Bathing Fatalities. Drowned at Sunday School Picnic
Within sight of several of her companions, Elsie Innocent, aged 15 years, of Edgar-street, West Footscray (Vic), was drowned in the Yarra near the…
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Destructive Bush Fire. Three Fighters Injured
A bush fire began in Mr. W. Lyle's property on the Delatite River at Howe's Creek, about 12 miles from Mansfield (Vic.) Driven by an…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Gale in Britain. Twenty Persons Killed. Injured Number 300. London, January 29
Twenty death are attributed directly and indirectly to a gale which passed over many parts of the country yesterday, and which reached a…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Many Accidents. Car Overturns
James Knapp was killed when a motor car overturned at Lilydale (Vic.) on Saturday. The driver of the car, James Tinsley, is in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Accidents Near Holbrook
Journeying to Holbrook, Mr. Sullivan, shire clerk, Corryong, was driving a car, when it turned over on himself, his wife and four children. They…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Painful Accident
While Mr. Fred. Ruhe was engaged unloading a rock drill sharpening machine at the council quarry. Hurricane Hill, on Monday the machine fell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Engine Driver Injured
Mr. W. McInerney, engine driver on the 6 p.m. train to Junee, was the victim of a serious accident just an the train was about to depart from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl'6 Cry for Help Mistaken for a Joke Drowned in Front of Pals
When Valda Keating, 18, cried for help while bathing at Mildura baths, on Thursday, her friends, thinking the was Joking, paid no heed to her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowning Fatality at Toganmain An Old Employee Found in River
An elderly man named Freder[?] Cowing, aged 75, who had been employed on Toganmain Station for the past twenty-five years, where he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Men Injured with Sulphuric Acid. Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon
Three men, Thomas Cumming (23), labourer; John Blanning (22), labourer; and Charles Luckman (25), mechanic, were severely burned at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Accident a Stolen Suitcase
While being driven at a speed of thirty miles an rour, a Chevrolet car crashed into a tree on the [?] Deniliquin road last week Two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Accident. a Stolen Suitcase
Whilst being driven at a speed of thirty miles an hour, a Chevrolet car crashed into a tree on the [?] road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Toganmain Drowning Fatality
An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Frederick Cowing, whose body was found in the Murrumbidgee River at Toganmain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Plying Fatality
Flying Cadet Alexander Dix, 20, was piloting an aeroplane at Point Cook when something went wrong with the machine, which nose-dived on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Saves Drowning Friend. Kicks Off Attacking Shark
Another heroic shark rescue occurred in the river not far from Brisbane, similar in many respects to the Port Hacking tragedy of New Year's Day…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Collier Founders. Three Men Drowned
With remarkable suddenness the well-known collier Galava foundered off Terrigal early one morning. Three of the crew have been picked up dead…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Fifteen Injured at Manly
Fifteen persons were injured, three seriously, when a motor bus was jambed between two trams in Pitt water Road, Many. Those admitted…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Local & General Doctor Refused to Attend Injured Lad
William Watt, 18. Aroona Road, Canifield, a Melbourne Grammar School boy, was killed when [?] motor cycle crashed with [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Accident and a Mean Action
White being driven at a speed of thirty miles an [?] crashed trip [?] on the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams Peculiar Fatality. Sydney
Frederick Vickers, a labourer, was drowned at Lawson's Creek, six miles from Mudgee, in about three feet of water. It is surmised that…
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