Drew, aged 41, who suffered a fractured skull in a level crossing accident at Wivenhoe, on the north-west coast. On New Year's Day, died at Wynyard Hospital…

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Boy Drowned Family's Misfortunes Albury

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 21

Edward Lancelot Rodier, 13, son of Mr. T. Rodier, farmer, of Talgarno, was drowned in Dickenson Creek yesterday afternoon…

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Underneath Car But Not Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 13

Crushed beneath a capsized motor car. Constable Billett, of Liverpool, sustained a miraculous escape from serious injury…

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