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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 198

Man Dies; Tram Fall Is Belief Many Are Injured At Newcastle Week-end List Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 7

ONE man succumbed to injuries received on Friday, and several persons were injured in the Newcastle district over the week-end…

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Motor Accidents. Child Killed. Mother and Daughter Flung Through Windscreen. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 10

A motor car skidded and overturned twice on the North Coast road, near Bundsberg, on Saturday. Mrs. Mcrvyn Magee, 30, of Gooburrum, was flung through the windscreen…

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Old Man Dies, Many Hurt in Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 14

ONE man was killed and many persons were injured in weekend accidents. William Cottin, 75, of Narooma,…

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Strange Situation At Hospital No Accident Cases, Is Request Royal S. Sydney R.M.O.V "Not On Duty"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 7

AN extraordinary situation developed at Royal South Sydney Hospital over the week-end, when it was reported that…

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Another Tramway Collision Sydney's Fourth In Recent Weeks Three Injured

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

WHEN a tram ran into the back of another at the corner of Day and Erskine Streets, City, yesterday afternoon, it made the fourth…

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Air Search for Drowned Man

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

A search by air and boat yesterday failed to find the body of Allan Sweet. 24. of Marrickville, who was drowned on Sunday when a canoe…

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Buckjump Rider Injured. Dunedoo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 10

vincent Deserre, buckjump rider, was thrown he[?]ly from his horse yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to the Gulgong Hospital suffering from concussion and severe internal…

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Youth Killed Collision with Clergyman's Motor Car

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

Hurled heavily against the radiator when his bicycle collided with a car in Chandos Street, Crow's Nest, yesterday, Gordon Henry Vincent, 17,…

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One Man Drowned; 3 Saved Narooma

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 5

CAUGHT by a breaking wave on the treacherous Narooma bar to-day a large passenger launch overturned, and its four occupants…

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Launch Capsizes in Rough Sea. Journalist Drowned. Three Companions Reach Safety

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 9

John Donaldson, 25, a Melbourne journalist, was drowned at Narooma yesterday, when the launch in which he had set out on a big-game fishing expedition capsized on…

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In Crash Car and Tram at Coogee Three Injured

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

A WOMAN and her two small children were injured late this afternoon, when a tram and a motor…

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Man Drowned In Town Water Supply After Wine-drinking Party. Griffith

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 9

The District Coroner (Mr. A. Savage) opened an inquest this morning into the drowning of a man, believed to be Jack Beilby, 30, an unemployed labourer, in the main canal near…

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Trams Again Three Hurt in Third Recent Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 1

Two men and a woman were injured yesterday afternoon when two trams collided at the corner of Erskine and Day Streets, City. It was…

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Two Women Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 14

Two women were injured yesterday when the car in which they were riding collided with a police car at the intersection of George and Goulburn streets, city. They were:…

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Axeman Injured. Barrallier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 14

While felling a tree on his property, at Oakwood, Wollondilly, William Goodfellow, 22, a grazier, inflicted a deep gash on a foot. Suffering from loss of blood, he mounted a…

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Shunter Injured. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 14

Catching his right hand between the buffers of two tiucks he was shunting in Bathurst railway yards, William Power, 36, shunter, had practically the whole of the flesh stripped to…

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Warder Injured Gaol Attack Charge

The Sun · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 15

Edward Kelly, 30, ironworker, appeared at the Central Court today on charges of having, at Long Bay Gaol, on March 5, assaulted Victor…

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Bus Hits House; One Injured

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 5

When a motor bus got out of control at Bowen's Road and Prince's Highway, Kogarah, yesterday it crashed through a paling fence and…

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District Court. (Before Judge White.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 10

Mildred George, of Birriga-road Bellevue Hill, sued Daniel Ord MacFarlane, of Maroubra Bay-road, Maroubra, for £100 for damage to a motor car as a result of a…

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Trams and Cars in Collision Four Persons Hurt

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 7

Trams were involved in two accidents with motor cars yesterday, and in both instances car passengers were injured…

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