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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 160

Casualties. Girl Fatally Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 10

Lorna Bridge, 11, of Wakanui-street, Northcote, was struck by a motor car in High-street, Northcote, yesterday afternoon as she was about to enter a picture theatre. She received…

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Injured at Wangi Baths Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 6

Falling from the edge of the baths at Wangi to-day, Mrs. May Shadwell, of Heath, suffered concussion. She was brought to Cessnock and…

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Bolting Horse Killed Chinese Dealer Badly Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 6

When a fear-maddened horse attached to a Chinese fruiterer's cart bolted in High Street Manly, on Saturday the driver was thrown out and…

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Car Wrecked Police Arrest Three Injured Men

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 7

Shortly after a car was wrecked in Victoria Street, Ryde, on Saturday night, three young men, bleeding from severely cut arms and faces…

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Woman Injured Car Crashes Into Electric Light Pole

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 1

Mrs. Florence Hadley, of Dudley-street, Punchbowl, received a deep wound over the eye last night when a car in which she was riding crashed into an electric light…

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Bolting Horse Crashes into Brick Wall. Chinese Badly Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 10

Many members of a holiday crowd had narrow escapes from injury on Saturday afternoon, when a panic-stricken horse bolted through the streets at Manly…

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Two Boys Are Drowned in Railway Dam Playmate Saw Them Dive to Their Deaths Erskineville Hour's Resuscitation Methods Prove Fruitless

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 1

WHILE their playmate waited anxiously for their reappearance, two little boys were drowned in the railway waterworks dam…

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Motor Train Runs Down Car at Coniston Vehicle Is Smashed on Unguarded Crossing Two Injured Occup'nts Fortunately Thrown Clear of Line Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 5

ANOTHER shocking railway crossing accident occurred this afternoon near Coniston, when a car was smashed beyond…

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Series of Earthquakes Cause Havoc in Southern California. 140 Persons Killed; 5000 INJURED. Property Damage Estimated at 50,000,000 Dollars. Los Angeles, March 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 9

One hundred and forty people were killed and 5000 were injured in a series of earthquake shocks which shook Southern California last night. Damage to property is estimated at 50,000,000 dollars. Fourteen cities and towns in a strip 200 miles long and 60 miles wide…

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Rescuers' Grim Work in 'Quake Ruins List of Dead and Injured Grows 50,000 People Breakfast in Open-air Kitchens Damage Is Colossal Los Angeles

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 1

The death roll in the Southern Californian earthquake is now believed to be 140. Over 5000 people were injured, but all but 1000 were first-aid cases. Damage is estimated at from 35,000,000…

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Better System Wanted Recording Road Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 6

The N.R.M.A. points to the absence of any special departmental system of recording the whole of the facts relating to road accidents in this State, and points…

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Sailing Accidents Stiff Nor'-easter Tested Dinghy Skippers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 3

Kangaroo, capably handled by Stan, King, scored a brilliant victory in yesterday afternoon's race of the Balmain 10-foot dinghies for the Albert Cup (third hent)…

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144 Killed and 5000 Injured in U.S. Quake a Hundred Cities, Towns and Villages Are Shaken £2,000,000 Bill Fires and Floods Add to Terror of the People New York

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 1

IT is officially estimated that 144 persons were killed and 5000 injured in the earthquake that rocked a 400-square-mile area of…

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Drowned in the Murray

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Peter Joyce, fruitpicker, of Ouycn, was drowned at Merbein, while crossing the Murray, when the boat in which…

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Girl Drowned in Dam. Quandialla

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 10

Ada Pearse, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Pearse, Rosedale, Bland, was drowned in a dam at her uncle's property, Major's Point, on Friday. Fully clothed,…

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Horseman Fatally Injured. Gunnedah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 10

Valentine Hercules Reardon, 33, a returned soldier, was thrown from a horse at Curlewis on Saturday, receiving a fractured skull, from which he died at Gunnedah Hospital on…

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Elderly Man Fatally Injured by Car

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 5

Injuries received when he was knocked down by a car In Parramatta Road, Taverner's HIB, yesterday, proved fatal to George James…

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Motor Accidents. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 10

A car conveying a party from Cessnock to Armidale somersaulted when a tyre blew out 10 miles from Tamworth. It left the road and fell down an embankment. P. Clark,…

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Accidental Death, Finds Coroner

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 5

Accidental death was the finding of the city Coroner, Mr. Farrington, S.M.,yesterday,in the case of James William Taylor, .printer, who was…

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Injured Boy Found on Road

The Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1933 · page 16

PENRITH, Wednesday.--A schoolboy, James Locke, of Castlereagh, was found, unconscious, alongside his bicycle on the roadway at Lambridge…

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