Railway Collision Ten Passengers Injured Electrical Apparatus Fused Sydney
Two passenger trains collided in the heavy rain, at Killara railway station, shortly before noon. Ten persons were injured. The electrical…
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Accidents, 1931
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Level Crossing Smash Fourteen Killed, Twenty Injured. Paris
A motor bus full of workmen struck a train at a level crossing at Fromelles and overturned the engine. Fourteen bus passengers were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Collision During Aerial Salute Two Officers Killed Crash Seen by Woman Picking Primroses. London
The Air Ministry announces that Air Vice-Marshal Felton Vessy Holt, Air Officer commanding the lighting area of the air defence of Great Britain, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lightning Flash Three Men Injured Windows Shattered. Sydney
Three men were injured by a flash or lightning which struck a tree at Warrie-wood, near Mona Vale. One man, who was working at his home near the tree, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Drowned Went to Rescue of Man Seaweed Fouled Lifeline. Sydney
George Smith Greenwell, 17, of Killara, was drowned in attempting a surf rescue at Collaroy Beach this afternoon. Greenwell, with his brother, and another…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidental Death. London
A jury returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest concerning the death of Air Vice-Marshal Holt and Flight Lieutenant Moody, who were killed as a result…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Drowned Fishing Boat Capsized. Auckland
Two men, George Williams, 29, married, with a wife and three children, and Jack Petifer, 33, married, and Bobby Parker, aged 14 were drowned just inside the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Long Trip Ambulance Visits Dorrigo Man Badly Injured
When Jack Hamilton, 24, a single man, employed by Mr. T. Smythe, at Megan was thrown from a horse against a log, he sustained a fractured thigh, fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shunter Killed Crushed Under Engine Accident Near Singleton. Singleton
Owen Smith, shunter, of Singleton, met with a shocking death at Allyndale last night when he was crushed under an engin that left the rails and topped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured in Attempt to Save Sister
In attempting to save her younger sister from falling at Spring Creek, near Toowoomba on Saturday afternoon, Iris Langton (aged 15 years) herself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycling Accident Riders' Lucky Escape
A motor cycle came to grief at Ulamarra yesterday afternoon, but fortunately, without any serious results. Sidney Munro, of Brushgrove, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nine Injured Car and Lorry Collide. Sydney
Nine persons were injured, several seriously, in a collision between a car and a motor - lorry at Lewisham to-day. The force of the impact flung the car across…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Machine Hits Fence Hardy in 'Plane Accident. Coonabarabran
Charles Hardy, junr., had a narrow escape from injury to-day when the plane in which he intended to travel to Coon- amble, struck a fence while taking off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schoolboy Drowned Father's Narrow Escape. Gloucester
Arthur Freeman, 7 years, was drowned in the Gloucester[?] River at Invergordo[?] where he was going to school. The river was in flood and the boy, held by his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Simple Accident
Mr. Joseph Hallett met with a painful accident on Wednesday. He was about to climb over the pound yard fence when he slipped on a stone and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Broken Finger Accident to Investigation Officer. Canberra
The Commonwealth Investigation Officer, Mr. Yates, who is visiting Canberra on special business which, so far, has been kept a close secret, met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Level Crossing Fatality. Me[?]lbourne
Edward Dowling was killed, and Joseph Jackson and Clifford Perry were injured, when an electric train from Heidelberg crashed into a motor truck loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in Four Inches of Water. Melbourne
William Joseph Cecini, 29, motor driver, of St. Arnaud was drowned in four inches of water on Wednesday night. He was crossing the railway line, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Naval Plant Wrecked Many Killed and Injured. Rio De Janeiro
Half of the 400 employees at the naval laboratory at Nichtheroy are reported to have been killed or injured to-day, when an explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drifted on Rocks N.Z. Steamer Ashore Men Reported Drowned Others Clinging to Wreckage. Auckland
The steamer Progress drifted on to the rocks in Ohiro Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand, last night and became a total wreck. Three men are…
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