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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 160

Nazi Agitators in Vienna Cause Panic Women and Children Trampled on and Injured

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 3

Vienna—On Sunday afternoon, December 23 the Nazi boycott agitators caused a panic by throwing tear gas bombs in a big department store which might have resulted in loss of…

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Struck By Bomb, Mutiny Ship Surrenders 12 Killed, 25 Injured Runaway Vessel On Fire Crew Refused Surrender, But Changed Mind BATAVIA

The Sun · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 1

THE mutiny on the Dutch warship, The Seven Provinces, came to a dramatic end to-day when it was bombed by a pursuing seaplane, 12 of the crew being killed and 25 injured. The crew then surrendered…

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Boy's Death Accidental

The Sun · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 2

The City Coroner (Mr. Farrington) returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest on Frank Richard Amphlett, who died in St. George…

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Accident Proves Fatal

The Propeller · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 4

James Facey, aged 30 years, of Orange Street, Hurstville, who was critically injured on the evening of January 27, when a motor cycle he was…

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Verdict of Accidental Death Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 10

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner, Mr. P. Tidex, on James Tattersall, who was killed by a fall,of coal at the…

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Murray Drowning Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 1

John O'Neill, 21, of Broken Hill, was drowned in the Murray at Coomelia, near Mildura, yesterday. The youth, who could not swim not swim, fell…

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Youth Drowned. Wentworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 14

While bathing with some mates in the Murray River, near Coomealla late yesterday afternoon, Jack O'Neil, 21, of South Broken Hill, was drowned. He could not swim, and his…

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Injured by Tyre Burst

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 1

THREE men were struck by flying steel on Wednesday afternoon, when a tyre burst in Brown's Car Service Station in Sydney Road,…

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Miner Injured Kurri

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 6

Struck by a fall of coal in Richmond Main colliery to-day, John Lacey, 53, a miner, of Brunkerville, suffered a fractured collarbone,…

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Badly Injured Story of Assault on Youth

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 7

Charles Wade (15), of Morehead Street, Redfern, was admitted to Royal South Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon in a serious condition…

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Tidal Wave. Homes Damaged and Cattle Drowned. VANCOUVER, Feb. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 13

A message from St John's (Newfounderland) states that about 450 fisherfolk on Sandy Point Peninsula took refuge in attics and on the roofs of their cottages to-day, as a tidal wave…

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Appalling Disaster in Rhenish Prussia Gas Explosion Wrecks Big District Over 100 Are Dead More Than 2000 Injured; Women, Children Buried Poison Fear Causes Panic London

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 1

AN appalling disaster has occurred at Neukirchen, in Rhenish Prussia, where an explosion hurled aloft the largest gasometer in the Saar Valley, killed over 100…

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Push Bike Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 4

A push bike being ridden along High Street, Penrith, on Friday last by two lads, Hilton Byrnes and Owen Horstmini, ran into the back of a car driven…

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Casualties. Fatal Sequel to Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 14

James'Facey, 34, of Orange-street, Hurstville, whose motor cycle collided with a motor lorry in Niebo-avenue, Hurstville, on January 27, died from the effects of his injuries at St…

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Blackheath Collision

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 2

A car driven by William Mitchell, of Arthur-street, Randwick, collided at Blackheath yesterday with a truck driven by William Pemberton, of…

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Player Injured

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 14

C. SPILLANE, well-known South Sydney Rugby League footballer, playing cricket yesterday in the A Grade Moore Park Morning Competition,…

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Blast of Death 100 KILLED, 1000 Injured London

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 14

WITH a terrific explosion which killed 100 persons and injured 1000—250 critically — the largest…

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Gas=blast Death=roll Over 200 Town Wrecked 2000 Injured Grief-stricken Relatives' Search for Bodies Like an Earthquake Flames Were Visible 30 Miles Away London

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 1

MOUNTING as more bodies are extricated from the wreckage, the death roll resulting from the devastating explosion of a gasometer in Neukirchen, an industrial suburb of Solingen,…

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Foul Play or Accident?

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 2

Police officers from headquarters and Braidwood, nuder Detective-Sergeant Keogh, searching the ruins of Ralph Shepherd's (the Margarlowe hermit) house, for money or other evidence…

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Priest Injured Car Overturns After Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1933 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Sunday. -- Rev. Hugh Conaghan, parish priest of Balmain, accompanied by his niece and his brother, Rev. Dennis…

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