A Boating Fatality. Bank Clerk Drowned. Melbourne
Eric Sinnott (21), a bank clerk, was boating with two companions at Brighton Beach (Victoria) on Saturday, when an oar fell overboard. He jumped out…
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Accidents, 1912
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Railway Accident at Paris. Train Collides with Engine. Fifty-three People Injured. [Reuter's Message.] Paris
An electric workmen's train at the Gare du Auterlitss (Paris) collided today with a stationary engine, and seven conches were wrecked. One…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Browned in Hobson's Bay. in Collision Between Cutter and Steamer. Coronial Inquiry. Melbourne
A coronial inquiry was held to-day into the death of Ernest Hutton, who belonged to the training ship, John Murray, and was drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accid Ent at the Proprietary Mine. Miner Injured by Fall of Ground
Through some ground having fallen at the 500ft. level of the Proprietary mine this morning Mr. T. Doyle, a miner, sustained a fracture of the left…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sensational Aeroplane Smash. Collision with Railway Signal Post. During Flight From Penrith to Parramatta. Sydney
A sensational smash occurred as Mount Druitt this morning to Mr. W. E. Hart's aeroplane. Mr. Hart, with Major Rosenthal,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Millers' and Mill Union. Sick and Accident Fund Scheme. Sydney
A scheme for a sick and incident fund in the Millers' and Mill Union, without an extra contribution, is being drawn up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Slight Collision of Warships. London
A strong tide nt Portsmouth to-day drove H.M.S. Revenge against H.M.S. Orion's port quarter. The Orion is apparently undamaged, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Nearly Drowned. Bathing in Port Adelaide Canal. Adelaide
With several other boys, Alexander Govett, was batbing in the Port Ade laide caual this afternoon, when he suddenly disappeared beneath the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured in a Brawl. Inquest at Jamestown. Adelaide
At the adjourned inquest, held at Jamestown yesterday, on the body of John Erwin, who on December 20 succumbed to injuries sustained in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drowned in Torrens Lake. Verdict at Inquest. Adelaide
The Adelaide coroner has been unusually busy of late making investigations into cases of drowning in Torrens Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Collision in America, St. Joseph (Missouri)
The Rock Island passenger train was wrecked at Peatt River (Missouri), to-day, in a collision with a freight train. The death roll is unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fremantle Fatality. Perth
Joseph Barnes was yesterday found lying on the ground unconscious at the boat slip. Victoria Quay Fremantle, and conveyed to the hospital sufforing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Run Over by a Trolly. a Lad Injured
A lad, named John Williams, residing at the corner of Jamieson and Central streets, South Broken Hill, when riding a bicycle up Oxide-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident at the Proprietary Mine
Mr. S. Castles, who is employed as a mason on the Proprietary mine, fell from a staging while working to-day, and was removed to his residence in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Supposed Drowning Case. Mysterious Disappearance of a Man. Melbourne
On Sunday at 1.30 a.m. Malcolm M'Leod, the lighterman in charge of the lighter Sapphire, which was lying at the Footscray wharf, rushed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drowned Whilst Motoring on Ice. New Jersey
Two men and three women were drowned whilst motoring on an icecovered stream at Trenton, New Jersey, to-day The ice broke The third…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Railway Fatality. Man's Body Found on Line. Sydney
The dead body of Henry West (54), a single man, who resided with his brother-in-law (John William Evans) at Kogarah, was found on the line,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Collision in Puget Sound. Tacoma
The British steamer Strathalbyn, bound to Australia, collided in Puget Sound to-day with the steamer Flyer. The Strathalbyu's bow was badly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Collision in Puget Sound. Later Particulars. [Reuter's Messages.] Tacoma
A sailor on the Strathalbyn was killed in the collision of that steamer with the Hawaiian steamer Virginian in Puget Sound, not the steamer Flyer, as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Covered in Skimps. a Ganger Injured on the South Dumps
Mr. Sidney Rolf, a ganger, when preparing a hole for firing down a face on the South mine dump this morning, was almost smothered through the…
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