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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

2,604 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 131

The Clyde Fatality. a Soldier Falls From Train

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 4

The death of David Whan a member of the Expeditionary Forces, was inquired into at the Parramntta court on Friday. When was standing on the platform of…

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St. Kilda Riot Many Policemen Injured Twelve Men Charged Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 5

The St. Kilda Court was crowded to-day when evidence against 12 men who were alleged to have been concerned in the riot on Saturday night was taken. In the course…

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Fatal Motor Cycle Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 4

On Saturday morning in the Sydney Road, Parkville, near Melbourne, Charles Cook, senior clerk at the Vacuum Oil Com pan y, was killed instantly in a motor…

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MISADVENTURES Road and Rail Accidents a Mysterious Taxi Cab Smash

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 4

A taxi cab, carrying the driver and Mr. William Armitage, of Rockdale, his wife, daughter, and Miss M'Lean, ran into a bridge on the Rocky Point road, Ar[?]…

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Another Revolver Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 4

A number of Tamway workers were practising with a revolver at Holt's Flat, Bombala, lodging in the chest of a young…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Accidental Death

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 January 1916 · page 6

The City Coroner yesterday morning held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death, at Sydney Hospital, of William Joseph Cooper, on January 10. The deceased had…

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Bathing Fatality. Woman and Boy Drowned. Wingham

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 13

A double drowning fatality occurred at Kararak Flat, near Wingham, on Monday afternoon, whoroby Mrs. Duncan and her brother, George Hudson, lost their lives while…

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Fatalities & Accidents. Newcastle Bathing Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The Newcastle beach surf, which for about five years has been immune from bathing fatalities, had that record broken to-day when a lad of 17 years was…

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Motor Car Accident Two Persons Injured

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 7

The steering gear of a motor car driven by Leslie Gordon Lyon, York road, Waverley, along Liverpool road, Burwood, towards Sydney yesterday afternoon, broke, with the…

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Drowned in the Surf. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 14

Frederick Morley, 17 years of age, residing with his grandmother in Hargrave-street, Carrington, was surf-bathing on Newcastle beach at 1.30 this afternoon, when he was…

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Motor Smash at Burwood. Two Men Injured

Evening News · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 4

A motor car smashed into a tram standard in Liverpool-road, [?], yesterday morning, and as a result [?] Lyon, who lives in York-road [?] and private…

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Burwood Tram Accident. Death of the Driver

Evening News · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 1

Through falling off his tram in Burwood-road. Burwood, on the afternoon of Tuesday, january 11, and fracturing his shall, John Henderson, 36 a tram driver, who lived in Boyle-street…

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A Peculiar and Sao Accident

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 7

In 1905, a boy named Lunn was killed during a cricket match at Brockc[?] Hampshire, under peculiar circumstances. He was struck in the face by a ball and…

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Fatal Lorry Accident West Maitland

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 7

James Smith, aged 23, who was thrown from a lorry on the East Maitland road and kicked on tho skull by a horse on Monday morning, died this morning in the Mailand…

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The Coogee Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 11

Mr. R. C. Robinson, who met with the accident in the surf at Coogee on Sunday last, whereby his shoulder was dislocated, denies that he received any assistance from the St…

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Accidents. a Berowra Fatality

Co-operator · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 2

A man named Henry Bruce, aged 36. was run over by a train and killed near Berowra on Sunday morning, presumably by the…

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Fettler's Wife Drowned

Co-operator · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 2

A Wingham (Manning River) telegram reports the death, of Mrs Duncan, wife of fettler Duncan, and her brother, a lad fourteen years of…

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Collision at Newcastle

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 4

A message received from Newcastle states that while the ketch Wave was lying at No. 5 crane yesterday afternoon the barque Daniel, which was…

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A Collision at Sea

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 January 1916 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A, decision was given this afternoon. in the Marine Court with regard to the charge of incompetence preferred against Frederick Summers, third officer of the…

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