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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

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Two Boys Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

Author Hayden, aged thirteen years, was drowned while bathing at Gulargain Lone (N.S.W.) bridge on Sunday. On Tuesday Arthur [?] aged…

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Girl Drowned. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 8

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Oswin, with their two children, were bathing in the Mary River, near Ammamoor Crook, on Tuesday afternoon, when the children got into difficulties…

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Railway Collision London, Thursday Night

The Sun · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 6

A passenger train crowded with holiday makers collided with a light engine between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Twelve deaths have occurred as the result…

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Queensland Disaster. Over Forty People Drowned

The Land · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 12

A message received from Brisbane early in the week gives meagre details of a big disaster at Clermont, in Central Queensland, where owing to floods, three…

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Drowned in Harbour. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 8

At Bunbury, Peter Peterson, a coal-trimmer on a steamer at the jetty, announced he was going after a cat which fell overboard a few days previously, and that not all the…

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Zeppelins Destroyed. Result of Collision. Copenhagen, Thursday Night

Evening News · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 5

The newspapers state in regard to the reported destruction by fire of two Zeppelins at their hangers at [?] in Schleswig, that the [?] caught fire as the result of a…

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Tragedy in Kyogle Mother Dead; Son Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 6

KYOGLE, Thursday.—The police received an urgent call yesterday from Horsesho Creek. It appears that a boy was discovered with his throat cut. His mother, Kate Alit, was…

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Dived Eight Times. Abbotsford Baths Fatality. Story Told at Inquest

Evening News · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 5

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Two Zeppelins Burnt Collision When Leaving Sheds LONDON, Thursday Night

The Sun · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 1

Reuter's representative at Copenhagen reports that two Zeppelins have been destroyed by fire at Tondern, Schleswig. The Copenhagen "National Tidende" states…

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A Bega Farmer Drowned. In a well on the Town Common

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

John Pearce, a well known farmer of Be[?] (N.S.W.), was found drowned in a well on the town common. A widow and family survive…

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Railway Disaster in Scotland. Eleven Killed, Forty Injured. London, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 8

Eleven persons were killed and forty injured in an accident to a crowded passenger train. It crashed into a light engine near Rathe Station, between Edinburgh and Glasgow…

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Fatal Misadventures Shocking Railway Accident at Doonside. a Man Mutilated and Killed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred on the railway line at Doonside (N.S.W.) on Wednesday. The driver of a Penrith to Sydney train noticed a man walking along…

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Fatalities & Accidents. Knocked Down by a Horse

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 6

An unmanageable young horse was the cause of an accident at North Sydney about half-past 3 yesterday afternoon, which resulted in Arthur Bock (64). a bread-carter sustaining a fractured…

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General Cables. Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 5

LONDON. Thursday.—Eleven people were killed and 40 injured in a railway accident, when a crowded passenger train crashed light engine near Rathe station between…

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Railway Fatality

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

On Wednesday morning last (3rd January) a man, whose name we have been unable to discover, had the misfortune to lose his life tragically…

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Building Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

A sad accident happened at the end of last week to Kenneth Goodman, a fine intelligent child four years of age son of…

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Our Mayor's Relatives. Two Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 11

Several of the victims of the storms in the Orange district, to the identity of some of whom we made reference last week:— were relatives of Mayor F. J…

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Little Girl Killed Motor Accident at Newtown Another Child Seriously Injured

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

As the result of a motor accident this morning in King-street, Newtown, a five-year-old girl was killed instantly, while another child, a little girl of nine years old,…

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Motor Accident at Newt[?]w Little Girl Killed. Another One Seriously Injured

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 3

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The Phantom Ship. Strange Sequel to Irish Steamer Collision

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 7

The terrible tragedy off the County Down coast of Ireland when the L. and N.W. Railway Company's steamer the Connemara and the Retriever…

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