Miner's Accident Relief Fund
Mr. George Booth, M.L.A. has been in touch with Mr. Baddeley the Minister for Mine's, respecting an increase the M.A.R. Fund for…
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Drowning Fatality Evidence at Inquiry
An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Joseph Allen, aged 19, also known as Joseph Bourke, who was drowned in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crossing Fatality. Goods Train Strikes Cart
A level crossing fatality occurred at 4.30 a.m. at the railway crossing at Ovingham (S.A.). Harry Bertrand Dean, aged 41, a milk vendor, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Collision. Motor Cycle and Car
Whon turning a sharp corner just before reaching Iron Bark Bridge on the Maitland-road on Sunday afternoon, A. Giggins, a motor cyclist,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Boy Drowned. Disappears While Swimming in River
Joseph Bourke, 19, was drowned on Monday. The body was recovered on Tuesday evening. With three companions—Gregory…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Detonator Explodes Truck Driver Terribly Injured
A detonator exploded in the pocket of G. A. Mont, a motor truck driver, at Swan Hill (Vic.) His hands were blown off and his stomach and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Constable Injured Motor Smash Near Wingham
Constable Wright of Mount George, near Wingham, had a sensational experience while driving a motor car along the road between Wingham and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Touched Live Wire. Sewer Miner Severely Injured
Coming in contact with a live electric wire while at work in a sewer shaft, in Rookwood-road, Bankstown, Donald Bullen (33), miner, of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boating Tragedy Three Drowned at Tuggerah. Five Survivors. SYDNEY
A boat, containing four youth and four girls, was capsized at Tuggerah about midnight during a heavy storm. Three of the occupants, Eileen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Injured Workers. Cost of Hospital Treatment. Cessnock
The Board of Management of the Cessnock District Hospital, intends, as was shown is the annual report at the yearly meeting of subscribers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Injured. Bus Caught Between Teams. Smash at Newtown
A Cronulla motor bus travelling along King-street, Newtown, towards Sydney shortly before 9 o'clock last night was caught between two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Skull Injured. Alleged Use of Hammer. Kurri Case. Kurri
Michael Stanley ("Wafer") Mor oncy, 32, a partial cripple, was again before the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day, when the hearing was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shooting Accident. Boy's Arm Blown Off
A shooting accident occurred at Clearfield, near Rappville. Two boys were out shooting when one noticed a kangaroo. He raised his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crushed to Death. Accident at Broken Hill
George Malvern Reynolds, aged 36, married, was killed at the Zinc Corporation's works. Broken Hill, on Tuesday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shooting Accident. Young Man's Narrow Escape
When in the act of fretting through a fence, a double-barrelled gun which be was carrying exploded and the charge carried away portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →One Killed. Accident at Mine. Sydney
The Commissioner of Police received a telegram from Emmaville to-day, statins that in an accident at the Loch Sloy mine, one man had…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Four Injured. Motor Oars in Collision
Two motor cars collideed at Went-Worthville, late on Sunday afternoon, and as a result four persons were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Injured. Terrific Motor Collision. Motor and Side Car in Flames
On Sunday morning at Cheltenham (vic), three persons were critically injured, when a motor cyclo and sidecar burst into flames, following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Drowned. a Yarra Tragedy. Father's Ordeal
A tragedy occurred at Abbotsford. (Vic.) on Friday afternoon, when three children, who had been playing on the bank of the Yarr, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Car Crashes. Down Precipitous Hillside. One Killed: Two Injured
When a motor car crashed 80 feet through undergrowth and scrub covering a precipitous hillside of one of the fern gullies in the Selby district…
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