Head-on Collision. Railway Smash in Victoria
A head-on collision occurred at Droulin (Vic.) on the main Gippsland line, between a passenger train travelling from Warragul to…
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Motor Fatality. Broker Charged with Manslaughter. Sydney
At the Paddington Police Court to-day, David Shaw Anderson, 43, a broker, was charged with having slain ANnie Peirson, 82, a widow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Constables Injured. Motor Smash Near Lithgow
Two police constables were injured when they were thrown from a motor car while rounding a bend in the roadway near Lithgow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Explosions in House. Man Terribly Injured
A dreadful spectacle met onlookers who rushed out to see a fire that had broken out early on 9th instant in a cottage occupied by a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Train Smash in Victoria Eleven Persons Injured
A train, smash occurred in Victoria on Wednesday night, when the 8 p.m. Warragul up train crashed into a shunting goods engine outside Drouin station at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Killed. Five Persons Injured. Motor Car Overturns
A motor car containing Mr. and Mrs. Burchett, of Brighton, Barker-road, South Kensington, and their family, overturned on the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Workmen Injured. Police Falls on Them. Sydney
George Simmons, 52, and John Monico, 54, were working on the Orient Company's wharf at Woolloomooloo to-day, when a pole, 15 feet long, fell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Constables Injured While. Searching for Gipsies. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Constables Tuckwell and Ledger were travelling down the Blue Mountainsroad 10-day, in search of a wandering band of gipsies, when their motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gar Somersaults and Plunges Into Creek. Five Persons Injured. GOULBURN
Five persons were injured when a mtor car, driven by Arthur Thorne, plunged into a creek on the Bungonia road during the week-end…
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A terrible injury was sustained by Ernest Winter, 30 years of age, a resident of Wakefield. Newcastle district. when he was riding a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crushed by Log. Fatal Accident Near Wingham
A fatal accident accident occurred on Monday morning at Elands, near Wingham, when a young man named William Curry lost his life through a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Peculiar Accident Wheeler Kicked by Horse. Cessnock
Robert George, a wheeler, employed at Aberdare Central Colilery met with an unusual accident in the colliery last evening…
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Mr. Nicholas Kirkwood, secretary of the Kuril May Day committee, who was injured in Stanford Merthyr coliery for the second time in about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electrified Roof. Boy Killed: Brother Injured
Two little boys, sons of Salvatore Plano, a Greek fruiterer, of Fremantle, climbed on to the roof of some unoccupied premises on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harbours Collision. Pilot Tender Badly Damaged. Sydney
A collision occurred in Sydney Harbour between the vehicular ferry Kudumba and the pilot Tender Sol. The latter was badly damaged, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fell Thirty Feet. Labourer Seriously Injured. Sydney
Harry Keating, 37, a labourer, was seriously injured when he fell a distance of thirty feet at David Jones' new premises at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Electric Shocks Boy Killed, Brother Injured
Two little boys, sons of Salvatore Piano, a Greek fruiterer, of Fremantle (W.A.)., climbed on-to the roof of some unoccupied premises on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forest Fire in Japan 200 Fighters Injured Tokio
Two hundred Japanese have been injured while fighting the forest fires that are raging in the hills around Kobe, including the famous holiday resort of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell Thirty Feet Laborer Seriously Injured. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Harry Keating, 37 years of age, a laborer, was seriously injured when he fell a distance of 30 feet at David Jones's now premises, corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Injured. Motors in Collision. Crushed Against Light Standard
A motor car containing five members of a family was completely wrecked in Normanby-road, Malvern, Vic., on Tuesday afternoon by being…
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