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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

247 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 13

Valuable Mare Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 23

During the week Mr. G. M. Payne. of Bowna Estate, had a sensational experience. In company with Messrs. A. Gawler and Speed, of the N.S.W. Railway…

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German Piracy Sinking of Marina. Warning Not Given. All Officers Drowned. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 2

Survivors from the British steamer Marina (5201 tons), which was sunk off the Irish coast on Saturday afternoon, confirm the reports that the vessel was…

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Collision Near Holyhead 300 Lives Lost Only One Survivor. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 November 1916 · page 2

The North-Western steamer Connamara when proceeding to Holyhead collided on Friday night with the steamer Retriever. There was only one survivor out of those…

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Boston Tram Fatality. Forty Lives Lost. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 9 November 1916 · page 2

A Boston (U.S.) closed tram car ran through an open drain in Summer street bridge. Forty people were drowned, and only eight of the passengers were rescued…

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Drowned in the Billabong Man's Body Recovered Verdict of Suicide Returned

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 10 November 1916 · page 3

The man Reginald Mahy, who was reported missing last week and who was supposed to have done away with himself by drowning, was found…

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Nasty Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 10 November 1916 · page 2

A nasty and serious accident happened to Mr. W. Honniball, while engaged working a reaper and binder for Mr. P. Kennedy on…

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A Child Fatally Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 November 1916 · page 3

At Port Fairy, Victoria, yesterday an eight-year old son of Mrs. Wade, the widow of a chemist, was fatally injured as the result of a blow on the…

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Fatal Farm Accident. Man’s Leg Torn Off

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 16 November 1916 · page 3

On Thursday morning last, at about 11.30 a.m., a man named William Honniball visited “Newbridge,” near Tocumwal, the farm of Mr P…

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Drowned in the Billabong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 November 1916 · page 32

The man, Reginald Mahy, who was reported missing at Jeriklerie, and who was supposed to have done away with himself by drowning, was found in the creek a…

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Fatal Accident

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 17 November 1916 · page 2

As a result of the serious accident which happened to him ou Thursday of last week, Mr W. Honniball, died in Mooroopna Hospital early…

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Fatal Accident. Leg Amputated by Reaper and Binder

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1916 · page 3

A man named William Honnibal, whilst stooking hay for Patrick Kennedy, farmer, near Tocumwal on Thursday met with a terrible accident…

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Man and Wife Drowned. Six Little Orphans Left. Hamilton

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 November 1916 · page 2

Johann Gottfreid Schneider, a middle-aged man, and his wife were drowned in a dam this morning. Schneider was scouring wool, and…

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Munitions Explode. 150 KILLED; 650 Injured London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 November 1916 · page 2

Copenhagen forwards news of a most disastrous explosion of munitions at Arch-angel, the chief commercial city of Northern Russia…

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Deutschland Injured. Rammed Its Tug. Submarine Returns. Many Lives Lost. LONDON, Sunday. I

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 20 November 1916 · page 2

Reuter's Vancouver correspondent says: "A message from New London, Connecticut, states that the German submarine…

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Two Brothers Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 November 1916 · page 4

A double drowning accident occurred on Sunday afternoon in the West "Melbourne swamp, the victims being two brothers—Frederick Lionel Moller, 13 years of age,…

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Husband and Wife Drowned

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 24 November 1916 · page 1

Johann Gottfreid Schneider, and his wife were drowned in a dam at Hamilton on Friday. Sneider was scouring wool, and slipped and fell into the…

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Drowned in Wakool River. Miss Hood’s Death. an Open Verdict

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 November 1916 · page 2

The circumstances surrounding the death of Miss Hazel Hood 18 years of are (daughter of Mr Robert Hood, grazier of Wakool) whose body was found…

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One Drowned and 10 Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 November 1916 · page 2

There were 400 British sick aboard the Bracinar Castle. The casualties were one drowned and ten injured. (The Braemar Castle, which belonged…

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Fatality at Borambola. Body on Railway Line

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 1

The body or a man named Thomas Moran, a navvy, who was engaged on the Wagga Humula railway construction staff, was found by his mates on the…

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Bombs on London. Women Injured Seriously

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 November 1916 · page 2

An official statement issued by the Press Bureau says:- "A hostile aeroplane, at a great height above a haze, dropped six bombs on…

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