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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Tram Accident. There Passengers Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 May 1916 · page 3

At a late hour last night a tram accident occurred at the intersection of the Quay and George-street. Three passengers were more or less seriously…

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Coach Overturns. Passengers Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 3

The mail coach carrying the mails from Coff's Harbor to Bellingen overturned last night and the occupants were thrown out…

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Motor Car Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1916 · page 2

Whilst travelling between Barooga and Cobram, near Berrigan, a motor car, occupied by Messrs. P. A. Conway (owner), W. Shadford (driver), and J…

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Serious Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 May 1916 · page 2

Malton Shephard, son of Mr. J. W. Shephard, Gobbagumbalin, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. The youth had been to Wagga with a…

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Double Fatality. Two Lives for a Dog. Woman and Girl Killed at Bulli. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1916 · page 2

A party of sightseers were making their way up tHe Bulli mountain when a dog owned by one of the ladies ran on to the line in front of some coal…

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To-day's Telegrams Railway Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 2

While a passenger train from Liverpool was standing at Newtown Station last night, a passenger train…

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Railway Smash. Suburban Trains Collide. One Soldier Slightly Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 2

A railway smash occurred at Newtown station to-night about about 9 o'clock, between two suburban trains. One train, which left Liverpool at 8 o'clock,…

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German Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 May 1916 · page 2

A German submarine collided with a mine and was heavily damaged and was towed to Ostend…

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Jockey Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1916 · page 3

Harry Hoyce, jockey, had his right leg broken as a result of a kink from a racehorse on the racing track this morning…

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Laborer Badly Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1916 · page 3

Owing to the premature explosion of a charge of dynamite in a sewer french at Balmain, William Hyde, a laborer, had his right thigh almost…

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Bi-planing Disaster. Captain Killed and Lieutenant Injured. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1916 · page 2

Captain Grim-Jones and Lieutenant Henry Tennant (eldest son of the Under-Secretary for War) were bi-planing in Kent when the machine…

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Serious Accident

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 31 May 1916 · page 2

Our popular townsman, Mr R. J. Woodward, had the misfortune to get his hand severely cut last week. He was working his new International…

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Elbing Collision. Enemy Cruiser's End. Hit a Torpedo Boat. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1916 · page 3

The Dutch trawler Berlin has landed survivors of the Elbing. The Germans confirmed the statement that the Elbing collided with a torpedo boat. Other…

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Local and General. Street Accident

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 7 June 1916 · page 2

On Saturday evening, two cyclists Mr Angelo Bachali, proprietor of the Marathon Saloon, and Master Jock Dickson, son Mr J, Dickson,…

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Disastrous Storm. American States Swept. 126 KILLED, 100 Injured. Washington

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 June 1916 · page 4

A terrible storm has swept over the States of Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Bilnois. A report from Kansas City, Missouri,…

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An Empire Calamity. The Drowning of Lord Kitchener

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 9 June 1916 · page 2

The British Empire mourns today the loss of her greatest living soldier and military organiser. Lord Kitchener…

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Terrible Disaster. Lord Kitchener and Staff Drowned. Died Doing His Duty. SYDNEY, Wednesday. noon

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 June 1916 · page 4

Warship Hampshire mined or submarined off the west of Orkneys. Lord Kitchener and the whole of his staff were on board…

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Sad Fatal Accident. at Yass Junction. Driver Killed

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 9 June 1916 · page 4

At midnight on Saturday, May 27, an accident occurred at Yass Junction, whereby one of the most reliable and trustworthy engine drivers…

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Serious Accident. a Midnight Collision

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1916 · page 2

A street accident, which resulted in serious injury to Harold Fearne, aged 20, occurred about midnight on Saturday…

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Slight Railway Collision. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1916 · page 3

A slight railway collision occurred at Liverpool this morning, as a result of which one carriage was partly smashed, while the sides were ripped out of two…

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