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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 187

Three People Killed. Collision at Level Crossing. Truck and Train. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 14

Three persons were killed in a collision between a utility truck and a train at a level crossing near Tolga this morning…

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Firemen Rescue Gas Victim Masks Aid Descent To Injured Man ADELAIDE

The Sun · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 10

Overcome by fumes when gas filled a boiler at Torrenside Woollen Mills, Alan Parsons, 19, of Torrensville, lay for half an hour while rescuers tried…

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Victor Pays Tribute To The Vanquished FELL 60 Feet Down Lift Well Worker is Fatally Injured

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 1

SHOCKING injuries which proved fatal were suffered by John Giles, 24, builders' laborer, when he fell 60ft, down a newly-constructed lift well…

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Maori Children Killed Tragic N.Z. Accident Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 7

Two Maori children, who, with 10 others, stole a ride on the back of a motor lorry, were killed when they were thrown to the roadway on a…

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35 Killed in Mine Accident Johannesburg

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 7

THIRTY-FIVE men were killed owing to the overwinding of the cage in the Durban Deep gold mines…

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Youth Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 14

Frederick Albert Middleton (16), of Pennant Hills-road, Parramatta, was drowned in Lake Parramatta on Friday afternoon. He had been swimming some…

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Collision at Engadine

The Propeller · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

Frederick Boyd, of Randwick, and E. Samuelson, of Bellevue Hill, were injured on Saturday when a motor cycle and bicycle came into collision…

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Drowned Under Tractor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 1

LISMORE, Wednesday.--Stanley Charles Gray. 23, of Elthamfarm, laborer, was drowned in Pearce's Creek today, when a tractor on which…

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Footballer Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

J. A. James, of Hudson Street, Hurstville, had a collarbone fractured while playing football at Earl Park, Arncliffe, on Saturday. He was…

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Child Drowned at Cronulla

The Propeller · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

Rosemary Ann Conrick, aged two years, who lived with her parents at Wylmar Avenue, Cronulla, was drowned in two feet of water at her…

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Accidents of the Week. Motor Cyclists Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

Last Thursday Frederick Grills, of Mount Keira, was riding a motor cycle along Forest Road, Arncliffe, when he came into collision with a…

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Injured in Surf

The Propeller · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

Theodore Jaggers, 20, of Wardell Road, Arncliffe, while swimming in the surf at Bondi last Friday afternoon, collided with another surfer…

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Girl Cyclist Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

Miss H. Barclay, of Enfield, was riding "double-banked" on a bicycle on Monday, at the intersection of Forest and Stoney Creek Roads,…

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Man Drowned. Tractor Falls Into Creek. Accident at Lismore. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 6

Stanley Charles Gray, 23, labourer, of Eltham Farm, was drowned in Pearce's Creek to-day when the tractor on which he was working capsized into about 4ft of water and…

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Quarrel At Dinner, Diplomat Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 3

TOKIO, Wednesday.--Torikichi Obata, former Japanese Ambassador to Berlin, was injured today in a quarrel with a colleague' at a…

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Car Crashes Into Tram. Man Killed--Three Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

Last night a motor car crashed into a steam tram in Princes Highway, near Rocky Point Road, Kogarah, resulting in an elderly man…

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Man and Woman Killed. Two Other People Injured. Tram Wrecks Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 9

A man and a woman were killed and two other people were injured when a motor car and a steam tram collided in Prince's Highway, near Rocky…

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Old Man Is Killed in Smash Three Others Are Critically Injured

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 1

HUNDREDS saw a 74-year-old man killed, an elderly couple critically injured, and a third man also hurt last night…

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Cycle Accident

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 7

A motor cycle, owned and driven by James Glasse, of New Canterbury Road, Petersham, with pillion rider, Elwyn Mullaney, of Hunter street. Petersham,…

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Cyclist Killed Accident on Castlereagh Road

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 1

Frank Mikkelson (27, a farm labourer, residing with Mr J. B. Cook, Castlereagh, was riding a motor cycle along the Castlereagh on Friday, 26th…

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