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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

4,054 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 203

Missing Boy Drowned Lost on Saturday Fate Not Known Until Yesterday

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 1

Though an eight-year-old boy was drowned at Parramatta on Saturday afternoon, the fatality was not disscovered until yesterday…

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Unlucky Week-end Many Injured in Car Smashes at Perth

Daily Pictorial · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 5

PERTH, Sunday.--Over a dozen accidents occurred in Perth during the week-end. A motor truck overturned, and…

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Sailors Injured. on Cruiser Durban. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Feb. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 12

The Admiralty states that during a severe and sudden storm at Nassau, in the Bahamas, on Monday last, violent seas broke over the forecastle and upper deck of the cruiser H.M.S…

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Toll of Motor. Four Die Cyclist Impaled on Shaft Injured List

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 1

Two youths were killed in New South Wales, and two persons were fatally hurt in Melbourne motor smashes over the week…

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Severe Storm. Buildings Unroofed. Two People Injured. Damage at Molong. Molong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 12

Two people were severely injured, many others suffered shock, at least two buildings were unroofed, many windows were smashed, and gardens were battered, during a…

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Cars Crash Heap-on Newcastle Road Seven Injured, One Fatally Maitland

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 1

SEVEN people were injured, one fatally, in a head-on collision between two cars on the Newcastle road, near Four Mile Creek, at 11…

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Blown Up Fo'castle Ripped Away Four Injured Horse Blinded by Floating Fire Newcastle

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 9

With preliminary rumblings, followed by an explosion as though a battleship had let loose a broadside, the oil-tanker British Honor loaded with 4100 tons of oil ail ready to be pumped into the Commonwealth Oil Refineries sheds at Honeysuckle Point…

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Oil Tanker at Newcastle an Inferno 100-ft. Flames Terrifying Explosion Dramatic Rescue Peril of Watching Thousands Two Injured Nfwcastle

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 1

FLAMES leaped 100 feet into the air when the oil tanker, British Honor, suddenly became a blazing inferno at the oil wharf, at Wickham to-day. While a wall of flame ringed the bridge, and the foremast…

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Police Gun Wife Shot "Was Accidental" Concord Tragedy

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 7

MRS. Eileen Mabel Ready, 20, who was shot through the stomach at her home in M'K[?]c-street, West Concord, yesterday…

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Accidents at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 16

Two men were injured to-day when a surf boat overturned at Redhead carnival. One of them, Tom Taylor, was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital suffering from concussion…

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Motor Accidents. Youth Killed at Rockdale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 12

David Chard, aged 19 years, of Beauchampstreet, Marrickville, while riding pillion on a motor cycle, in Rockdale, on Saturday afternoon was killed instantly when the cycle came…

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Woman Shot. In Critical Condition. Accident at Concord

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 12

Eileen Mabel Brady, 29 years, was admitted to Western Suburbs Hospital in a critical condition yesterday, with a bullet wound through the lower part of her body…

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Two Shots City Dentist Wounded Vaucluse Incident Told Police It Was Accident

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 9

Two shots rang out in a room at the rear of a house in Village Lower-road, Vaucluse, this afternoon, and Sydney Castles Ratcliffe, of Wentworth-road, Vaucluse, whose surgery is in Daking House, Pitt-street, collapsed,…

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Accidents at Surf Gala Redhead Club Carnival NEWCASTLE,.Sunday

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 6

A NUMBER of accidents marred the Redhend Surf Club's third annual carnival held at the local beach yesterday…

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Boy Drowned. in Crowded Baths

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 8

The story of how John Ryan, 15, of Venusstreet, Gladesville, was drowned in a crowded bathing enclosure at Meadowbank Park, on the afternoon of Sunday, February 9, was…

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Motor Accidents. Cars in Collision. One Man Killed. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 15

When two motor cars collided on the Newcastle-road, William Jewell, of Wickham, had his skull fractured, and died later in hospital…

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Two Motorists Injured. Merriwa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 12

On Saturday, on the Cassills-road, Leo Englebretch and W. C. Jones had a narrow escape from death when the car in which they were driving somersaulted over an…

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Youth Injured in Dive. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 12

Leslie Joseph Balcombe, 16, struck the bottom when he dived into the Hunter River, and fractuied his left arm…

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Man Injured in Colliery. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 12

J. Priest, of Homeville, was injured in a fall of coal at Toll Bar Colliery at Rutherford. He received severe abrasions to his back and right foot…

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Miner Injured by Coal Slide Maitland

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 6

While working in the Toll Bar colliery, Rutherford, to-day. J. Priest, of Ada Street, Homeville, had his back and right ankle injured by a fall of coal Maitland…

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