Drowned in Undertow. Newcastle
William Keith Wallace, aged seven years, while bathing at Stockton Beach, Newcastle, was carried out by a strong undertow and was drowned…
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Accidents, 1928
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Man Drowned Sad Occurrence at Leigh Caught in Flooded Creek
Mr. Archibald Perry, aged about 41, who was a stranger to the district, was drowned in Kirton's Creek, Leigh, on Sunday afternoon last. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor' Car Accidents Judge Edwards' Comment. Sydney
Mervyn Madden was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Judge Edwards, at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, on a charge of having caused bodily harm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowning Fatality Boat Swamped at Tweed Heads Murwillumbah Citizen Loses Tweed Heads
A distressing drowning fatality occurred here at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon when ex-Alderman J. M. Holston, one of the leading and best…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fractured Thigh Injured Unloading Car
Mr. Walter Kratz, a farmer residing near Lower Coldstream bridge, sustained a fractured thigh, while assisting to unload a motor car at the South Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Sinks Collision in Channel Twenty Lives Believed Lost. London
The P. and O. steamer Moldavia in response to S.O.S. picked up a man in the English Channel, whose life was nearly extinct, among a large quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Shot Bullet in Back Occurrence Believed Accidental. Sydney
John William Shannon, 15, on Enfield, was shot with a bullet from a 22 calibre Winchester repeating rifle, near Enfield railway yards last night, and he is now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harbor Bridge Accident. Sydney
While working on the Sydney Harbor bridge, William Woods, laborer, slipped and fell 70 feet to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Surfing Fatality at Ballina
A surfing fatality occurred at South Beach, Banina, shortly after 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Ernest Talbot Willows, a married, man, from Lismore, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Killed Motor Cars in Collision. Goulburn
Vera Wray, 27, of Goulburn, was killed and Jack Slender, of Sydney, seriously injured when a motor car in which they were travelling capsized near Joppa…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Callous Motorist Smashed Sulky Injured Occupant. Sydney
The Liverpool police are searching for the driver of a ear which struck a sulky on the main southern road about, midnight on Saturday. Both shafts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boiler Bursts Explosion in Bakehouse Man Seriously Injured. Sydney
A boiler exploded in a bakehouse, attached to A. D. Judge's baker's shop, Hornsby, to-day. Austin John Spratt, 26, was hurled across the room. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Survivor The Channel Collision Sinking of the Alcantara Engineer's Story of Disaster. London
Giovanni Pavon, 28, engineer of the steamer Alcantara, and the sole survivor of the steamer which sunk after colliding with the Tovarisch in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Traffic Accidents in 1927
A remarkable, feature about the official traffic accident returns just issued, says the N.R.M.A., is that while motor vehicles in New South Wales increased by 23 per…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Young Man Fatally Injured. Sydney
Harry Bailey, 24, of Leiehhardt, was seriously injured in a collision between a motor car and motor cycle at Haberfield last night. His right leg had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Hits Tram Police Search for Driver Two Women Injured. Sydney
Two women passengers on a Canterbury bound'tram were injured, one seriously, when a motor car collided with a tram last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist Drowned Car Runs Off Punt Two Brothers Meet Death in Dam. Broken Hill
A telegram was received last night from Pooncarrie intimating that Daniel Yord, formerly a well-known publican at Broken Hill, was crossing the liver in a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Echo of Car Collision Claim for Damages Succeeds Weatherstone v. SMITH
Before Acting Judge Maxwell, at the Grafton District Court yesterday, A. Weatherstone, car proprietor, claimed £36 damages from Colin Smith, of Penrith…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Russians Looked on Coroner's Scratchings Comment "Men Drowning Under Their Very Noses." London
At the inquest into the sinking of the Alcantara, which went down with a crew of 20 after a collision in the English channel with the Russian steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tyre Blow-out Causes Accident
Four persons were more or less seriously injured in a car accident which occurred on Wallangarra road, about three miles from Tenterfield, on Sunday…
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