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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 187

McCARTEN'S Great Week Munro Injured

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 9

OUTSTANDING features of the week's racing were the achievements of Maurice McCarten to record winning doubles at Gosford and Victoria Park and…

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Bus Disaster. Seventeen People Drowned. Negro Porter's Heroism. Miami, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 14

Seventeen persons, including two children who were trapped when the collapse of a wheel caused an express bus to overturn on the highway and roll into a canal, were…

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Child's Body In Lake Drowned at Play; Mother's Find Gosford

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 10

THE body of her baby daughter, aged 2, was found floating in Terrigal Lake today by Mrs. Freda Bower…

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Hurled Through Window Of 'Bus Teacher Is Killed Six Injured at Burwood

The Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 13

HURLED through the glass of a 'bus side window, Lilian Rose Downer, a schoolteacher, was killed in…

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Explosion in Mine. 16 Killed; 201 Injured. Spectacle for Newspapermen. Chuquicamata (Chile), Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 14

The premature explosion of 1500 tons of dynamite in a copper mine here killed 16 persons and injured 201. Fifteen are missing…

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Costly Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 22

But for scalding his left arm after returning from the tracks yesterday morning, W. Matthews would have ridden Teleview and Goldspur, two…

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Accidentally Drowned

The Propeller · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 7

George Alexander Robertson, only son of Mrs. M. W. Robertson, of Stoney Creek Road, Penshurst, and the late Mr. A. G. Robertson, was…

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Jockey Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 15

H. Perry had his left collar-bone broken when Soot fell with him in the straight in the first division of the Fourteen-two Handicap at Kensington yesterday. The…

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Accidents of the Week. Cyclists Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 4

Jack Claypole, of Stanley Street, Peakhurst, was riding a bicycle on Saturday in Wattle Street, Peakhurst, when he struck a projection in the…

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Injured Jockey to Marry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 7

Despite several fractured ribs suffered in a fall at Canterbury last Saturday week, J. Duncan, a leading jockey, will not abandon arrangements…

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Dazzling Lights Car Skid v FATALITY

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 7

The district coroner, Mr Arthur Judges, held an inquest at Penrith Court House on Monday into the death of Christopher Ryan, who was killed…

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Baby Drowned' in Dam Parkes

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 9

Harold Sweeney, 18 months, strayed from his home on the Peak Hill road on Tuesday and was found by his mother later drowned in a dam…

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Jockey Injured in Kensington Fall

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 27

H. Perry, rider of Soot, who fell soon after entering the straight in the first division of the Kensington 14.2 Handicap yesterday, broke a collarbone…

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Jockey Injured When Horse Fell

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 1

When the racehorse Soot fell while turning for home in the first division of the 14.2 Handicap at Kensington Racecourse yesterday, the…

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Motor Smash Lidcombe Youths Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 3

Riding a motor cycle on Sunday, Greg. Duff (17), of Ann-street, Lidcombe, and Fred. Austin (19), of Clarence-street, Lidcombe, were involved in an accident…

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Sydney Storm Four Deaths; Many Injured; Heavy Damage

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 2

FOUR lives were lost, many persons injured, and damage amounting to thousands of pounds was done by a storm which,…

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Man Fatally Injured Leg Crushed By Trailer Wheel GLOUCESTER

The Sun · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 33

One man was killed, and another injured, when the brakes of a timber lorry failed as it was descending a steep forest road at Carsonville…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 6

Mr Fred Norton, of the Main Roads Department staff, while engaged by the Shire Council on road work at North Springwood. met with an…

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Accident After Tragedy Eye-Witness Taken To Hospital

The Sun · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 24

"While I was questioning Knights, a witness of the accident, he was knocked down by a motor car. and. as a result, still is in hospital. I…

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Chorus Singer Stabbed by Star Accidental Thrust By Tibbett New York

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 1

ON the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Joseph Sterzini, a member of the chorus, was fatally stabbed…

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