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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

2,136 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 107

Fatal Biding Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1917 · page 5

The Liverpool Coroner held an inquiry on Thursday afternoon concerning the death of Mrs. Fanny Gloria Endacott, wife of the liceusee of the Family Hotel…

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Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1917 · page 6

The accidents reported at the Parramatta District Hospital during the last few days are as follows:— Peter Payne, a little child from Baulkham Hills, was…

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Casualties. Labourer Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 6

As a result of having fallen over the cliffs in Ferry-street, Balmain, Yesterday evening, Henry Osterland, 26, a labourer, who lives [?] Mullins-street, Balmain, sustained a…

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Hospital Patient Drowned. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 6

Alfred Austin, a patient of the Wellington Hospiatl. has been drowned in the Macquarie River…

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Injured by Fall at Balmain

Evening News · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 4

[?] Outerland, X, a laborer, living in [?]-street, Balmain, was going to the swimming baths yesterday afternoon, when he fall over a cliff in Terry-street, Balmain, and…

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Brutal Assaults Boys Waylaid at Manly Rescuer Injured

The Sun · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 6

Three boys, Carlton Walter, aged 16, John Walter, aged 15, and Jan Brown, aged 15, who live in North Steyne, Manly, were tho victims of a cowardly and brutal assault near…

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Gun Accident. West Wyalong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 6

A young man named Luke Ma[?]loy, a res[?]dent of West Wyalong, while out duck shooting, was getting hurriedly through a wire f[?]nce when the gun exploded, with the result…

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Fatalities & Accidents. Over the Cliffs

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 February 1917 · page 6

August Johanson, a wharf laborer, living at 165 St. John's Road, Globe, foil over the cliffs at Dawes Point and sustained a fracture of the skull and of the right forearm. He was…

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Found Drowned. Clifton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 8

An open verdict of found drowned was returned by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. Kirby, yesterday in the case of an unknown woman who was found on Patterson's Beach, near…

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Slight Collision at the Heads

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 8

Last Saturday morning a slight collision occurred off South Reef between the steamer Victoria and an American four-masted schooner. It…

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Man Injured at Dawe's Point

Evening News · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 5

Charles [?] H. of A[?]idale [?] mercury at Dawen point was severely injured this morning through a de[?] collapsing and calling on…

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Week-End Misadventures a Country Priest Drowned at Coogee, Victim of the Surf

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 4

At the Coogee (Sydney) baths on Thursday, the Rev. Charles Donnelly, assistant priest at Temorn (N.S.W.), disappeared. lie was in Sydney on a…

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A Man's Neck Broken, Result of a Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 4

A man named W. J. Wallace was leaning against a wire clothes line at Tarce (N.S.W.) When the line broke and he fell heavily on his back. He dislocated…

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Train Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--When the North Coast train from Sydney, due here at 5.25 p.m.. was at Tuggerah, a break-down occurred. An axle of the engine broke, and the train was…

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Railway Fatality. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 14

As the Sydney mail train was approaching a crossing about a mile end a half from the Albury racecourse, at mid-day to-day, the driver, Samuel George Shepard, noticed a man…

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The Recent Collision. Vessel in Dock

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 2

The Japanese steamer which the Heroic collided with in Sydney Harbour last week was yesterday taken to dock for inspection. It is reported that…

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The Courts. Civil. Collision in Erskine Street

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 9

Judge Docker disposed of a couple of actions in the District Court yesterday, arising out of a collision between a lorry and a sulky in Erskine Street on September 27 last. The…

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Chinese Injured Motor Cyclist Committed for Trial

Evening News · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 1

[?] Steward Balley, 30, [?] Central Police Court this morning [?] charge of motor cycle [?] to Hee Lee, by [?]…

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Mining Fatality Rescuers' Narrow Escape Man Buried Twice West Maitland

The Sun · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 6

Benjamin John, aged 29, was killed in Abermain Colliery yesterday afternoon. Deceased and his brother, William John, with several others, had completed a shift, when one of…

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