Fatalities and Accidents. Knocked Down by Motor Cycle
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1916 · page 8
Jack May (14). living in Richard Street, Newtown, was knocked down by a motor cycle while crossing King Street, Newtown, yesterday. The Newtown District Ambulance took him to the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 6
The Acting City Coroner, Mr. A. Gates, cenducted a magisterial inquiry yesterday into the death of Roy Merton Stephens, 27 years of age, single, who was drowned in the…
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The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 4
Four drowning fatalities took place in Victoria during lost week-end, the victim in each case being a boy. At Mordialloc on Sunday afternoon Clarence Dwan and…
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The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 4
The body of John Teller, recently employed as a shop-walker at Scott's, Ltd. Newcastle, was found on Sunday floating fully clothed in the channel near the…
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The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 4
It is reported from Laurienton (N.S.W.) that an accident to an to an oil launch on Saturday, resulted in three men being drowned. The launch was the Sea Bird,…
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The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 4
At the deviation works, Sodwalls, on Thursday, several wooden supports for brick arches, now being erected in connection with the bridge at that place,…
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The Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 6
The men who were wounded in the affray at the railway station last night were taken to the Garrison Hospital. Private Body, who was knocked out by a baton stroke, regained…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 6
The body of a man named John Telfer was found in Lake Macquarie, at Swanses [?] Sunday. Fishing tackle was picked up close by. Deceased was recently in…
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The Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 5
The Sydney Hospital medical staff was kept busy from 5.30 o'clock yesterday until an early hour this morning dealing with cases arising out of the extensive rioting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Constable Injured. Struck with Bottle of Beer
Evening News · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 1
A bottle full of beer [?] with deadly [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Launch Disaster. Seabird Capsizes on the Bar. Three Men Drowned. Laurieton
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 8
Pilot CtereteKo when interviewed regarding the launch fatality here, said that the Seabird crossed out at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning. The bar was then good. When the…
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The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 4
Five British soldiers were killed and thirty-one wounded through the accidental of a bomb while an officer was instruction in bomb-throwing at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Law Report. in Banco. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice Ferguson.) Accident at a Coal. Mine. Holland v North Bulli Colliery, Ltd
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 6
Mr. Watt and Mr. Tighe, instructed by Messrs. Cecil Coghlan and Co, appeared for the appeliant (plaintiff); and Mr. Rolin, K.C., and Mr. Curtis, instructed by Messrs. Sly…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 6
Edwin Smith, a settler, went out shooting with a Winchester rifle on Saturday, and when he did not return at night a search party was organised. The body of Smith,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 6
Two miners—John Pyas (44), living at Macquarie Terrace, Balmain, and James Pringle (49), living at Thomas Street, Balmain, were buried in a tall of burning ashes at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Industrial. a Sickness and Accident Fund
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1916 · page 3
Mr. Justice Heydon, in the Industrial Arbitration Court, gave Judgment in the stated case, Gregory against Scotts, Limited. In this case, his Honor said the defendant had boon prose…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1916 · page 2
The body of Mrs. Edith Wheeler, wife of Mr. G. W. Wheeler, of Epping, was recovered on Sunday morning from a deep waterhole in Devlin Creek, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasmanian Railway Accident. Four Killed, Twelve Injured
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1916 · page 8
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Information was received in Melbourne to-night from private sources that the express train running on the main line from Launceston to Hobart had been…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1916 · page 15
The Department of Navigation has received it report of the collision between the State trawlers Gunundaai and Koraaga. The Koraaga was lying at No. 5, Woolloomooloo, and the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 February 1916 · page 11
The body of James Stanton, employed on Condonlong station, was found in Adelong creek this morning. It is surmised that the unfortunate young follow went in to bat[?]e,…
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