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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 159

Unusual Accident at Newcastle — Prominent Visitors Arrive at Fremantle — Scene of Bank Robbery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 16

The unusual incident which caused excitement in a Newcastle suburb yesterday. Railway wheels broke loose from a lorry on which they were being carried, and one set brought down this shop balcony and awning. Others rolled in other directions and caused a quick scatter of…

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Cyclist Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 18

Lawrence Kimbill, 14. of Ledger Street, Merrylands, was riding his bicycle in pennant Hills Road, Parramatta, yesterday. when it skidded, and he fell heavily receiving…

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Workman Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 7

Digging in a large excavation for the new monkey pit at the Zoo today, Alex Campbell, of Parkville, suffered a broken rib, bruises, and…

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Black Fern Injured at Kensington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 15

Black Fern got her near hind leg over a fence at Kensington yesterday morning, and stripped the flesh from the bone, exposing the tendons, and in places the bone…

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Injured When Diving. Gosford

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

Alex Bryan 12 of Garland Road Naremburn received severe head injuries when he dived and hit his head on a rock at Ourimbah. The district ambulance took him to…

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Boy Predicted Death in Poem. Premonition Before Drowning. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 20

A poem, written by Charies Millar 15, which appeared in the magazine of the Maitland Boys' High School of which he was a pupil, seemed to show a remarkablet permonition of…

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Bomb Explodes. Man Injured. Roof of House Wrecked. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 17

Vincenzo Dagostino, 35, baker, was severely injured when a bomb exploded outside his bakery at Ingham at one O'clock this morning, while he was…

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Toll Of The Road Four Fatally Injured Man Killed As car Capsizeis

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 1

FOUR persons died yesterday from injuries received in road accidents. A man lost his life in a car capsize near Dalgety, another fell in front of a lorry in the city, while a child and an elderly woman-died from injuries in hospital…

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Accidents at Lithgow Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

Alan Fitzgerald 5, received head injuries and a cut to a leg when a gate collapsed and fell on him, A Playmate, Mick Rerckelman carried him to a doctor's surgery, and…

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Un Accidente Aviatorio a Brindisi. Roma, 20 Dicembre

Italo-Australian · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 4

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Youth Drowned In Swimming Pool

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 18

STUNNED when hit on the head with a piece of broken chain at De Burgh's Bridge yesterday, Edgar Cusack, 19, of Albert-street, Erskineville, fell into the swimming pool and was drowned…

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Serious Race Smashes Leading Jockey, Keith Cook, Critically Injured Horses Killed in Falls at Canterbury

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 1

FOLLOWING hot on the fatal accident at Randwick on Villiers Stakes Day when that promising young horseman, Max Papworth, met his death,…

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Owner Had Heather on Early Bird's Tardy Take-Off Accidental, Said Stipes

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 2

ALAN COOPER was well in the picture at Canterbury yesterday. He and R. Heather were very much at loggerheads. FIRST of all, in the first division of the…

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Youth Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

Edward Cusack, 19, of Albert street, ErsKineville waa drowned in a swimming pool near de Buigh's bridge, Ryde, on Saturday, afternoon when a chain on which he…

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Girl Drowned in Baths

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

Cleopatra Touloulza, 13, who lives with her mother in Percival Road, Stanmoe, was drowned in Elkington Baths, Balmain, yesterday. With her mother and two sisters…

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Got Blow Before Drowning GOSFORD

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

EVIDENCE that Leonard Glover cooley Orr, 20. of The Entrance, had suffered a blow on the temple before he was drowned, was given…

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Heavy Toll of Accidents Injured Athletes Improving

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 18

Miss Kay Tiffen, the English hurdler, who fell while training at Arlington Ground on Saturday, has been under continuous treatment from the…

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Injured Rider To Attend Inquest

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 17

Jockey H. Zensky will leave hospital at Parramatta to attend the City Coroner's inquest at 10 a.m. today concerning the death of the race apprentice, M…

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Toll Of The Road Child Is Seriously Injured Skull Fractured In Accident

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

SERIOUS Injury was suffered by JUNE GRANT, 7, of Louth Park, when struck by a car while running along the road at Hexham yesterday…

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40 Killed in Train Collision Allahabad

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

FORTY persons were killed and 40 injured when an express collided with a goods train in a dense fog at Bamraull, near here, to-day…

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