Wife Did Not Return; Found Drowned
PERTH, Tuesday.—max lines, of William Street, Perth, reported to Highgate Hill police at 6.45 a.m. yesterday that his wife had gone for a…
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Accidents, 1940
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Floods After Quake Many Drowned In Turkey ISTANBUL, January 1
DISASTROUS floods, causing the loss of-many lives, have followed the Turkish earthquake, which occurred…
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BENDIGO, Wednesday.—While directing traffic in McCrse Street when other firemen were fighting a grass fire near by, Captain T. R. J…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Three riders, including a South Australian were injured, one seriously, and another was disqualified for a month, in…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Margaret Spencer, eight months, was killed.and her parents, sister, and two other persons were injured in a head-on…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Howard Gray (30), of Brighton, was drowned while trying to save Miss Elsebe Puls, of Horsham. He swam 300 yards to…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—Two of three young men who walked into a trap while inspecting some ringbarking on a property at Kumbarila,…
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There men who were injured by falls of stone or timber were treated at the Hospital today. They were later taken to their homes in the…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—Perched on top of a retort nearly 50ft. high, Harry Phillipson, an employee at the Glen Davis oil shale works, was…
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THREE shipping disasters during the week end were the sinking of the British patrol trawler…
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MOUNT GAMBIER, Wednesday.— While his wife watched helplessly from the shore. Neville Ellison-Rowe, aged 27 years, a fisherman, was…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.) Tuesday.— After it had caught fire at 500 feet a Vickers Vincent three-seater bombing plane crashed near Blenheim and…
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Knocked to the roadway by a motor cyclist Mrs. T. Osborne, of 292 Sulphide Street, was admitted to Ward 2 late last night suffering from…
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LONDON, January 11.—Seventy people were injured last night when a railway station lift crashed at Birkenhead, and two electric trains…
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WHEN a motor-car carno into collision with a stationary "motor lorry in front of Pellew and Moore's Blende Street shop last night the…
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ORANGE, Saturday—The Coroner (Mr. Thompson) has announced his finding on the inquiry into the death of Mrs. Mary Agnes Tonkirig (46),…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Three people were drowned in Sydney over the week-end in different localities. They were Richard Newing (21), engineer;…
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THE yacht Ngahuia was wrecked at Matakana Island in a fierce gale yesterday morning, and of a crew of five only one was…
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THE tragic story of a man's decision to drown rather than suffer mutilation caused by an explosion has been told by the…
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WITH only an oar to help him to stay afloat, David Wilbur Ham, 13, of Williams Road, Toorak, was lost in the bay of…
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