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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

3,472 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 174

Child Badly Injured Dubbo

The Labor Daily · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

Moira, five-year-old daughter of Mr. J. Stackpool; of Brisbane Street, Dubbo, was playing on a bed when she suddenly, overbalanced and fell…

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Boy Injured Car Strikes Billy Cart

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

While riding in his billy-cart on the Parramatta-road on Tuesday, Billy Hockley, aged 10, of Northumberland-road, Auburn, was struck by a car…

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Youth Killed Motor Cycle And Lorry In Collision

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 19

Thrown from his motor-cycle in a collision with a motor-lorry at the corner of Canary and Canterbury roads, Lakemba, today, William…

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Trams Collide. Four Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

Pour persons were injured this morning when two tram cars collided in St. Kilda-road, near Commercial-road. It was officially stated that one tram slowed…

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EXPLOSION Two Injured, Wall Shaken BRISBANE

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 17

Two men were injured and a wall moved out of position when an explosion occurred at the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing…

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Dramatic Rescue From Drowning Father and Daughter at Lake Parramatta Where Were the Life-savers?

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 1

No more remarkable rescue from drowning than that recorded on Sunday last, when Mr. Roy Flether, of Darcy-street, Parramatta, snatched his own daughter from the jaws of death at Lake Parramatta, has been effected in this" district:, "It would seem," said Mr. Fletcher…

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Bad Wicket Batsmen Injured Two Helped Off City v. COUNTRY

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 18

SENT in to bat on a rainaffected wicket today in the match against a City team, the country players were all…

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Man and Wife Injured Car Clashes Into Bank Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 5

Skidding on the Great Northern Highway a few miles south of Gosford to-day a car travelling towards Newcastle somersaulted and…

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Man and Wife Injured Car Smash on Great Northern Highway

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

GOSFORD, Wednesday.--Mr. and Mrs. w. Divall, of Toronto, were returning from Sydney when their car skidded and overturned on the Great…

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Prisoner's Escape. Leap from Moving Train. Police Escort Injured. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 9

A prisoner, Edward Milton Murray, alias Edgar William Young, made a sensational escape from a police escort by jumping from the North Coast mail train between Casino…

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Hurdle Favorite's Backers Lucky to Collect Gay Breeze Down at Last Jump Fall Impeded Hustler McMENAMIN'S Handling of Underwood Questioned W. Aldridge Injured

The Labor Daily · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

BY a remarkable stroke of luck, Master Colin favorite for yesterday's Rosebery Brush Hurdle Race, was enabled to score a narrow victory. Approaching the last jump both Gay Breeze and Hustler had the Rizzio gelding's measure, but the first-named came to grief at the…

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"Woman Had No Chance" Accidentally Burnt to Death, Says Coroner

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Wednesday.--Alarmed by shrieks, Thomas Durie, a miner, rushed out to his kitchen to find his wife completely enveloped in flames…

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Double Drowning

The Biz · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

Tied firmly together with cord, the bodies of a women and her 13-month-old baby were found in the Tumut River. Two heavy stones were attached to the…

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Escapes From Drowning

The Biz · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

Six persons had remarkable escapes on Wednesday night when a motor waggon ran into the Georges River at Taren point. A woman was rescued in an unconscious…

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Boys Drowned

The St George Call · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2

William Clarke (11) of King Edward Street, Rockdale, who was spending his school holidays in Goulburn, was drowned when he fell into the…

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Killed in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

William Caswell (20), milk carter, of Kingsgrove Street, Bexley, was killed yesterday when his motor cycle and a sand-laden lorry collided at…

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Rockdale Boy Drowned

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 1

William Clarke, aged 11 years, of King Edward Street, Rockdale, who was spending his school holidays in Goulburn, was drowned when, he fell…

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Drowned in Wolli Creek

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 1

Getting out of his depth, Leslie Abell, aged 10 years, of Realm Street, Arncliffe, was drowned in view of a mate in Wolli Creek. Undercliffe. last…

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Accidents of the Week. Motor Cyclists Injured

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

Keith Foreman, 20, of Fivedock, was riding a motor cycle along Liverpool Road, last Sunday, with William Hawker, 17, of Caringbah, on the pillion…

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Racing Cyclist Injured

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

When five riders crashed in the State three-mile junior cycling championship at Henson Park last night A. Scott, of the St. George Cycling Club,…

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