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, 1906

474 stories in Murray's papers · page 24 of 24

Accident to the Dreadnought

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 December 1906 · page 2

The battleship Dreadnought twice bumped heavily against the Caisson Sill lock entrance at Portsmouth basin starting some of the plates and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Cablegrams. Boat Accident at Portsmouth. Seven Bluejackets Missing. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 December 1906 · page 2

A naval cutter conveying a number of seamen ran foul of a buoy in Portsmouth Harbour yesterday and was capsized…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Drowning Fatality

The Independent · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last there were central expressions of regret when it was learned that the only son of Mr. Harry Timms, a well-known local resident, had…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

An Unexplained Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 33

An unexplained fatality happened on Friday night at Pelaw Main Colliery. John Henry Hallam, 16, a wheeler, was driving a horse and two skips. When on the flat…

Continued on Trove, page 33 →

Terrible Street Accident. Run Down by Motor Fire-engine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 43

A shocking accident occurred in the principal thoroughfare of Wellington (N.Z.) on Monday afternoon. When Mrs. Kensington, the wife of Mr. W. C. Kensington,…

Continued on Trove, page 43 →

A Peculiar Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 3

A horse and waggon belonging to the Farmers and Dairymen's Milk Supply Co., fell into about 30ft of water this morning at Miison's Point, and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Accident to a Horse

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 5

On Friday while Dr. J. R. Harris's groom was trying to catch the doctor's trotting mare, which was running in a paddock adjacent to the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Sad Drowning Case Boy Drowned in a Tank

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 2

A sad drowning case was reported to the police on Monday afternoon. Two boys named Arthur Cyril Timms and Edward Murray Holy, both nine years of age had…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Railway Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 December 1906 · page 4

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner to day at the inquiry into the death of Richard Jonathan Armstrong…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Victoria. Melbourne, Saturday. a Street Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 24 December 1906 · page 4

Robert Layton. 13 years of age who resides in Park-street Glenferne. and who is employed by Mr. Walter a local baker, fell from a delivery…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Cadet Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 December 1906 · page 3

The inquest at Queenscliff to-day disclosed that the naval cadet Emil Cedzich, who succumbed during a bathing parade at Swan Island, died not from…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Found Drowned

The Independent · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 2

The Coroner (Mr F. W. GarataDg. P.M) received information un Saturday from Sergeant Smith at Moama that a man had been found drowned about 30 miles down the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

WALWA. Wednesday. a Series of Accidents

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 2

Last Thursday Mr. Harry Murray met with a fatal accident. He was getting on his huggy mare to ride home with a parcel when she took…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Accident

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 3

Mr. W. R. Yules, our aerated waters manufacturer, met with an accident while going his rounds on last Friday morning. He was…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

[?] Peculiar Accident. in a Jewellery Store

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 2

Early on Monday afternoon, when the [?]upply stores in Bundle-street, Adelaide, were filled with a holiday crowd the whole of the shelving on one side of the establishment from…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →