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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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The East Fierce Fighting S.s. Geelong. Sunk in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 11

The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says Russia accepts the view that Roumania is not in a…

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MISADVENTURES Holiday Time Tragedies Two Girls Drowned in a Pool

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 4

A double drowning accident occurred at Narrandera on Sunday morning. when two young girls named Ivy Kippen, nineteen years old and Pauline Boyton,…

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Gales in Great Britain. Many Killed end Injured

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 4

There have been terrific gales in Great Britain. Nine persons were killed and twenty-three injured through the collapse of buildings and roofs…

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P. and O. Branch Liner Sunk in Collision in the Mediterranean

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 12

THE GEELONG-A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN SYDNEY HARBOUR…

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Driver's Prompt Action. Averts Motor Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 5

While James Ragan of park-road City, was driving his motor car south along George-street at noon to-day, a woman and a little girl about 6 or 7 years [?] cross the road near…

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Miraculous Escapes. Accidents in the Country

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 5

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Girl Overboard. Accident in Farm Cove. Good Rescue by Deckhands

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 4

when Jessie sherwood 11, who live in [?] Forest Lodge fell overboard from the larry steamer kai-kai in Farm Cove kast night, two deckhands, Arthur Ernest Reid of…

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A Fatal Driving Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 5

On Saturday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Webber and their two children were driving home to Ansley from Eden, hope (Vic) when the hope bolted and…

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Billiards in Eventful 1915 Review of the Green Cloth Year Gray's "Ivory" Thousands May Bring Restrictive Legislation The Sacrifice of Fire—When the Tables Go—Billiard Room Accidents Gray and Inman

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 14

The year 1915 just closed cannot be labelled as big in the history of billiards. There were greater things at stake than mere pastimes. The sport of blood-lust, the deadliest occupation…

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Narrow Escape. Motor Car Accident. Uralla

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 10

On Saturday night a party of young people were out for a spin in Mr. Arthur Carter's car, with Walter Vickers at the whool. When Bearing a railway crossing, about two miles…

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Pea-rifle Accident. Singleton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 13

Mrs. Pearl Warne, 20, of Jerry's Plains, was accidentally shot on Sunday. A boy was handling a pea-rifle, when it was discharged, the bullet striking Mrs. Warne in the abdomen…

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Accident to Farmer. Gulgong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 13

Mr. Burrows, a farmer, residing at Craboon, had his left arm taken off below the elbow by a chaffcutter this morning…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Killed on the Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 8

Robert Estell (61), brother of the Minister for Labor, a railway employee, living at Dora Street, Hurstville, left the Eveleigh workshops on Monday shortly after 7 p.m., and was making…

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Snake Causes Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 2

As a couple of district residents were driving into town in a sulky on Friday afternoon they met with a peculiar accident when nearing Cox's River Bridge, on…

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Accident in the Surf

Evening News · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 5

Th[?] ing in the surf at Bondi this morning. Ernest Marshall, 50, who lives in Avoca-street, Bondi, dislocated his left arm. He was treated at St. Vincent's Hospital…

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Tram Accident. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 9

Joseph M'Shane, residing in Linda-street, Wickham, attempted to alight from a moving tram this afternoon when he fell between the car and the motor, the wheels of the car…

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Fatal Lift Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 9

A vedict of accidental death was returned by the City Coroner (Mr. H. S. Hawkins) concerning the death of George Teale, 58, of 11 Hopewell-street, Paddington, who was crushed…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Brave Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 January 1916 · page 9

While on a trip from Milson's Point to Sydney, on the ferry steamer Kaikal, at 10.30 on Tuesday night, Jessie Sherwood (14). of 69 Arundel Street, Forest Lodge, fell overboard…

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Little Boy Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 12

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the City Coroner (Mr. H. S. Hawkins) in the case of Leonard Creer, aged 8, of Watson's Bay, who fell from the ferry wharf at…

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Rabbit Cause Gun Fatality

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 7 January 1916 · page 2

William Charis Fenton, aged 34, qa resident of Lidcombe, and employed as a boilermaker a Eveleigh, died in the Bathurst hospital, as the result of an…

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