Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Accidents, all years

Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

505 stories in Murray's papers · page 22 of 26

Accident at Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 October 1904 · page 3

A fatality occurred at the Broken Hill Proprietary mine this morning, when Charles Castle, 45 years, a surface hand, was run over by an empty…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Serious Accident to the Duke of Connaught. His Motor Car Wrecked. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 October 1904 · page 2

The Duke of Connaught has had a miraculous escape from being killed in a motor ear. His car was completely wrecked by colliding, at night, with a…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Peculiar Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 October 1904 · page 2

Whits engaged in the task of branding a steer last week Mr. O. Robinson, junr., of Wahgunyah, met with internal injuries which necessitated medical attendance…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Terrible Mining Fatality

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 19 October 1904 · page 4

The fire is still raging in the Brilliant Mine, Charters Towers. Five bodies so far have been recovered, including that of Jordan, who had gone down to relieve his…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Accidents to Torpedo Boats. Three Suffer in Collisions

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 October 1904 · page 3

The two British Torpedo bent destroyers Boxer (27 knots, Captain S. H. Tennyson, stationed at Malla) and Ardent (stationed at Gibraltar)…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Tram Accidents in the City

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 October 1904 · page 3

As a result of tram accidents, no fewer than four persons were treated at the hospitals' yesterday. None of the accidents, however, proved to be of a…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fatal Riding Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 October 1904 · page 2

Mr. Basil C. Brown, a well-known farmer and horse-breeder, the owner of Trentmoor, died at the Westho Nursing Home, Wagga, last Wednesday morning…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 October 1904 · page 2

During the performance by the bands on the Mulwala sandhills on Sunday afternoon a number of children were swinging on a projecting time of a fallen…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fatality to a Horseowner

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 October 1904 · page 4

Mr. Basil C. Brown, a well-known farmer and horse breeder, the owner of Trentmoor, died at the Westho Nursing home on Wednesday last as the result of an accident…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

British Steamer Injured by a Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 October 1904 · page 2

A floating mine struck the British steamer Tashing while off the Shantung Peninsula. The explosion tore off ton feet from…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Missing Yachting Party. Feared That All Are Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 October 1904 · page 39

Anxiety exists at Fremantle (W.A.) as to the fate of six persons, who left on Sunday in the yacht Thelma for Garden Island on a fishing excursion, with the…

Continued on Trove, page 39 →

"Merely a Fatal Accident."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 October 1904 · page 2

The Bourse "Gazette" of St. Petersburg declares that the affair was merely a fatal accident to which every fleet is liable…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Dro[?]ning Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 November 1904 · page 2

Last Friday, at noon, a little boy named [?]sert Allan Smith, aged five years, was accidentally drowned in a waterhole near his parents' residence, at…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Serious Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 November 1904 · page 2

Miss Jackson, of Mulurulu, whilst driving into town in a 'Shanghai' on Friday from Paika was, through a sudden jolt of the trap, thrown out, and seriously injured…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fatal Accident at Tumut. Thursday, November 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 17

A drowning accident occurred at 7 o'clock last night at Guy's Crossing, West Blowering, 15 miles from Tumut. John James Bannock, mail carrier between…

Continued on Trove, page 17 →

Accident to President Roosevelt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 2

President Roosevelt, while riding near Washington yesterday, was thrown from his horse. He sustained a scalp wound and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Cablegrams. General Cables. London, Saturday. Collision at Sea

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 November 1904 · page 2

The steamer Gironde and Schiaffini came into collision yesterday near the fortified seaport town of Bona in Algeria. The steamer Gironde sank (Bona, the scene of the collision, is a bay near the month of the river Sebus, 220 miles west of Tunis)…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fatal Shooting Accident. Thought It Wasn't Loaded

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 November 1904 · page 3

A sad and serious shooting fatality occurred this morning at the Government Baths in the Domain, when a boy named Harold Nightingale met a…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Accident at Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 November 1904 · page 3

A fatal accident occurred this afternoon in the Proprietary mine. Broken Hill. The victim was James Mott, who, with others, was engaged firing…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. a Boy Drowned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 November 1904 · page 3

The district coroner held an investigation this morning concerning the death of the little boy Alexander Anderson, who was drowned in the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →