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, 1912

537 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 27

A Mid-ocean Collision. When La Bourgogne Received Her Death-wound

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 6

We left New-York on the Saturday for Havre, with nearly eight hundred people on board, and of that great crowd nearly two hundred formed the…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

No Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 3

Caller (on cratches, and with a bandage over one eye): "I have come, sir, to make application for the amount due to me on my…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Cablegrams. Submarine A3. British Naval Collision. Fourteen Men Drowned. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 February 1912 · page 2

A naval disaster, involving shocking loss of life, occurred to-day, off the Isle of Wight. Preliminary to assembling the fleet to…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Bather Badly Injured. Inglewood

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 February 1912 · page 2

Mr. Vernon Wright, a wellknown resident of Bridgewater North, when bathing in the Loddon, strack his head against the bottom of the river, and sustained…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

News From America. Ice Bridge Breaks. Four Persons Drowned. Niagara Falls

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 February 1912 · page 2

A sensational accident, attended with fatal results, occurred here yesterday. In consequence of the mild weather prevailing an ice bridge which had formed…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Motor Accident. Adjourned inquiry

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 February 1912 · page 4

An adjourned Coronial inquiry was continued at Moulamein before Mr John Kelly, J.P., Acting Coroner, touching the cause of death of Thomas…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Barnawartha Railway Fatality. Magisterial Inquiry

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 2

An inquiry was held by Mr. J. R. W. Whitehead, J.P., at the Indigo Hotel, Barnawartha, yesterday, into the deaths of Thomas Brierley and Charles Fletcher,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Terrible Railway Fatality. Two Rutherglen Residents Killed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 5

A railway accident of a sensational nature, involving the death of two men, occurred at Barnawatha on Wednesday afternoon. The up-train from Melbourne…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Steamers in Collision' in Fog Near Cape Otway. at Two O'clock in the Morning. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 3

In a dense fog which hid the approach of two vessels, a collision occurred near Cape Otway at half-past 2 o'clock this morning between the s.s. Georgic, 9603…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Cable News. Submarine Disaster. Gunboat Strikes Conning-tower. A3 Goes to the Bottom. All on Board Drowned. London, February 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 42

One of those naval disasters which periodically thrill the nation occurred off the Isle of Wight on Friday afternoon. A submarine, when travelling under water…

Continued on Trove, page 42 →

Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 5

Whilst operating a drilling machine on Monday morning, at Messrs. Henderson Bros.' harvester works, an employe named Duncan met with a…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Accident at Mulwala. Man’s Hand Terribly Crushed

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 6

An accident of a very serious character happened on Thursday at about 10.30 a.m., at Mr S. T. Bowles’ redgum sawmills, Mulwala, to a young…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Lake Cove Shark Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 February 1912 · page 3

Mackay, the young man who helped in the rescue of Morgan at Lane Core on January 26, when the monster took away Morgan's legs, has received a letter…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

News From America Accident in Mine. 62 Miners Entombed. San Francisco

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 February 1912 · page 2

Further details of the sensational mining accident which occurred at the Bunker's Hill mine, near Amador City, were published yesterday…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Miner Seriously Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon Carl. Butcher, while working at Rutherglen a cooperative mine on his own property, met with a serious accident. He was…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 3

On Wednesday evening, whilst returning home from Yarrawonga, a man named George Crawford, employed as a cook by Mr. D. Naughtin, of…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Motor Car Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 3

Charles Faulkner, who was injured by a motor car recently on Brookvile road, died in the Manly Hospital last night. It is believed that he was married…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Shooting Fatality at Ganmain. a Hay Boy Accidentally Shot

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

Word reached Hay on Tuesday to the effect that Mr Bert Burman, third son of Senior-constable and Mrs Burman, of Hay, had been accidentally shot in the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Serious Accident. Horse Killed

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 3

On Thursday evening last Mr Harry Thomas was driving his team of horses towards Tocumwal, when a motor car overtook him and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Driving Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 5

Whilst driving home to Howlong from Corowa on Sunday evening last in a sulky, Mr. Gregory and his son Gordon together with Mrs. S. Smith, had a…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →