Eight Drowned When Steamer Hit Mine
LONDON, April 14.—The British steamer Viceroy (824 tons) hit a mine and sank off the Dutch coast. Eight British seamen, including the…
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Dash to Aid Injured Footballers
CAIRNS, Monday.—A doctor made a 60-miles an hour dash by car over rough roads after a radio call to help seven members…
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Singleton District Ambulance Service treated 10 accident victims last month, it was reported to the monthly meeting of the committee on…
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LONDON, April 15. — A hole three fe[?] in diameter was made above the waterline in the hull of the battleship HMS Nelson when…
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LITHGOW : A soldier Cyril Smith, had his hands severely injured what is believed to have been a small shell exploded while…
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Jennifer Scrimes, 14 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Scrimes, of Awaba, and formerly of Muswellbrook was killed…
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Following an accident on Easter Monday night, when a car driven by Stanley Jones collided with a truck on Kennedy's Hill…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A Newcastle castle man fireman on the crew Adelaide Steamship Co.’s steamer, Dilga hearing cries for…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When a boiler exploded at a laundry at Campals, two people were inured…
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When two cars came into collision at the intersection of John and Campbell Streets, near Dunolly Bridge, at about 3 o'clock yesterday…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Injured by a flying winch handle two men lay without aid, in a 66ft. fishing launch for 24 hours in stormy seas some miles off Moreton island. They were rescued by the pilot ship john Oxley…
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SINGLETON, Thursday.—Mr. Wal Parr, an employee of Lancaster’s motor garage, had stitches inserted in his forehead when he…
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Jack Hodges, [?] of 77 Carrington-street. Horseshoe Band, a miner employed at Kent Colliery. Berea[?] suffered a…
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NEWCASTLE: Falling off the footboard of a tram in Maitland-road, Islington, to-day, Andrew Lumaden, 26, of Lambton-road,…
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Alan Bristow, 30, of Adam-street, East Greta, received contusions and lacerations to the back and shock when he was…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Albert Bates, High-street, Cessnock, a shiftman, employed at Abermain No, 2 colliery, while working at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Texas City Almost Wrecked By Terrific Explosions Dead Placed At About 1200 And Injured At Over 3000
NEW YORK, April 17—An official report places the death roll in a series of explosions which almost wrecked Texas City, as around 1200. The disaster, which followed an explosion in a ship carrying fertilisers, is rated America’s greatest…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — Road acidents in the Newcastle City area last year were almost double the number which had…
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A motor cyclist, Rex Brown, 48, of 10 Newcastle-st., Hamilton, received extensive contuslone to the left ankle, general abrasions…
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Cross-actions arising from a collision between a motor bus and car in High-st., West Maitland, on October 12, were heard…
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