Motor Lorry Fire Members of Fire Brigade Injured and Drenched Sydney
An extraordinary series of accidents attended the endeavors of the firemen to extinguish a burning lorry loaded with timber near Fig Tree Bridge…
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Accidents, 1929
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Train Smash in England One Killed; 15 INJURED (Special to "The Miner.") London, January 8
A number of coaches of the L.M.S. Company's north-bound Bristol-Nottingham mail train, overturned, in a collision with a goods train at Ashchurch,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gumeracha Tragedy (Continued from Page 1.) Accidental Death Is Finding of Coroner Adelaide
An inquest was held at Gumeracha to-day into the death of George Farley, who with two others, died in a well on December 31. The coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Worker Injured
J. Tomeslich had a hand bruised by a stone which fell on it when he was working at the Central mine last night. He was taken in the ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Fatal Collision Sydney
William Maloney (19) was riding a bicycle along Miller-street. North Sydney, last night when he was knocked down by a taxicab and thrown heavily…
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While swimming in the Meadow Bank Baths, Hazel Lyon (8) took cramp and sank. Her sister, Jean Lyon (12), entered the water to save…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elephant Charges Train Attendant Is Injured Launceston
An elephant belonging to Wirth Bros.' circus charged headlong into a moving train at the crossing at Campbell Town to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Overturns on Adelaide Road Occupants Injured Adelaide
A motor car driven by Mr. Matthew Thompson, of The Grove. Dulwich, skidded and overturned on Anzac Highway last night, and the driver and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rail Motor Car Is Derailed on the Geelong Line Six Passengers Injured Melbourne
A large rail motor from Geelong, while travelling rapidly on the Geelong line about 13 miles from Melbourne, was derailed There were 17 passengerss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bathing Fatality Two Persons Drowned Auckland (N.Z.), January 9
T. B. Dillicar (50) and Clarence Hunter (18) were drowned at Kawhia while endeavoring to rescue two youths who had got into difficulties while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tennis Prominent Player Injured Sydney
L. E. Baker, one of the leading players in New South Wales, broke a bone in his foot at Rushcutter's Bay on Monday, and will not be able to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Brothers Drowned in a River of India Mother Dropped Dead on Hearing the News (Special to "The Miner.") Calcutta, January 10
Nineteen laborers were drowned in a boat disaster on the River Indus to-day. Among the victims were three brothers, whose mother, on hearing the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Boys Drowned Sons of a Clergyman Auckland (N.Z.), January 12
Two sons of the Rev. M. J. Oxbrow, of Hastings. New Zealand, aged 10 and seven years, went fishing, and failed to return. The body of the elder boy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crash of Army[?]plane Five Soldiers Are Killed and Three Are Injured Middletown (Pennsylvania) Jan. 11
Five soldiers were killed and three were seriously injured when an army transport aeroplane crashed to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowning Case Young Men at Attunga Drowned in a Creek Sydney
Gilbert Saunders (19), an English migrant employed on a farm at Attunga was drowned yesterday afternoon while bathing in Attunga Creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Persons Injured in Collision of Motor Cars Adelaide
Mostyn Skinner (26), a clerk, of Alexander-avenue, Rose Park, is in the Adelaide Hospital in a serious conditton from head injuries and a broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist Fatally Injured in Avoiding a Collision Car Over Embankment Brisbane
Chesley Stevenson, motor mechanic, when trying to avoid colliding with another motor car on Redcliffe-road yesterday, swerved to the edge of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist Fatally Injured Adelaide
George Argent (18), a farm hand, employed by H. Nitschke, of Littlehampton, when riding a motor cycle on the main north road near Stirling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Doctor Fatally Injured by Carbolic Acid Splashed Over Body and Face Wellington (N.Z.), January 14
Dr. A. Mathieson, resident woman medical officer at Gore Hospital, New Zealand, dropped a bottle of carbolic acid on Saturday. The fluid splashed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident Man Caught in Shafting at the South Mine Mill
Allen Wilford Nicholas, who resided with his parents at 115 Hebbardstreet, and who would have celebrated his 21st birthday next week, was…
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