Motor Accidents. Moke Week-end Fatalities. Brothers Killed
Touring mountainous country, 107 miles out from Orbost (Vic.), on Sunday, a car, in which two brothers, Wilham Ellis (32),…
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Unusual Accident. Racehorse Wedged Between Rails. Sydney
A filly, which, took charge of her rider at Kensington racecourse this morning, dashed into a narrow space whore two tracks met, and became…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Snapped in a Tunnel Another Drawbar Accident
Passengers were tosed from their scats, and women fainted, when the drawbar of a carriage, of a train bound from Hawkesbury to Sydney snapped…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Driver Arrested. Motor Car Collision
At daybreak on Saturday a sedancar, driven by a young man, Percival Monkivitch, swerved into a telegraph pole on the side of Pakington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Drowned. Tasmania N Fatalities
Two fatalities occurred in Tasmania on Saturday afternoon. Vivian Walsh, 17, while bathing got out of his depth, and failed to come to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Speedway Collision Lamont Has Narrow Escape
W. Lamont had a narrow escape at the Speedway Royal, Sydney, when he and J. Datson came into collision in the semi-finals of the motor cycles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dynamite Explodes. Fisherman Fearfully Injured
While fishing off Doubleful Island at Breme Bay, between Albany and Esperance, Ednic Hassell, of Jarramonguy, suffered terrible injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electrical Burns. Four Linesmen Injured
Four linesmen employed by the Adelaide Electric Supply Co received severe electrical burns while carrying out alterations to a 70CO-volt main in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Speedway Fatality. R. G. Garlick Killed at Maroubra
Travelling at a speed of more than 90 miles an hour on Maroubra Speedway on Saturday night the well known racing motorist, R. G…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Critically Injured Dived Into Shallow Water
Mistaking the depth of water in the Doma Baths, Ernest Morley, aged 21 years, a steward on the R.M.S Ormuz. dived into about 3ft of water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terribly Injured. Knocked Down by Taxi-cab
Just after alighting from a tram at Alexandria on Sunday afternoon. George Prumridge, aged 13, of Lawrence street, Alexandria, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newsboy Injured. Knocked Off Tram, Sydney
A boy, whose name is believed to be Edgar Eastman, was selling newspapers on the wrong side of a tram at Randwick, when he was knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Manly Mishap. Ferris Wheel Accident
Patrons of the large Ferris wheel at the Manly jubilee carnival on Saturday night had an exciting experience when the steel cable slipped from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunting Accident. to Prince of Wales. London, Jan. 7
The Prime of Wales met with an accident while hunting with the Quorn at Melton Mowbray. His horse stumbled when taking off a a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning Accidents at Launceston
Launceston experienced two accidents on Saturday afternoon. Vivian Walsh, 17, while bathing got out of his depth and failed to come to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boy Drowned. a Skiff Swamped
Harold C. Filgate (7) was drowned at Beauty Point, Launceston, when the wash from the steamer Nairana upset a skiff in which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maroubra Fatality B. G. Garlick Killed
Travelling around the track at Maroubra Speedway on Saturday night at more than 90 miles an hour, a motor car driven, by R. G. (Phil) Garlick, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sea Gives Up Dead Tasmanian Fatality Hobart
A headless body from which one foot is also missing was washed ashore at Letts Bay. It was identified from a note found in the vest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bride Injured. Wedding in Hospital. Motors Collide
Rarely are two cars soon together in one street in Benalla (Vic.) a quiet country town, but on Saturday a taxicab, convoying a bridal party to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Derailed. Accident to Forbes Mail. Near Parkes
Disaster almost overtook the Forbes mail train while it was travelling between Parkes and Tichborne, when eight trucks and two carriages left…
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