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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

2,604 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 131

Fatalities & Accidents. Woman's Throat Cut

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 February 1916 · page 10

Mrs. Sophia Louisa Darnell (83), living in Crystal Street, Petersham, was found dead by her husband yesterday, with her throat cut. The deceased borrowed her husband's…

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Eighty-three Miles Inland Zeppelin Raid on Britain Many Killed and Injured Bombs on Towns and Rural Districts Appam Reaches America German Prize Crew in Charge 549th Day of the War Zeppelins' Dash 83 Miles Into England Fifty=four People Killed Total Casualties, 121 (Published in the Times) LONDON, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 2 February 1916 · page 1

The Official Press Bureau announces that the Zeppelin raid on Monday, was attempted on an extensive scale. The raiders were…

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Fireman Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 10

A telegram was received by the Navigation Department yesterday from the pilot at Kiama, stating that the steamer Bermagul reported that a fireman named James Paxton…

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Fettler Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 10

A railway fettler named William O'Le[?] living in Read-street, Waverley, was bafd[?] injured while on the railway line near the Illawarra Junction yesterday afternoon. He…

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Woman Drowned at Cronulla

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 3

[?] unknown woman, between [?] washed up by the [?] on Wednesday morning [?] half-a-mile from the…

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A Soldier Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 10

Henry Burrell, 19, a soldier from Liverpool Camp, was thrown from a sulky in Liverpool-street last night, his head striking a telegraph post. The Civil Ambulance took him…

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Taxi Cab Accident Three Persons Injured Newcastle

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 7

Shortly before 12 o'clock last night, taxicab 28, in charge of Leslie, Lightfoot, crashed into a rail which guards the A.A. Company's coal line, near St. Andrew's Church…

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Zeppelin Paid. Many Killed and Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--It is officially announced that 54 people wore killed and 67 injured in the last Zeppelin raid on the eastern. north-eastern, and midland counties…

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Japanese Steamer Sunk Collision Off Cape Rage London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 7

The British steamer Silver Shell and the Japanese steamer Takata Maru collided when 200 miles south- east of Cape Race, the southeastern extremity of Newfoundland, on…

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Geelong Disaster Story of the Collision Dodging a Submarine Fremantle

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 6

Aboard the R.M.S. Medina, which arrived yesterday, were some stewards and deck hands, survivors of the Geelong, which was sunk in the mediterranean last month owing…

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Motor Accident at Newtown

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 5

William Healey [?] Dawas Point was [?] King-street. New[?] morning, when the [?]…

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Serious Accident. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 10

A serious accident happened to a man named Malcolm Ross at the Ironworks last night. While working on the hot shears he in some way got his arm under the blades,…

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Accidents

Co-operator · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 5

Norman McKenzie, a member of the expeditionary forees, attached to the 4th Battalion at Liverpool, met with a painful accident on…

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Fatalities & Accidents. Knocked Down by a Train

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 6

"While working on the permanent way near the Illawarra junction yesterday, William O'Leary, a fettler, living in Read Street, "Waverley was struck by a passing train, and…

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Two Children Drowned. Fatality at Wentworth. Wentworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 10

Two girls named Olive and Bortha Schu[?] aged respectively 10 and 2 years, were accidentally drowned in the Murray yesterday while bathing Blanche Schultz, 8, and…

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Sheep Drowned

The Land · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 15

Two hundred sheep, the property of Mr. Palmer, Forbes, were overtaken by flood waters whilst grazing in low-lying country near Farnham, and were…

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Two Girls Drowned

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 6

Two girls aged 4 and 5 respectively, daughters at Mr. [?] of Wentworth, were drowned in the Murray River While bathing on Wednesday. Their parents lived close to the river…

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Fatality at White City

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 1

While working on a ladder 35ft above the ground at the White City last night. Arthur Taylor, 31, an attendant, who lived in Elfred-street, Paddington, tell and fractured his skull,…

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Hurt in a Collision

The Sun · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 5

In a collision between a tram and a cart in Botany -road, Waterloo, this morning, Mrs. Maud Cheetham, 30 years of age, of Wilson street, Botany, was struck on the side by a…

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Drowned in a Rain Tub

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 4

The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farrand, of Forbes, was drowned on Saturday morning in a tub of rain water. The child got out of bed and crawled…

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