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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1917

2,136 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 107

Accidents at Flemington

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 March 1917 · page 6

Only two of the seven runners in the Autumn Steeplechase at Flemington yesterday successfully negotiated the course. Canadium was killed by his fall, and Ramoth had a shoulder…

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Tram Accidents

The Sun · Sunday 11 March 1917 · page 2

William Don, aged, 40, a painter, living in Albion-street, city, was knocked down by a tram in Elizabeth-street, near Campbell-street, yesterday afternoon,…

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Railway Collision. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 7

A railway collision occurred at Binna Burra last night between soma trucks of a goods train and the engine. The train had been divided for the purpose of…

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Collision in a Fog. Transport Sunk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 7

The War Office announces that the transport Mendl (4230 tons), with the final batch of South African native labourers, collided with another vessel in a thick fog, off the Isle of…

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Baby Boy Drowned. Tragedy at Woy Woy. [?]

Evening News · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 5

At [?] Point. Was [?] the 17 months old [?] Mrs J. T. Napier, of [?] was drowned [?]…

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Fatal Riding Accident

Evening News · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 5

Miss Birdie Norman, 22, second youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Norman. of [?] was [?] from her horse while…

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Fatal Tram Accident in City

Evening News · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 5

The man who was knocked down and severely injured in E[?]-street, City, by a tram on Saturday afternoon, has been identified as Norman Don. 49. a painter, of Albion-street…

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Fatal Riding Accident. Bowral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 8

On Friday afternoon Miss Birdie Norman, second youngest daughter of Mr. J. W. Norman, was thrown heavily from her horse to the roadway, and sustained a fracture…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Fell From a Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 6

Thomas Fitzgerald (31), of Malcolm Street, Drummoyne, fell from a moving tram in George Street, Camperdown, on Saturday afternoon, and received concussion of the brain and injuries to…

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Colliery Fatality. Roof Falls In. One Man Killed and Two Injured. [?] Afternoon

Evening News · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 5

By a fall of [?] Coll[?] early this morning [?] Kelly was killed, the deputy [?] fracture of one of [?]…

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Mine Accident Two Men Dead South Coast Fatality Wollongong

The Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 3

A fatal accident occurred at Coledale Colliery this morning. Repairs were being effected to the roof of the mine, when a quantity of stone came away. One man…

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A Peculiar Accident. Man Killed in a Collision with a Woman

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

On Wednesday evening last a man named Jas. Watson M'Kcown, living in Lindfield (Sydney), was running across Circular Quay during a rainstorm, when…

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Drowned in Flooded River. An Engineer's Death in Queensland

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

A man named James More, chief engineer at Bush Bros., Invicta (Q.) Sugar Mill, and another employee, named Jack Ryan, in a sulky, attempted to cross the…

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A Woman Fatally Injured. By a Fall from a Buggy

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

While driving to Berrigan (N.S.W.) on Saturday, Mrs. Butcher, wife of Mr. Samuel Butcher, a farmer, met with a fatal accident. She leaned forward to…

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A Child Accidentally Shot

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

A little girl named Joan Macdonald was accidentally shot dead at Manilla (N.S.W.) last week. Her brother, who was ten years old, was putting a…

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MISADVENTURES Several Fatal Accidents a Young Woman Thrown From Horse

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

On Friday afternoon Miss Birdie Norman, second youngest daughter of Mr. J. W. Norman, of Bowral (N.S.W.), was thrown heavily from her horse to the…

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Accident on the Aramac

Evening News · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 3

The [?] Company [?] in the interstate [?] on Monday [?]…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 8

William Dow, 40, lately residing at No. 5 Albion-street, Surry Hills, who was knocked down and crushed by a tram in Ellzabothstreet, near Campbell-street, on Saturday…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Fatal Tram Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 6

Norman Don, of 5 Albion Street, Surry Hills, was crossing Elizabeth Street, near Campbell Street, City, on Saturday afternoon, when he was knocked down by a tram, the…

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Child Injured at Waverley

Evening News · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 4

[?] playing [?] home in [?] Thursday evening, [?] by [?] was taken to…

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