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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Powder Factory Explosion. Disaster in Kent. 106 KILLED; 66 Injured. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 2

The official list of the casualties occasioned in the disaster at a powder factory explosion in Kent gives the killed as 106 men, while 66 were…

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Naval Raid Damage at Yarmouth. News of Chase Awaited. Four Killed. Twelve Injured. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 2

It is officially stated that the bombardment of Lowestoft lasted half an hour. Despite the fact that the enemy were using heavy guns the damage was relatively slight. A convalescent home, swimming bath, pier, and…

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Cyklon Injured. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1916 · page 4

The Adelaide Cup favorite, Cyklon met with an accident on the local training track this morning through getting one leg over the rails through…

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Big Train Smash. a Goulburn Accident

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 1 May 1916 · page 3

THe Biggest smash women ever occurred at Goulburn railway yards took place at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, when a goods…

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Train Fatality. Married Woman's End. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 3

Mrs. Minia Charles, who attempted to slight from a moving train at Granville, fell between the platform and a carriage and sustained shocking injuries…

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Old Junee Fatality. Death of a Child. Stack Building Methods

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 3

At the inquest on the boy John Francis Dalley, son of the station master at Old Junee, who was killed on Thursday, April 20, by bags of wheat…

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Air War. Frenchman's Death Dive. Collision in Mid-air. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 2

During an air fight between a French and a German aviator near Mulhausen, the Frenchman, finding his petrol tank piereed and his…

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Henty Drowning Case

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 2

The inquest on the body of Leslie Higgins, a stranger in the district, who was found drowned in the railway drowned at Henty on February 16 last, has…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 May 1916 · page 2

Robert Hatchwell, while out shooting with his son at Hannon Vale, Manning River, was shot dead by the…

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Railway Collision. Result of Inquiry. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 May 1916 · page 3

The inquiry concerning the recent-railway collision at Goulburn Station is concluded. The department notifies that the inquiry revealed that the…

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Floods in Africa. Forty Persons Drowned. Capetown

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

The disastrous drought in the midland districts has broken up with heavy rains, which were followed by floods. Railways homesteads, dams and live…

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Accidental Death. Found Unconscious by the Roadside

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 5

AN old and respected man, in the person of Mr. John Smith, of Back Station Creek, met his death in a somewhat strange and simple…

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Accidents

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

A little girt named Lila Leighton, aged 6 years, was returning home on Tuesday afternoon after being sent on an errand by her mother, when she was accidentally…

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Two Women-drowned

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 15 May 1916 · page 3

Two young women were drowned in the Yarra River at Melbourne yesterday. They, with two young men, were stepping out of…

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The Fatal Vote. Result of Motor Accident. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 May 1916 · page 2

The rebel executive assembled on Good Friday in Dublin, awaiting news of German gun-running. Meanwhile the emissaries with the news of its…

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Accidental Death. the Justs Rider. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 May 1916 · page 4

At the inqeuest on the body of Archibald M'Intyre (34), who was suffocated in an open cut at the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine. Mr. Check…

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Two Women Drowned

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 2

Two young women were drowned in the Yarra River, Melbourne, yesterday. They, with two young men, stepped out of a canoe when…

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Motor Car Accident. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 2

A motor car containing fire passengers overturned at Attunga late last night. The occupants were more or less seriously injured, the driver being…

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French Airship. Fell Into Sea. Crew of Six Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 2

A French airship has fallen into the sea off Sardinia. The crew of six were drowned…

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Motor Cycle Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 2

Mr. C. Lyne, inspector of stock, while riding his motor cycle on a tour of inspection in the vicinity of Deepwater Station, between Wagga and…

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