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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Motor and Horseman. Collision Near Maitland

Northern Times · Wednesday 22 November 1916 · page 5

A motor smash occurred on the main Northern road near Rutherford racecourse West Maitland, about 7.30 this morning. A car from Singleton, owned and driven…

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Power House Accident. Armstrong Improving

Northern Times · Wednesday 22 November 1916 · page 1

Arthur Armstrong, who was admitted into the Newcastle Hospital yesterday, suffering from a fractured skull and broken ribs, the result of…

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Sulkies in Collision. in Maitland Thoroughare

Northern Times · Thursday 23 November 1916 · page 1

There was a collision between two sulkies in High Street, West Maitland. yesterday afternoon, during the busiest part of the day. The vehicles…

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Street Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 November 1916 · page 6

Two sulkies collided in High-street, near Church-street, yesterday afternoon, with considerable force, the wheels being locked. The compact was so great that…

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Italian Campaign. Hospital Shelled by Huns. Seven Killed and 11 Injured. ROME

Northern Times · Friday 24 November 1916 · page 5

An official communique states:- "The enemy shelled a field hospital in the Gorizia area. In spite of a conspicuous Red Cross flag over it. Seven…

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Cyclist Injured. Accident at Maitland

Northern Times · Saturday 25 November 1916 · page 6

About eight o'clock last night, Mr. Les. Atkinson, guard on the East Greta railway line, was riding along the Picnacree Road, when he…

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Saved from Drowning. Rescue Near Pilot Station

Northern Times · Saturday 25 November 1916 · page 6

Promptness all round was the feature of a waterside casualty this morning, and was the means of rescuing from drowning an elderly man…

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Naval Operations. Britannic Outrage. 30 of Crew Believed Drowned. ATHENS

Northern Times · Saturday 25 November 1916 · page 1

[?]the Britannic survivors. Eighty nurses were taken to Russian hospitals and hotels…

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The War This Afternoon's Cables Another Hospital Ship Sunk Russian Battleship Accidentally Lost Hindenburg Increasingly Arrogant A Combined Moltke and Bismarck British Open and Hun Bogus Finance Balkans and Turkey. Danube Front. Military Expert,s Opinion. LONDON

Northern Times · Saturday 25 November 1916 · page 1

The military correspondent of "The Times." Colonel Repington, writes that the situation in Rumania is less black than it appears to be. The…

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Supposed Drowning Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 6

The Water Police have been dragging, but so far without success, for the body of a man, Albert Jones, aged 59 years, of Aberdare-read, Cessnock, who is supposed…

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Supposed Drowning Case. Body Not Yet Recovered

Northern Times · Monday 27 November 1916 · page 5

Up to three o'clock this afternoon, the water police had not been successful in recovering the body of Mr. Thos. Jones, of Cessnock, who is…

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Aerial. Raid on London. Women Injured Seriously. LONDON

Northern Times · Wednesday 29 November 1916 · page 1

It is stated officially that a hostile aeroplane, flying at a great height above a haze, dropped six bombs in London at noon to-day. Four women…

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Vienna Train in Collision. COPENHAGEN

Northern Times · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 5

An express rain from Vienna collided with a train from Bucharest near Herzceghalom station. The express curried thousands of people…

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Riot on S.S. Mukura. Several Persons Injured. HONOLULU

Northern Times · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 1

Twenty-five stokers on the s.s. Makura rioted on deck on Thursday prior to the steamer's departure for Sydney. Several of the Makura's…

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Railway Accident. Copenhagen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 5

An express train from Vienna collided with a train from Budapesth, near Harzceghalon station. Thousands of persons in the train were…

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Motor Car Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 6

Dr. Tennant, of Kurri Kurri, was called to attend a child injured in a motor car accident last evening at Tester's Hollow, near Beddon Greta, on the…

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Collision with a Sulky

Northern Times · Wednesday 6 December 1916 · page 2

Yesterday a lad named William Horder, who is employed by the Railway Bookstall Company, West Maitland cra[?]cu, was siding a o[?]cycle along…

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The Motor Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 December 1916 · page 8

The fifteen months old son of Mr. Frederick M'Clure, a licensed motor driver, employed by a motor car owner in West Maitland, was admitted to Maitland…

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Naval Operations. Forty-Seven Americans Drowned

Northern Times · Thursday 7 December 1916 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.—The crew of the torpedoed steamer Palermo included 17 Americans. Her cargo consisted of horses, copper, iron, oil…

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Hurt By Backfire. a Clergyman Injured

Northern Times · Thursday 7 December 1916 · page 3

The Rev. A. Conolly. of St. Paul's Church or England, West Mattland, met with a painful accident on Tuesday last. He was starting the engine…

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