Live Wire Two Firemen Injured
Two firemen were injured while on duty last night at a fire in Clarendon Street South Mclbourne, when a live electric wire came into contact with…
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Premature Explosion Road Ganger Injured
W. Chectham, aged 44 years a ganger employed by the Main Roads Board and a married man, living at Catherine Hill Bay was engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision the Rockhampton Mail (By Telegraph.) Brisbane
The mail train from Rockhampton collided with a stationary goods train at Palm Woods at 4 o 'clock this morning. The passengers were hurled about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Emery Wheel Three Workmen Injured (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Three workmen named William M'Kay, Thomas Chapman, and Bert Johnson received injuries this morning at the engineering works of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck a Cow. Airman's Remarkable Escape Victorian Accident
A remarkable escape from injury was the good fortune of Flying-cadct Knox knight, an air force pilot in training from the Point Cook Flying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jumped the Rails. Tram at McMAHON'S Point Accident Near Scene of Previous Disaster Sydney
A crowded tram car jumped the rails at McMahon's Point this morning about one hundred yards from the scene of a former disaster in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Toll. Storms and Accidents. Deaths in United States. Newyork, Sept. 8
Storms and drownings and automobile and train accidents took heavy toll during the United States celebration of Labour Day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to Mr Fihelly Knocked Down by Motor Car (By Telegraph.) Brisbane
Mr Fihelly, formerly Treasurer in the Queensland Government, and also Agent-General for that State, was knocked down by a motor car at…
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A sensational motor car smash occurred in Cessnock-street, Kurri, about 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning, when a motor car, driven by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Injured
Joseph Clyne, 3 years of age, of Catherine-street, West Maitland, received a fracture of the right leg and a probable fracture of the ribs,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Collision. the Rockhampton Mail
The mail train from Rockhampton collided with a stationary goods train at Palm Woods at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning. The passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twice in a Month. Man Rescued From Drowning
When he dived from the rails of Jervoy Bridge and rescued Robert Hunter, Mr. A. W. McCawley, licensee of the Club House Hotel, Adelaide,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Injured. Sensational Accident at Newcastle. Car Brings Down Verandah Newcastle
A sensational accident occured at the corner of Hunter and Market Streets shortly before 9 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Still Unconscious. Injured Girl Identified. Sydney
The girl who was found seriously injured on the railway line near Lakemba yesterday morning has been identified as Sadie Harper, 18, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forty Drowned. Baltic Steamer Founders. Believed to Have Struck Mine
A message from Riga states that the coaster Neibade was wrecked in the Baltic, and thirty passengers and ten of the crew drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Shot. Man's Desperate Act. Victims Badly Injured. Bundaberg
A shocking affair occurred to-night when George Fountaine, ,aged 27 years, shot his wife, aged 26, his two daughters, Jean, aged 5…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatally Injured. Accident at Steel Works
Through a staging upon which he was working turning over Thomas Richardson a tinsmith, employed by the Steel Works, fell a distance of 45…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collision with a Bull
A young man named Richard Pearce, of Ravensworth, met with a rather peculiar and painful accident on Wednesday, which necessitated his being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Launch Swamped. Two Men Drowned
A fishing launch was swamped in attempting to enter Raogitikel Heads, and the occupants, William Samson, contractor, and Thomas Geertson,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Collision. Motor Cycle and Tram
Edward Samuel O'Brien (24), of Marrickville, was killed on Saturday through a collision between the motor cycle he was riding and a…
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