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Daily News
Year End Review - 1917
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The records were transcribed by JOHN BAIRD Formatted by GEORGE WHITE
While we have endeavored to be as
correct as humanly possible, there could be some typographical errors.
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January 02, 1917 | Samuel and John Porter, Burgeo, drowned whilst gunning. |
| January 09, 1917 | Richard Randall, Alexander Bay, accidentally killed at Grand Falls, 45. |
| January 11, 1917 | "Leonard Durnford, Burin, 21 drowned off the schooner Defender.
Pierce Carew, Cape Broyle, 65, suicide." |
| January 20, 1917 | George Malden, Brigus, accidentally injured in Boston, died the following day. |
| January 26, 1917 | Denis J Sullivan, killed on Water Street by a runaway horse. |
| January 29, 1917 | Arthur Wicks, Loo Cove, B.B., accidentally shot dead, 18. |
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| February 05, 1917 | Disastrous railway accident ten miles East of Glenwood. Eight burned to death. Others injured. |
| February 19, 1917 | Capt. James Burke, one of Newfoundlander’s first Naval Reservists, died by accident in Chile. |
| February 20, 1917 | "Young woman named Crowley, drowned at Pouch Cove.
Capt. Jeremiah Callahan drowned at sea." |
| February 23, 1917 | Mate Shannahan of the Artizan, drowned at Malaga. |
| February 26, 1917 | "Arthur Angel, 19, drowned at Petty Harbor.
Patrick Hynes, Clattice Harbor, drowned." |
| February 28, 1917 | Body of John Fitzgerald of Salmonier, found by Mailman. |
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| March 02, 1917 | Daniel Connors killed by landslide in Terra Nova Mine, Baie Verte. |
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| April 02, 1917 | Explosion at D.L & S. Co. Plant, Bell Island. William Hennessey of Kelligrews, killed and two seriously injured. |
| April 04, 1917 | William Tucker and another Elliston man, lost their lives in the ice. |
| April 07, 1917 | Joseph Jacobs, Walter Jacobs, Stephen Jacobs, Frank Pomeroy, William Freake and Herbert Freake all of Joe Batt’s Arm, lost on the ice. |
| April 11, 1917 | Peter Fitzgerald, Town Councillor, Bell Island, killed by an explosion. |
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| May 02, 1917 | James Chaytor, Grand Falls, accidentally killed. |
| May 15, 1917 | Nicholas Conran, Corner Brook, Bay of Island, drowned. |
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| June 06, 1917 | John Colbourne, Josiah Colbourne, Titus Stockley and Doyal Wilt, of Purcell’s Harbor, Notre Dame Bay, drowned. |
| June 12, 1917 | Richard and Dominic Jennings, drowned at Caplin Bay, Codroy. |
| June 28, 1917 | Banker Revenue arrives with body of Albert Wentzel, who died in his dory. |
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| July 05, 1917 | Isaac Winsor, accidentally killed at Tilt Cove. |
| July 12, 1917 | Thirteen year old lad named Brown, drowned at Stephenville Crossing. |
| July 13, 1917 | Denis Power of Bay Roberts, killed at East Wabana. |
| July 21, 1917 | George William Holland, 30, drowned in Quidi Vidi pond. |
| July 23, 1917 | James Snook, Grand Bank, 16, accidentally killed. |
| July 25, 1917 | Mine explosion at New Waterford, Cape Breton Island, 50 killed, of whom 22 were Newfoundlanders. |
| July 26, 1917 | Simon Ward of Gambo, 20, drowned at Millertown. |
| July 27, 1917 | Augustus Manuel, 23, drowned at Campbellton. |
| July 28, 1917 | Thomas Bowen, fisheries Warden, found dead at Holyrood Pond. |
| July 29, 1917 | Joseph Fagan and David Dobbin, St. Mary’s, drowned by upsetting of their boat. |
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| August 04, 1917 | George Osmond, 16, instantly killed by machinery at Grand Falls. |
| August 07, 1917 | Patrick D Curtis, Trepassey, drowned when at work on the wrecked steamer Kristaniaford. |
| August 13, 1917 | Girl named Edgecomber, of Little Catalina, aged 12, burned to death. |
| August 23, 1917 | Robert Dalton, Catalina, dies as result of a shooting accident. |
| August 26, 1917 | Motor car tragedy on Goulds Road, whereby Mrs. Ethel Chafe and two children were killed. |
| August 31, 1917 | Eight year old boy named Hicks, accidentally killed at Bonavista. |
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| September, 1917 | John Wesley Edwards, drowned at Fogo. |
| September 14, 1917 | Henry Candie, Warrant Officer at Marconi Station, accidently killed. |
| September 16, 1917 | Mrs. John MacDonald, Salmonier, 83, accidently killed. |
| September 17, 1917 | James Yetman and William Armstrong killed at the Blast Furnace in Sydney. |
| September 26, 1917 | John Murray, Fox Harbor, Placentia Bay, drowned in St John’s Harbor. |
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| October 02, 1917 | Bodies of Benoit and two sons, Conn River, found in advance stage of decomposition. |
| October 12, 1917 | William Crowley, Harbor Main, 18, killed at the Nova Scotia Steel Plant, Sydney. |
| October 23, 1917 | Pierce Cantwell, 16, crushed between cars on the A.N.D. Co’s. Plant, Grand Falls. |
| October 25, 1917 | "William Clarke, Dunfield, 56, suicides.
Alma Mead, 12, burned to death at Burgeo, through accidently setting fire to her clothes." |
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| November 02, 1917 | Arthur Abbott, 5, drowned at Sandy Point. |
| November 06, 1917 | "Edmund King, Perry’s Cove, killed in Dominion No.1 Mine, East Wabana.
John Harris, Rose Blanche, accidentally shot by a companion when out gunning.
William Quilty of Crabbes, 21, killed at Port au Port Quarries.
Henry Barrett, 45, found dead on the New Harbor Road." |
| November 08, 1917 | Mrs. Winfred Davis, Newbridge, Salmonier, found dead in her berth on arrival of Portia. |
| November 09, 1917 | Patrick Thatchell, Bartlett’s Harbor, drowned at Port au Chois. |
| November 10, 1917 | Mrs Emily Noseworthy died from injuries received through fire. |
| November 16, 1917 | Jacob Butt, Grand Falls, 27, accidentally shot himself when deer-stalking. |
| November 17, 1917 | "William Vinnicombe, 40, drowned in St. John’s Harbor.
Mrs. Minnie Rendell drowned at Grand Falls." |
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| December 07, 1917 | Capt Strickland, with 4 of the crew of the schooner Phoebe, lost on the Rose Blanche Banks. |
| Monday, December 10, 1917 | Four lads, aged from 7 to 9, drowned at Mundy’s Pond, by falling through thin ice. |
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