Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Accidents, all years

Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,225 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 62

Pedestrian Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 2

Edwin George Lane, of 150 Cornishstreet, Railway Town, was knocked down and injured by a motor car at 12.30 o'clock yesterday morning. It is…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fall From Ferry Youth Drowned Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 1

A youth named Sydney Nicholls fell from the Stockton ferry this afternoon and was drowned. The strong current swept Nicholls away before a…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Victorian Railway Collision Express and Pilot Engine Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 1

Two engines and a carriage were derailed at Seymour last night when the Sydney express collided with a pilot engine which was shouting in…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Boy Drowned in the Swan Two Others Missing Perth

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 4

A crabbing party in the River Swan at Victoria Park last night had tragic consequences. Lloyd George Harding (aged 11 years) was drowned. Two…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Plane Forced Down Nobody Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 1

A message received at Sydney late this afternoon states that the National Airways 'plane Southern Sky, while on its maiden voyage from [?] to…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Level Cr0ssing Disaster Near Wivenhoe, Tasmania Turee Dead, Four Injured Burnie (Tas.)

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 2

Three persons were killed and four injured in one of the worst level crossing smashes in the history, of Tasmania, which occurred at a crossing…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Panic in Paisley Theatre 80 Children Dead; Over 100 Injured Film on Fire in Cinema Theatre Victims Asphyxiated by Fumes (Special to "The Miner."). London. December 31

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 1

About 80 children lost their lives following a panio in a Paisley cinema theatre this afternoon. Many others were injured, and more than 10O are…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Fatality 0N Steamer Fall Down Companion Way Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 1

Falling down a companion way on the steamer Katoomba while at sea at 11 o'clock last night Percy Scott, single (43), electrical engineer,…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Motor Car Somersaults Two Occupants Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 1

A single-seater motor car skiuded and somersaulted on Prince's Highway, three miles from Moruya, yesterday. The occupauts, E. S. Duckett…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Mine Worker Injured

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

J. Debono was strack in the eye by a scat when he was working at the British mine lest night. He was taken in the ambulance to the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mine Worker Injured

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

J. Debono was struck in the eye by a scat when be was working at the British mine last night. He was taken in the ambulance to the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Burning Fatality Boy the Victim Melboure

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 1

Max Schneider (13), of Coburg, died in hospital to-day from burns suffered yesterday. He and his brother Douglas (7) found a box of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Drowned in Reservour Comments by Corner Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

The Parramatta coroner was surprised to learn yesterday during the hearing of an inquiry that during the past 12 months twn men drowned…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Drowned in Reservoir Comments by Curoner Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 1

The Parramatta coroner was surprised to learn yesterday daring the hearing of an inquiry that during the past 13 months two men drowned…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Motor Lorry Fatality a Child the Victim Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 1

Mary Jane Lonsdale (3). of Cardiff, was killed yesterday when a motor lorry driven by her father pinned her against a polo outside her home…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Explosion in Locomotive Engine Crew Injured Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

As a result of an explosion in the firebox of the engine of a train travelling between Jeparit and Rainbow the driver and fireman suffered alight…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Explosion in Locomotive Engine Crew Injured Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

As a result of an explosion in the firebox of the engine of a train travelling between Jeparit and Rainbow the driver and fireman suffered slight…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Late Cable News Disastrous Cinema Fire. Sixty-Nine Children Perish—Many Injured

Western Grazier · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

London, Jan. 1.—Sixty-Nine children lost their lives and 37 were injured on New Year's Eve, in the worst cinema disaster in the history of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

10 Boys Are Drowned While Skating in Sweden Ice Broke on a River (Special to "The Miner"), [?]

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 1

Ten-boys lost then lives in a skating disaster in Filian River in Sweden The ice broke, and the boys were precipitated into the icy waters and…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →