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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 198

Crushed to Death at Work Man Is Caught Between Slag Pots Many Injured Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 February 1935 · page 6

ONE man was killed, several were critically injured, and others had narrow escapes, in the Newcastle district over the week-end…

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Motor Accidents. Fatal Fali, From Truck. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1935 · page 10

Thomas Gould, 36, of Lysterfield fell from the running-board of a motor truck in Lysterfield on Saturday morning. The rear wheels of the truck passed over his body, and he…

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Casualties. Injured in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 12

A motor lorry, driven by Harold Porter, 36, of Wellington-street, Bondi, with Thomas Ware, 44, of Chambers-avenue, Bondi, and his son, Ernest, 20, as passengers, came into collision…

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Child Drowned. Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 12

On Saturday morning, the body of Peter Weavers, aged 1 year and 10 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Weavers, of Binalong, was found by an elder brother, George…

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Drowned in Murray. Corowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 12

Patrick Tenney, 22, was drowned while bathing at Woolshed reserve in the Murray River, 13 miles from Corowa, on Sunday. He was attempting to swim across the river…

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Tram Collision. Five People Hurt. Traffic Delayed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 11

Five people suffered shock and abrasions yesterday evening, when two trams collided in Eddy-avenue, near Elizabeth-street, city. They were Mrs. C. Beavor, 34, of…

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His Football Injured Constable's Chief Concern

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 5

Constable George Rex Larnach-Jones, who was badly injured when he fell from a vaulting-horse dining a novelty act at the Police Carnival on…

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Newsboy Injured. Fall From a Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 7

Ray Leslie Blencowe 12, a schoolboy, of Newland-street Wakerley, although his left forearm was crushed by a wheel of a tram which had passed over it, did not relax his…

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Fatally Injured in 100Ft Fall Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 6

When he fell about 100 feet from the roof of the Canberra Hotel, City, where additions are being made, and crashed on to the roof of a…

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Injured Racehorse. Marathon Walk with Attendant. GRAFTON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 11

Bill Russell, 50, strapper for trainer F. Bellamy, of South Grafton, put up a remarkable walking performance with the racehorse Amanullah…

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Going Home to Czechoslovakia Injured Man Receives Lump Sum

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 6

Statins that he intended to use the money to pay his fare of £60 home to Kokava, Czechoslovakia, and the balance would be invested in his father's general…

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District Court. (Before Judge Curlewis and a Jury of four.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 8

Samuel Coker, of Rosstherne avenue Croydon, sought to recover from Eleanor Frances Whiston-Walsh of Everton-road Strathfield £400 damages for injuries received as the…

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Head-on Smash Three Injured Near Peat's Ferry Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 6

In a head-on collision between two ears near Peat's Ferry this afternoon, three persons were slightly injured. George Fealy, of Oaklands…

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Trapped In A Runaway 'Bus Hillside Crash Four Injured Nine Leaped Clear

The Sun · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 7

WITH four terrified passengers trapped inside, a motor bus, which bolted backwards down Pike's Hill, near Kiama, early to-day, tore through a fence guarding a 20ft. drop over an embankment, and turned over…

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Packed City Trams in Collision Five Are Taken to Hospital Many Passengers In State Of Panic

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 1

FOUR married women and a little girl were taken to hospital as the result of a collision between two double-sets of trams at the…

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Workers' Compensation Commission. (Before Judge Perdriau and Messrs. Routlcy and Halliday, Commissioners.) Newsboy Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 8

The claim by Ray Leslie Blencowe for compensation from Leonard Mitchell Day is reported in another column. Mr. E. S. Miller (Instructed by Mr. Frank…

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Accident Sequel

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 5

The sequel to an [?]ciden on Anzac Parade, Kensington, on February 17, was heard at the Central Court yesterday, when Jack McKenzle…

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Skull Fractured in Collision Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 5

When a car and a motor cycle collided in Kembla Street, Wollongong, to-night, Norman Coulthard, of Bulgownie, the driver of the cycle,…

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Woman Chased Thief Injured Leg

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 5

Chasing a man who had stolen £5 from a till at her costumlere's shop in Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, yesterday, Mrs. Hyams was forced…

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Relief Worker Injured. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 14

William Harold Ewer, 22, a relief worker employed by the Forestry Department at Dilkoon, was wounded in the shoulder and arm when a heavy cross cut saw was cata[?]…

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