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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 160

Workman's Death. After Simple Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1933 · page 14

Curious features are associated w[?] the death in the Royal Prince Alfred hospital yesterday of Donald Macdonald, 41, of Page-street, Wentworthville. A post-mortem…

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Trucks Leave Rails. Accident Near Casino. CASINO

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1933 · page 13

Considerable damage was done to the main Sydney-Brisbane railway line between Grafton and Casino at dusk yesterday, when 15 trucks of a heavy goods train, drawn…

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Doloroso Accidente Ad Un Connazionale

Il Giornale Italiano · Saturday 4 March 1933 · page 2

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Earthquake Death Roll Over 500 Six Provinces of Japan Shaken; Tidal Wave and Fire Wreak Terrific Damage Nearly 4000 Injured Or Among Missing Almost as Bad as 1923 Homes of 3000 Ruined Fears For Fishing Fleet TOKIO

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 March 1933 · page 1

OVER 500 are known to be dead, 1207 injured, and nearly 2000 missing, following a terrific earthquake which shook six of the northern provinces of Japan early this morning. It was followed by a mountainous tidal…

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Married Four Months—Then Lost His Eyesight Victim of Tragic Accident Now Seeks Divorce Tells Judge of a "Coolness"—Says Wife Deserted Him

Truth · Sunday 5 March 1933 · page 21

SLOWLY he shuffled into the court room, timidly he felt his way along, hands outstretched before him, a man condemned by Fate to walk in eternal darkness. AN accident had robbed Arthur William Blott of his…

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Casualties. Man Killed in Collision. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 10

Five men were injured, one fatally, and two others seriously, when a motor car in which they were passengers came into collision with a telephone pole on Maitland-road,…

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Boy Drowned Did Not Attempt to Swim

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 1

Although able to swim quite Well; Robert James Watt, a 14-year-old schoolboy, was drowned when he overbalanced and fell into George's. River at Hollywood from a…

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Surf Fatality. Man Swept Out to Sea. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 9

Charles Mordue, 22, of Cowlishaw-street, Redhead, was drowned when he was caught in a channel off an unpatrolled area of Redhead Beach to-day, and was swept out to…

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Swept Out to Sea Young Man Drowned at Redhead

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 7

NEW CASTLE, Sunday. -- Charles Mordue, 23, was swept to sea at Redhead this morning, and, despite a search by police and the Redhead…

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Fall Down Cliff. Young German Sailor Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 10

Walter Setzen, 16, a trainee on the visiting German barque Magdalene Vinnen, fell 30 feet in an attempt to climb the cliff face near Clovelly Beach yesterday. One of his legs…

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Glider Crashes Occupant Seriously Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 5

When operating a new type of glider at the aviation grounds at Port Melbourne this afternoon, George Hawkins, 19, of Camberwell,…

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Glider Crashes. Pilot Seriously Injured. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 9

A glider crashed this afternoon at the Carey aviation ground at Port Melbourne, and George Hawkins, 19, of Camberwell-road, Camberwell, was seriously injured…

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Father and Son Injured When Car Overturns Kurri

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 5

When a car containing a party of men overturned in Lang St., Kurri, early this morning. Charles Skene, 69, and James Skene, 27, father and…

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Starlike Injured At Kensington To-day Wootton's Trainer S. R. Lamond, Sr. Chosen His Record

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 2

The owner and trainer of Starlike, Mr. W. Gressier, is hardly in luck's way…

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Trick of Fate on a Cadet Risked His Life Daily on Ship; Injured on Land at Clovelly

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 5

A ROTTEN piece of barbed wire, once part of the Clovelly defences, taught Walter Setyen, 16, a cadet attached to the German…

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Pea-rifle Accident. Narrandera

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 10

A Mott, 21 years, while shooting at Widgiewa, dropped the pea-rifle he was carying. The rifle exploded, the bullet entering Mott's groin and lodging in the abdomen. An…

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Man Receives Fatal Injury in Car Smash Neck Artery Severed by Flying Windscreen Glass Four Others Hurt Accident Caused by Steering Gear Failing Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 5

ONE man was killed and four others injured when the steering gear of a motor car in which they were riding this morning…

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Rifle Accident Judy Kelly's Sister Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 3

Betty Kelly, 15, sister of Judy Kelly, now a talkie star at Elstree, was accidentally shot in the left shoulder near her home at Huskisson…

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Injured In Disturbance

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 9

Washington, Monday.--Several persons were injured in fighting between the police and unemployed to-day, when the former broke up a…

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Contractor Injured. Grafton, Month

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 10

Mr. G. S. Havinden, contractor, of Grafton, was seriously injured and his motor tiuck was damaged when it skidded on Lawrence-road, 12 miles from Grafton, and crashed into a…

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