Tragedy at Albury. Young Woman Drowned. at Salvation Army Picnic. Sydney
A sad fatality occurred yesterday in connection with the annual picnic of the Salvation Army. About 500 people visited the…
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Accidents, 1911
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Shooting Accident at Glenelg. Adelaide
Charles R. Colyer was standing outside a tent at Glenelg yesterday afternoon at the time a performer within the tent was firing with a rifle at…
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Horace Gamlane, of Kensington, was rescued from drowning at Henley Beach yesterday by Gordon Cruickshank (13). Gamlane had to receive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at Port Adelaide. Winchdriver Injured on Steamer. Adelaide
Robert Murphy, aboard the steamer Netherlee, at Port Adelaide, was driving a winch yesterday, when a ringbolt gave way causing him to be thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Fatality. in West Australia. Kalgoorlie
An accident occurred at Block.45 lease, at the Oroya Links, yesterday. Two-miners, Henry Oates and W. Neal, descended the shaft to the 400ft…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria. a Constable Injured. Melbourne
Mounted-constable Jones, of Bacchus Marsh, was struck on the head with a beer bottle while endeavoring to arrest one of three men who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Fatality. Telegraph Operator the Victim. Sydney
Patrick E. Linegar, a telegraph operator living at Hornsby, lost his life yesterday. He was travelling by a special train, and after leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kentucky Railway Collision. Six People Killed. [Reuter's Message.] Vancouver
Six people were killed yesterday in a train wreck on the Miller Creek rail-road (Kentucky) in a collision between a passenger train and some coal cars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Youths Drowned. in a Veritable Death Trap. Adelaide
Louis Charles Parker, aged 15, and George Hood, aged 10, both living at Parkside, were drowned in the Torrens yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor-car Fatality. Wheel Passes Over Schoolboy's Body. Death Almost Instantaneous. Sydney
Henry M'Pherson, a schoolboy, lately residing at Sutherland, was run over by a motor-car at Sutherland on Sunday, received injuries which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Second Edition. Aviation Accidents. [Reuter's Message.] Flyers and Death. Famous Men Killed. London
France has offered up still another victim to the conquest of the air. To-day Lieutenant de Caumont was monoplaning at Versailles. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Drowning Case. Adelaide
Still another drowning case in the Torrens is reported. The body of a man named, Frederick Bodderly was found in the river, near Frome-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Picnic Party's Experience. Narrow Escape From Drowning. Sydney
E. M'Kerihan, a storekeeper at Casino, his wife, son, and two little daughters had a sensational experience and narrow escape from drowning while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Fatalities at Kalgoorlie Accident at Golden Horseshoe Mine. Three Men Injured. One Subsequently Dies
A deplorable accident occurred at the Golden Horseshoe mine, Kalgoorlie, on Tuesday night, one miner being fatally injured and two others seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram and Cart Collide. Driver of Cart Injured. the Horse Killed. Sydney
A collision occurred in George-street, Sydney, this morning between a tram and a fruiterer's cart. As a result, the driver of the cart…
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Two men named Patrick Flanagan ami William Cook, engaged in constructing a telegraph line, were struck by a train yesterday morning between…
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Robert Scott, who was admitted to the Adelaide Hospital on December 27, suffering from injuries sustained in an accident at the Port Adelaide wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Australia. Drowned in the Torrens. Adelaide
The acting coroner (Dr. Rogers) at the inquest on the body of a boy drowned in the Torrens, suggested that the police or the City Council should…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Exciting Incident at Balmain. Mother and Child Rescued From Drowning. Sydney
An exciting incident occurred yesterday morning at White Bay, Balmain. Shortly before 11 o'clock Edi Gale, an employee at the Glebe Island abattoirs,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Accident in Cape Colony. Topples Over an Embankment. Eight People Killed and 50 INJURED. [Reuter's Message.] Capetown
A train containing holiday-makers, at Cathcart (Cape Colony) toppled over an embankment yesterday. Eight people were killed and 50…
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